The former Methodist New Connection chapel in Bethel Street, Brighouse, is a Grade II Listed Building. You can read the detail on Heritage Gateway here.
It is dated from 1811 and is shown on Street View in commercial use by the Halifax Building Society. It was previously a printing works
You can see the larger chapel that replaced it here.
Grid Reference: SE 14568 22783
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The comment by Stephen Hawksworth (03/07/2024) is incorrect.
This listing is correctly the ex-Bethel Chapel in which William Booth was minister. However, it is not the building (also on Bethel Street) that is now the Richard Oastler Public House. That building was previously Park Methodist Church (there is a separate listing for this church)
There were two Methodist chapels in Bethel Street. The one which is now a pub was Park UMFC chapel, which is a much larger building.
A photograph of the building taken in 2003 has been added
Brighouse, Bethel Street Methodist New Connexion Chapel, Yorkshire
Brighouse, Bethel Street Methodist New Connexion Chapel was a rectangular building set back from the highway. It seated 750. The Sunday school building was situated on the opposite side of Back Bethel Street. By 1901 £8060 had been spent on the original construction and the subsequent enlargement of the chapel, school, and some houses. A further £80. had been spent on purchasing an organ. The chapel seated 565 and the school 400.
The chapel was closed in 1907 when the chapel in Halifax Road was opened
List of the Methodist New Connection Chapels in England, 1861 p 149, Halifax Circuit
OS Town plan of Brighouse Yorkshire CCXXX.15.14
OS 25 inch Yorkshire CCXXX.15 1905
Source: Methodist New Connexion: Returns of Trust Estates as presented in Special Schedules, January 1901, Halifax South Circuit
The chapel is now a Wetherspoon pub named “The Richard Oastler”. An irony there because William Booth was Minister at the chapel for a year. His founding denomination of Salvationists are temperance followers
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