Ecton Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built in 1824 (The date given in 1850 was 1839). In 1851 the chapel provided 36 free and 84 other sittings. The seating continued at roughly this level until 1940 when there were no other rooms. The chapel continued to be used as a Methodist place of worship at least until 1959 but has now been closed and appears to be in residential use. Architectural detail has largely been concealed under a coat of paint but it may be noted that the wide round arched windows are very similar to the chapel at neighbouring Great Billing
Sources
The National Archives 1851 ecclesiastical census HO129/171/1/3/11
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson Returns of Accommodation provided by Wesleyan Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, Northampton, Gold Street and Queens Road Circuits 1873/69, 1891/109 1901/ 106, 1911/101, 1931/104
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson Returns of Accommodation provided by Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, 1940/680, Northampton Gold Street Circuit
Northamptonshire Record Office, NMC12, 13, 14, 453, 454, Gold Street Circuit trust schedules, 1911-1959
Methodist Church Buildings: Statistical returns including seating accommodation as at July 1st 1940, No 680
Northamptonshire Record Office, NMC12, 13, 14, 453, 454, Gold Street Circuit trust schedules, 1911-1959
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The photograph shown is certainly not the Wesleyan Methodist chapel. It is the Baptist chapel in Ecton High Street. The Wesleyan Methodist chapel is in West Street Ecton and is presently my home. I visited it on several occasions in 1950/60s when I accompanied local visiting preachers. My husband and I purchased it in 1988 when it ceased to be used as a Girls Brigade hall purchased by Mrs Barker some years previously. It was used from 1988 until 2007 as a design studio and in retirement as our home.
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