Bath Street/East India Dock Road, United Free Methodist Chapel was built opened in 1868 to replace a smaller chapel which stood on the same site. The architect was Thomas Simpson of Nottingham.
The plan shows a building with a multiplicity of stairs. They probably indicate that there were three levels: a lower floor (basement/ground floor?) probably used as a Sunday school with a galleried chapel above. The main entrances were at the corners of a long side which fronted East India Dock Road. Inside a U shaped array of columns indicates the position of the gallery. Together the chapel and the gallery seated 1750. Further details and illustrations which confirm this interpretation may be found in The Survey of London, and The Illustrated London News. The chapel appears to have been closed between 1906 and 1940..
Sources
Free Methodist Manual: London: Andrew Crombie, 1899 p p270 London, Second
The religious census of London, London, MDCCCLXXXVIII, reprinted from the British Weekly (https://archive.org/details/religiouscensus00lond)
Religious Census of Greater London, 1906
OS 1:1056 Town plan of Middlesex/London VIII.6.1 1867 and 1893
The Site plan was taken from the OS plan of Middlesex, sheet VIII.61 for 1867and is reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (Map images website).
Survey of London: Volumes 43 and 44, Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs, ed. Hermione Hobhouse (London, 1994), British History Online
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