Scarborough, Batty Place Wesleyan Methodist Association chapel, Yorkshire
The Religious Census return in 1851 stated that the building dated to 1838, and that ongregations on March 30th 1851 were 60 in the morning, and 100 in the evening.
The National Archives HO 129/525/41It was replaced in 1860 by Claremont, Castle Road.
By Philip Thornborow (21/09/2026)Northampton Wellingborough Road Wesleyan Reform Chapel, Northamptonshire
A religious census held on Sunday November 6th, 1881 recorded that the chapel could accommodate 350 The morning services was attended by 145, with 317 attending in the evening. There were also 320 children and 23 teachers in the Sunday School on that day.
The 1851 religious census of Northamptonshire, edited by Graham S. Ward, Northampton: Northamptonshire Record Society, 2007 p231
By Philip Thornborow (18/09/2026)Bristol, Redland Grove United Methodist Free Church chapel and school
A religious census held on Sunday October 30th, 1881 recorded that 243 were present in the morning, and 219 adults in the evening.
Bristol past and present. Vol II: Ecclesiastical history (1881) p306
By Philip Thornborow (17/09/2026)
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South Shields West Holborn, New Zion Methodist New Connexion chapel
The chapel was described in The Builder, 1859 p 226 as follows:
Shields.-“The Methodist New Connection Zion Chapel, Laygate-lane, South Shields has been completed and opened. The façade stands obliquely to Laygate-lane. The architects have availed themselves of an irregularity of site to give greater apparent space in front of the chapel, as it is approached from Commercial-road. The block of buildings extends 136 feet westward, down Palmerston-street, and comprises a chapel 58 feet by 43 feet 6 inches, and 31 feet high (inside dimensions); a school-room, 45 feet by 30 feet; and three vestries, with the usual outbuildings. Over the vestry, &c. three rooms have been provided for the chapel-keeper. The walls are of brick, with Prudham stone dressings. A flat ventilating roof has been adopted, running only to two-thirds of the height that would have been required had the sides been sloped up to a ridge The principal feature of the interior is the pulpit platform. It is supported on ornamented iron columns, with pierced iron columns, forming a railing round it.
Immediately under this platform is the communion space, enclosed by polished oak rails supported on wrought-iron standards. The artificial lighting of the chapel is by means of two sunlights in the ceiling, with wall brackets under the galleries. The heating is effected by means of gas-stoves.
The chapel will accommodate nearly 700 adults, one-fourth free. The school-buildings are similar in character to the chapel-ventilation and light being primarily attended to. The height of the school is 19 feet to the wall-plate, and 25 feet to the ceiling in the centre of the room.”