Registered Wesleyan Methodist places of worship in Sussex, 1867

This is a list of chapels that had been registered by 1867, derived from ‘A list of places of meeting for public religious worship, certified to the Registrar General’.   Remember that registration was not compulsory. There is evidence from Wesleyan Methodist sources that there were at least a further eight, if not as many as fifteen, other places of worship open at this time. As registration was valid until cancelled, however, there may be duplication: i.e.  both the old and new chapels in a place may be listed. There are three examples on this list.

We have also discovered that the official location may not be the same as the name by which the chapel is commonly described.  The Registrar General lists a chapel at Hove in Hailsham Registration District, for example. This may be an error for Hooe. No evidence can be found for a chapel in Hooe, but there was one not far away at Ninfield which is known to have been in use at this time.

Unless otherwise stated each of these places of worship is described as a chapel.

The numbers on the list relate to places, and match those on the map. The base map is provided under this licence

The chapels in Sussex were part of the Second London, Kent, and Portsmouth Districts, and for information about their capacity, go to  The Returns of accommodation of 1873  Other useful maps qre Plates 2 and 4 of  The Wesleyan Methodist Atlas

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