Whitwell Welbeck Street United Methodist Free Church, Derbyshire

Whitwell United Methodist Church, Ordnance Survey 25 Inch Derbyshire XIX 1914-23
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Whitwell chapel and the adjoining school were built of brick in 1901. The chapel seated 250 and the school 150. The building cost £1400 and a further £100 was spent on musical instruments. In 1940 the accommodation consisted of a chapel which seated 250 in pews, a school hall and two 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
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson, Methodist Church Buildings: Statistical returns including seating accommodation as at July 1st 1940 No 1016, Worksop, Potter Street Circuit
OS 25 Inch ¬ Derbyshire XIX 1914-23

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