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Has it been demolished? I haven’t been past it for a while but I thought it was still there?
what is its post code M26???
I would like to contact Stephen Wild as it’s possible that my mother, Mrs Beatrice Maud Smith, stayed in or near St Sdewell’s Wesleyan church during the war – probably in 1941. She would have been escaping from the war in London, where she attended the Barnwell Road Mission when I was a child. I was born 29/04/1942. My brother Roy was born 02 or 04/ 1940.
Lincolnshire Archives : Wesleyan, Alford. ref. Meth/B/Alford/W/H and W/A/1/2, baptisms, 1837-1889, one burial 1845. Preachers plans.
Wesleyan, ref. Meth/B/Alford, preaching plans, 1819-1930s, then to 1940.
ref. Meth/C//Alford, West Street, Wesleyan Chapel. Wesleyan Society formed in 1780, first Chapel built on Chapel Street, Alford in 1819, closed with opening of West Street Chapel in 1865.
ref. ML187639, former Wesleyan Chapel, Chapel St., Alford. It when closed became a Masonic Hall. It had when Wesleyan an associated preacher’s house and Sunday School.
Other documents. ……………………………….. Out of county, Leicestershire Record Office : ref. 6 D72/244, a Wesleyan Circuit plan, April to July, 1876, Alford, Lincolnshire, amongst the Timms family papers of Odstone, Leicestershire.
The National Archives ( former Public Record Office ) : ref. RG 4/1927, Alford, Linc’s , births/marriages/deaths, 1837-1857, civil registration of Wesleyans. ( These early civil registers at this repository ).
Leicetershire Record Office : ref. C93 .7-organ. DE4826/33, new contract, tuning etc., organ, Wesleyan Chapel, Leicester Rd., Loughborough, at £4.4/-, annual charge, 11th Jan., 1921.
O.S. Map, ref. X1.15, 25 inch scale, revised 1901, published 1903, Wymeswold, including location of Methodist Chapel and under wording thus : (Wesleyan ).
Grade 11 (2) Listed Building Status for Chapel built 1845 and School building; a former Chapel built in 1801, listed status 15th March, 1984. listed status date to include The Manor House,* Far Street, Wimeswold.
*built for Lord James Ella & Ladyship Elizabeth Ella ( maiden surname Fisher ) of Wimeswould/Wimeswold.
Leicestershire Record Office : ref. DE4463/172-78, Wymeswold Methodist Chapel, years c.1860-1976, accounts, minutes, collection journal and class books, etc. ( Wesleyan, pre- 1930s ).
Hi, my extended family on my father’s side lived and farmed around Glassonby, Glassonby Beck and the Lazonby area, I have a book that was given to my great grandfather’s cousin, Betsy Housby, in 1892 at the Sunday School Glassonby. At the time the book had been used and original name removed. The book is Fought and Won by Ruth Elliot, it’s not in the best of condition but it is complete.
If you could you send a photo of the trowel, and anything you would like to add, to wesleyanancestors@gmail.com then we’ll add it to the site. Many thanks Editors
Could you send a photo of the spade to wesleyanancestors@gmail.com then we’ll add it to the site. Many thanks Editors
I have the the spade that turned the first sod for this chapel . I believe the trowel is also in the family . It was originally turned by the then mayor of Doncaster, Arthur Smith on May 12 th 1870 according to the inscription .
Have you seen this, Robin? https://www.methodistmaidenhead.org.uk/history/
Hi, I have just come across the silver trowel that was used to lay the foundation stone in 1872 by Mr Poshill of Field Cottage, Bridlington
As I have lost contact with the family of the late Tom & Shirley Stuchbery ,whose family are in the family vaults as shown in the photo, I would like to be able find family members. Would there be any knowledge of this family so that I may contact them ? Do you have or know of someone who could follow up some research on this founding church family ? as am willing of course to pay for this service, Are there any church records of these Stuchberys and other families, I do hope you may be able help me as much as I would love to be able to travel to visit your lovely Town/City of Maidenhead. Australia has no overseas travel, and besides I maybe to old to travel ? I look forward to some contact, in the mean time Kind Regards: Robin Ephraim Stutchbury: P.S:Could some one please take a clear photo the Stuchbery Vaults and the grave marker stone on the wall as I can’t read this one because of the rose bush,I am willing to pay or donate to the Church ,TY.
Thank you for supplying this link, which gives a contemporary account of this design, and more information about the architect. You are correct, and the post has been amended.
Query: is this Cheadle Hulme or Cheadle? https://manchestervictorianarchitects.org.uk/buildings/wesleyan-chapel-cheadle describes as Cheadle
Thank you Carol Alas I do not know the answer The Methodist Church now meets in the private chapel at Much Hoole I visited and that is when I took the photo If you go there they will tell you
Glaisdale End Sunday School record. I would be interested in this, if still available. Thank you
My Grandafther Thomas Jarvis played the cornet in the Hackney Wick Wesleyan Band and was gifted an engraved KEATS Cornet in 1906. This cornet in its original case has been in my pocession since my brother died ten years ago and I have just had it overhauled by Packers of Taunton a fine wind instrument repairer and maker. The cornet is in fine working order with no repair needed in September 2021 after 115 years since manufacture and was referred to as a gem of an instrument by the repairer. (Keats is a famous victorian company which made bugles and other brass instruments and was the bugle supplier to the British and Indian Army. The Thomas Jarvis Cornet is now going to my son-in-law on the Ilse of Skye for a new history of playing to be added. I would like to be in contact with anyone who has connections to Hackney Wick Wesleyan Chapel or Casland Road Methodist Church where my Grandmother attended and my Mother Marion Ruth Jarvis played the piano fo a Sunday School which was 500 children strong. I can supply a photo of the inscription on the Cornet.
Sadly, no I didn’t, though I like to look inside closed-down chapels, even though the experience is always sad. Had the farmer been visible nearby, I would have asked. One chapel I looked in (Churton Primitive) still had the pulpit and it would have been easy to start holdings services there again. (Now it is a kitchen.)
Who are the 3 older people at the back of the photo please
Hi David, I just discovered this former Methodist chapel today whilst returning home from a day visit to North Yorkshire. Fascinating; did you by any chance have the opportunity to see inside? I wonder when it actually ceased to be a place of worship?
Regards, Michael.
Prior to 1849 the Wesleyans held their services in a Chapel located at Chapel Lane / Mary Street Haswell. As the congregation grew the building became too small, and a new Wesleyan Chapel was built by Geo. Phalp at the west end of Church Street/ junction Kingston Crescent. The chapel vacated at Mary Street by the Wesleyans was then used by the Bible Christians for their religious services. The Wesleyan chapel (1849) at the end of Church street near to the junction with Kingston Crescent was demolished in April 1990. A new chapel dedicated to Peter McKenzie was later built on the former site of the Wesleyan Chapel. The Peter McKenzie chapel was closed in 2020.
Philip Soakell
Thank you Jan. It is possible that my ancestor Thomas Parker is in the photo and he too was in the Beccles Nursing home in the 70’s! He died in 1975
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