This series showing MNC Methodist New Connexion churches
This is High Street Methodist New Connexion Church Huddersfield
The first MNC chapel was built in 1814. By the early 1860s, the increasing size of the congregation necessitated the building this replacement chapel. The foundation stone of the new chapel, which was designed by Leeds architect William Hill and built by Abraham Graham & Sons using stone from Crosland Hill, was laid on Wednesday 27 July 1864 by Joseph Crosland. Although not quite completed at the time, the new chapel — which was dubbed “the Cathedral of the New Connexion” due to its size — was opened in a ceremony held on Thursday 10 January 1867.
The chapel closed in 1944, with the congregation joining Brunswick Street Methodist Chapel. The building was sold at auction for £12,000 in March 1945, although the “communion rail, dais, and three stained glass windows were not included in the sale”.
The former chapel was eventually demolished circa 1956.
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Huddersfield, High Street Methodist New Connexion Chapel (ii) was built of stone and completed January 1867 at a cost of £10500. By 1901 £14000 had been spent on the original construction and the subsequent enlargement of the chapel, school, a house, a shop, and a manse. A further £1200. had been spent on purchasing an organ. The chapel seated 1270 and the school 400. In 1940 there was a chapel which seated 1100 in pews, a school hall and seven other rooms .
The chapel was bult on the combined sites of the old chapel and the adjoining Crescent Inn.The front portion of the new building only occupied the centre of the site but rhe rear section was almost as wide as the site leaving only narrow passages to provide access to the school behind. This building had been enlarged (or replaced?) and was now about 50% larger than its predecessor .
Sources
White’s Directory of Leeds etc. 1876 p. 351
Methodist New Connexion: Returns of Trust Estates as presented in Special Schedules, January 1901, Huddersfield Circuit
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson Returns of Accommodation provided by Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, 1940/585 Huddersfield, High Street Circuit
OS 25 inch 1889 Yorkshire CCXLVI.15.13
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