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I think probably a local preachers meeting of some sort. My great grandfather William Jenkin of Sithney is I think the young man middle right and man with large moustache mid left is JH Benney of Porthleven who was Helston’s Mayor at one time and both LPs.

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)