From Steven Wild’s old Methodist Postcard Album
Boothtown Road Methodist New Connexion church later United Methodist church Halifax Yorkshire
Thanks to Julian Farrar for more detail
Boothtown United Methodist Church (as it was then known) owes its origin to the Methodist Reform movement of 1849/50. In 1851 a room was rented at the bottom of Ploughcroft Lane from Isaac Hartley. Prior to its adaptation, it was a Smithy and stable.
The first church building – pictured on the postcard – was on the junction of Bradford New Road and Grantham Road. Opened on Good Friday 1862, it was in use until 1907, when the new larger church was built on the current site and opened on Saturday, 23rd March 1907.
In 2023 it is Boothtown & Southowram Methodist Church
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After closure as a place of worship the 1862 building enjoyed a new lease of life into the 1960s as a club. It has now been demolished and the site grassed over and incorporated in a public open space. The photograph shows an attractive building in the plain Romanesque style which was going out of fashion in favour of elaborate decoration or Gothic by 1860. The photograph shows the main entrance at street level and a lower floor taking advantage of the sloping ground to enjoy natural light.
Alterations designed by Leeming and Leeming were under construction in 1874
Building News 1874 p. 298
This is the first church building which was on the junction of Bradford New Road and Grantham Road, and was opened on Good Friday 1862 and was in use until 1907, when the new larger church was built on the current site, and opened on Saturday, 23rd March 1907.
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