Stonesby Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built of brick in 1885. In 1891 it provided 120 sittings. This figure had fallen to 105 by 1911. All seats were free in 1931. In 1941 the accommodation consisted of a chapel measuring 30 feet by 24 feet which seated 120 in pews and a school room 23 feet by 17½ feet which was built of stone with a brick front. This may well have been the chapel of 1847 which was located in the same area (grid ref SK823246)..
Sources
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson Returns of Accommodation provided by Wesleyan Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, Melton Circuit 1891/612, 1901/625, 1911/591, 1931/598
John Rylands Library University of Manchester DDPD2 Returns of Accommodation provided by Wesleyan Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, Melton Circuit, 1931/598
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, DDPD1 Methodist Church Buildings: Statistical returns including seating accommodation as at July 1st 1940/694 (Melton Mowbray Circuit)
OS 25 inch Leicestershire XIII.12 1902-4
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As can be seen from the photograph I have added, Stonesby is still in active use as a Methodist chapel. Had I lingered another five minutes I could have gone in for tea and cake, an essential Methodist activity.
Keith Guyler visited in 1997, and his photograph https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishmethodistbuildings/44832548192/in/album-72157701467320564/
shows that before the current entrance passage was built, the date stone and front door of the 1847 chapel were in the centre of the longer wall, at right angles to the road.
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