Leeds Ventnor Street Methodist New Connexion chapel (1872)
Leeds, Ventnor Street Methodist New Connexion Chapel, Yorkshire
By 1901 £3300 had been spent on the original construction and subsequent enlargement of the chapel and school. A further £150 had been spent on purchasing an organ ot other musical instrument. The chapel seated 500 and the school 300
Sources
Methodist New Connexion: Returns of Trust Estates as presented in Special Schedules, January 1901 Leeds District, Leeds CircuitBy G W Oxley (29/04/2026)Leeds Woodhouse Lane Methodist New Connexion Church
Leeds, Woodhouse Lane New Connexion Chapel was built in 1857-8 at a cost of £6000. In 1893 it was described as
A structure of brick with stone dressings in the Italian style, the principal front has a bold pediment, filled with carved foliage and scroll ornament, and contains an organ ot other musical insrument built at a cost of about £800, and a memorial window to the late Mr Alderman Marsden: there are about 1200 sittings and in the basement are schoolrooms. A Sunday school and Lecture Hall of brick with stone dressings, in a corresponding style, foundation stones of which were laid September 12th 1887, are on the north side of the chapel.
By 1901 £13.000 had been spent on the original construction and subsequent enlargement of the chapel, school, and a house. A further £800 had been spent on purchasing an organ or other musical
instrument. The chapel seated 900 and the school 350
Sources
Kelly’s Directory of Leeds, 1893 p.12
Methodist New Connexion: Returns of Trust Estates as presented in Special Schedules, January 1901 (Leeds Circuit)By G W Oxley (29/04/2026)Grindleton, Redhill Wesleyan Methodist Association chapel, Yorkshire
This building has a complex history. It was built in 1754 for the Inghamites, another branch of the eighteenth century Evangelical revival. Benjamin Ingham (1712 – 1772) was a fellow member of the Holy Club at Oxford with the Wesley brothers and George Whitfield. He accompanied John Wesley to Georgia in 1735 and, like Wesley, was influenced by the Moravians. Like the Wesleys and Whitfield he broke with the Church of England and set up his own denomination, who were mainly based in the Pennines.
Roddel (more recently known as Rod Hill) was an Inghamite chapel from 1754 to 1837, and was taken over by the Wesleyan Methodist Association in 1844. The Ordnance Survey were clearly not informed.
As can be seen, the chapel was rather remote, and it was replaced in 1862 by the Free Methodist chapel at Grindleton.
Grid reference SD761479
Reference
Thomson, Robert Walker Benjamin Ingham (The Yorkshire Evangelist) and The Inghamites. Kendal (1958). p. 94By Philip Thornborow (13/04/2026)
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