Cowling United Methodist Free Church chapel, Yorkshire

Cowling  WMA chapel was built 1831. In 1851 it provided 400 free and 350 other sittings.

Cowling United Methodist Free Church chapel was situated on a plot which extended from the main street to The Old Lane. The chapel was set well back from the street and the attached school building was behind it close to The Old Lane. The whole was set in a landscaped plot planted with deciduous and evergreen trees. There was a burial ground on the opposite side of The Old Lane. In 1940 the chapel seated 649 in pews and there was a school hall and nine other rooms.

By 1971 the chapel had been closed and the site cleared of all but a few trees. Its successor, St Andrew’s Methodist Church in Walton Street opened in 1965.
Sources
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson Returns of Accommodation provided by Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, 1940 270 Keighley Circuit
OS 25 inch CLXXXIV.12 1893
OS SD9643-SD9743-AA

J Woolfe, Yorkshire returns of the 1851 census of religious worship, Vol 2 West Ridingg, North No. 827