Clowne United Methodist Free Church chapel which seated 400 in 1923, and the adjoining school were built of brick in 1894 at a cost of £1700. In 1940 the accommodation consisted of a chapel which seated 300 in pews, a school hall and three other rooms
Sources
Free Methodist Manual: London, Andrew Crombie, 1899 p 277 Sheffield District, Worksop Circuit
Nottinghamshire Record Office MR3/52 Special trust schedules and related papers c 1923-4 Worksop Circuit
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson, Methodist Church Buildings: Statistical returns including seating accommodation as at July 1st 1940 No 1016
OS 25 inch Derbyshire XIX 11 1914-16
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The foundation stone for Clowne UMFC (ii) Chapel was laid on Whit Monday 1894. Besides the chapel there was a Sunday school, vestries and a caretaker’s house. They were situated on the south side of High Street opposite Booten Lane
Bulmers Directory of Derbyshire, 1894-5, p 222
25 inch OS sheet Derbyshire XIX 11 1898
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