Hollin United Methodist Free Church chapel and school, Lancashire
There is also a report of the laying of the memorial stones in the UMFC Magazine
The memorial stone was laid on Saturday June 10th, 1882. The congregation processed from their old chapel, Scout Bottom, Newchurch to the new site on Shawclough Road led by the Water brass band. The new chapel was to be 60 feet by 40 feet, and would accommodate 210 adults, with space for 129 scholars in the Schoolroom. There was land on which to build a Sunday School when required, and it would appear that this had happened by 1940.
The cost of the new building was to be £900.United Methodist Free Churches Magazine Vol.25, 1882 pp507-508
By Philip Thornborow (15/03/2025)Southport Duke Street United Methodist Free Church
In 1890 Southport, Duke Street UMFC chapel was redecorated internally at a cost of about £250. A further £700 was spent on a new organ by Foster and Andrews of Hull
Building News 5.9.1890 p.346
Are there any photographs of the interior showing the results of this work?By G W Oxley (14/03/2025)Darwen Duckworth Street United Methodist Free Church (ii)
A press report described the proposed building:
“The chapel (which is planned in the amphitheatre form) will be seated for 650 persons on one floor, and in addition there will be an organ and choir gallery for 40 persons. The schoolroom will be underneath the chapel, The entire cost will be about £4,000 and the works will be carried out from the plans and under the supervision Messrs S Hurst and G E Bolshaw, architects, of Southport.”
Building News 7.5.1886 p. 766
OS 25 inch Lancashire LXX.16, 1911
OS Town Plan of Darwen LXX.16.3 1891By G W Oxley (14/03/2025)
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Bulwell Methodist New Connexion chapel
. In 1923 the cost of construction was unknown but the organ alone had cost £400
Source
Nottinghamshire Record Office MR3/46 Special trust schedules and related papers c 1923-4, Hucknall Circuit