Whitwell Welbeck Street United Methodist Free Church, Derbyshire

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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