Newcastle under Lyme Ebenezer Methodist New Connexion Chapel, Staffordshire
Newcastle unde Lyme UMC Chapel, 15.10.2016
Geoffrey Oxley
Newcastle unde Lyme UMC Chapel, updated name plaque 15.10.2016
Geoffrey Oxley
exterior of Ebenezer Methodist New Connexion chapel, Newcastle under Lyme
from the slide collection of Herbert Ogden
interior of Ebenezer Methodist New Connexion chapel, Newcastle under Lyme
from the slide collection of Herbert Ogden
balcony at Ebenezer Methodist New Connexion chapel, Newcastle under Lyme
from the slide collection of Herbert Ogden
pulpit at Ebenezer Methodist New Connexion chapel, Newcastle under Lyme
from the slide collection of Herbert Ogden
harvest display, Ebenezer Methodist New Connexion chapel, Newcastle under Lyme
from the slide collection of Herbert Ogden
communion table at Newcastle under Lyme Ebenezer Methodist New Connexion chapel
from the slide collection of Herbert Ogden
Newcastle under Lyme, Ebenezer Methodist New Connexion Chapel was built in 1857-8 to designs by Simpson of Leeds. By 1901 the estate consisted of a chapel, a schoolroom, and two houses. The land buildings and enlargements had cost £8,700 and the organ a further £400. There was seating for 950 in the chapel and for 550 in the schoolroom. The building is now known as Ebebenzer House and is used as offices.
Sources
Leicestershire Record Office 16D60/31 Methodist New Connexion /Return of Trust Estates/as presented in / Special Schedules, January 1901
N Pevsner, The buildings of England, Staffordshire, p209
Site visit 15.10.2016
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I’ve added a series of pictures of the chapel provided by Simon Rushton. Simon says:
Hi, here are some slides of the old Ebenezer chapel from the late 1960s early 1970s from the slide collection – recently digitised – of Herbert Ogden who worshipped there with his wife Ida.
Several of the flower arrangements shown were by Ida.
Herbert parted company with the Methodists to go to the Congregational Church because as a mining engineer his expertise was called on to inspect damage to the building through subsidence which had affected a coping stone. I think he could find no evidence of mining subsidence being the cause and disagreed with the decision to sell off the old chapel and build a new one on the other side of the road connected to the meeting rooms.
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