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Huddersfield, High Street Methodist New Connexion Chapel (ii) was built of stone and completed January 1867 at a cost of £10500. By 1901 £14000 had been spent on the original construction and the subsequent enlargement of the chapel, school, a house, a shop, and a manse. A further £1200. had been spent on purchasing an organ. The chapel seated 1270 and the school 400. In 1940 there was a chapel which seated 1100 in pews, a school hall and seven other rooms .
The chapel was bult on the combined sites of the old chapel and the adjoining Crescent Inn.The front portion of the new building only occupied the centre of the site but rhe rear section was almost as wide as the site leaving only narrow passages to provide access to the school behind. This building had been enlarged (or replaced?) and was now about 50% larger than its predecessor .

Sources
White’s Directory of Leeds etc. 1876 p. 351
Methodist New Connexion: Returns of Trust Estates as presented in Special Schedules, January 1901, Huddersfield Circuit
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson Returns of Accommodation provided by Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, 1940/585 Huddersfield, High Street Circuit
OS 25 inch 1889 Yorkshire CCXLVI.15.13

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