A Sunday school containing an assembly hall, and a dozen classrooms was built in 1881. The architect was James Green of Todmorden and the estimated cost £3000.
In 1940 there was stone-built chapel which seated 600 in pews, a school hall and eleven other rooms. The chapel closed in 1968 when a new Methodist chapel was opened in Brownbirks Street (qv)
Sources
Building News 1.7.1881 p.4
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson Returns of Accommodation provided by Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, 1940/235 Todmorden Circuit
Returns of Accommodation provided by Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, 1970/6/18 Todmorden Circuit
OS 25 inch Lancashire LXCXIII.1, 1892
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This page has been moved from Yorkshire to Lancashire as Cornholme was in Lancashire when the chapel and Sunday school were built.
The chapel was built in 1853, and opened on Thursday September 28th of that year. It was described as follows:
“It is in the gothic style; and is so elevated as to afford free scope for sound and good ventilation. It has a small gallery behind the pulpit, in a neat recess, for the orchestra, and the three other sides are galleried. The body of the chapel has two ranges of pews up the centre, and benches on either side for the Sunday-school scholars. The building, within the walls, is 48 feet long by 36 feet wide. A burying-ground is also attached, which is laid out in a neat and ornamental style.”
Collections at the opening services amounted to £110 1s 0.5d, to be added to the £300 previously collected. A further £200 was contemplated being raised.
Wesleyan Methodist Association Magazine for 1854, p543
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