Birdwell Chapel Street Methodist New Connexion Chapel

Chapel Street Methodist New Connexion Chapel was built of stone and brick in 1823. In 1851 it provided 100 free and 58 other sittings. By 1901 £1,200 had been spent on the original construction and the subsequent enlargement of the chapel and a school. A further £20 had been spent on purchasing an organ. The chapel seated 300 and the school 200. In 1940 the chapel which seated 300 in pews. There was also a school hall and four other rooms. The chapel had closed by 1970. This description is confirmed by maps which show two adjacent buildings of similar size on the west side of Chapel Street.
Sources
J Woolfe, Yorkshire returns of the 1851 census of religious worship, Vol 3 West Riding, South No. 2140(TNAHO129/505/67)
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, 1940/588 Brighouse A
The Methodist Church Department of Chapel Affairs, Statistical Returns, Part 1, 1972 Returns made 06.01.1970 25/16 Barnsley East Circuit
OS 251903 inch Yorkshire CCLXXX.11 1889 (reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland),