Barnsley Blucher Street Wesleyan Methodist Association Chapel

Barnsley, Blucher Street, Wesleyan Methodist Association Chapel was built in 1829. A ground plan of 1850, where it was described as a “Methodist Chapel (Protestant), shows an almost square building with the longer side facing the street. The interior contained a U shaped row of columns indicating the presence of a gallery and the southern third of the ground floor appears to have been partitioned off. Unusually no seating was shown. Other features are difficult to interpret. In 1851 it provided 450 free and 250 other sittings. By 1940 the overall seating capacity of the chapel had been reduced to 442 in pews. There were also four school halls and 19 other rooms. The Chapel had been closed by 1970. The chapel was situated on the east side of Blucher Street.
Sources
J Woolfe, Yorkshire returns of the 1851 census of religious worship, Vol 3 West Riding, South No.2109
Free Methodist Manual: London: Andrew Crombie, 1899 p 264, Barnsley Circuit
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson Returns of Accommodation provided by Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, 1940/488 Barnsley East Circuit
The Methodist Church Department of Chapel Affairs, Statistical Returns, Part 1, 1972 Returns made 06.01.1970 25/16 &17 Barnsley Circuits
OS Town plan 1850 sheet 8