Hockley Methodist New Connexion chapel

The 1940 Inventory of Methodist Buildings tells us there was a United Methodist chapel on Unett Street in Hockley, Birmingham. It was a large, brick built building, seating 600 people on pews.   In addition to the worship area there were 6 other rooms. In 1940 it was in the Birmingham Mission – and one of the  chapels in the circuit to have suffered wartime damage, even at that early stage in the war.

The society had a long history: it was included in A Digest of the Minutes, Institutions, Polity, Doctrines, Ordinances and Literature of the Methodist New Connexion, by William Baggally was published by the Methodist New Connexion Bookroom in 1861. A Methodist New Connexion chapel in Unett Street, Birmingham was included in the 1867 register of places of worship.

The 1902 Ordnance Survey map shows a Methodist chapel on Unett Street, with a separate Sunday school behind it along what was then Hockley Street.  In 2024 Hadfield Court is on the site.