Ardsley Methodist New Connection Chapel, Yorkshire (SE385055)

Ardsley MNC Chapel was built in 1807. In 1851 it provided 40 free and 82 other sittings. By 1901 £2500 had been spent on the original construction and the subsequent enlargement of the chapel, a school and a house. These figure probably indicate that the 1807 building had been replaced by a much larger structure A further £150. had been spent on purchasing an organ. The chapel seated 300 and the school 270. In 1940 there was a chapel which seated 260 in pews, a school hall and six other rooms
Sources
J Woolfe, Yorkshire returns of the 1851 census of religious worship, Vol 3 West Riding, South No. 2098 (TNAHO120/505/22)
A Digest of the Minutes, Institutions, Polity, Doctrines, Ordinances and Literature of the Methodist New Connexion, by William Baggally, p 148, Barnsley Circuit
Methodist New Connexion: Returns of Trust Estates as presented in Special Schedules, January 1901, Sheffield District, Barnsley Circuit
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson Returns of Accommodation provided by Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, 1940/489 Barnsley, West Circuit
OS 25 inch Yorkshire CCXLXXV.9 1890, 1929