Birstall, Mount Tabor United Methodist Free Church chapel was built of stone before 1898. By 1940 chapel estate consisted of the chapel which seated 600 in pews, a school hall and six other rooms. The building was labelled “Mount Tabor Methodist Church on a map of 1967 but appears to have closed shortly afterwards.
Sources
Free Methodist Manual: London: Andrew Crombie, 1899 p 265 Birstall Circuit
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson Returns of Accommodation provided by Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, 1940/296 Birstall (U) Circuit
OS town plan Yorkshire CCXXXI.6.10, 1888
OS SE2226SE A and B
The Methodist Church Department of Chapel Affairs, Statistical Returns, Part 1, 1972 Returns made 06.01.1970
Birstall North Terrace, Mount Tabor United Methodist Free Church chapel
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Birstall Wesleyan Reform chapel was built before 1851 when it seated 476
J Woolfe, Yorkshire returns of the 1851 census of religious worship, Vol 3 West Riding, South No. 1820
If it was not this building it was doubtless its predecessor
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