From my old Methodist Postcard Album
This series showing MNC Methodist New Connexion churches
This is Ebenezer Methodist New Connexion Church, Leeds, where the first MNC conference took place.
The Ebenezer Chapel is where Alexander Kilham preached after he led the separation from the Wesleyan Methodists and founded the religious organization known as the Methodist New Connexion in 1797. The Ebenezer Chapelyard was ordered closed to further burials by a motion passed at Leeds Town Council in June 1848. At that time, there were concerns about public hygiene and the Chapelyard was described as “small and very full, surrounded by a dense population” (Leeds Times, June 24 1848 p 3). The site was redeveloped more than once after it was sold. After the Second World War, it was a paved parking lot and is now the site of a major shopping centre development. The fate of the original interments in the Chapelyard is not known. A burial register dating from 1789 to 1831 is available at the National Archives of Great Britain (Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU).
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Leeds, Ebenezer Street, Ebenezer Methodist New Connexion chapel was built 1797. In 1851 it provided 92 free and 454 other sittings
J Woolfe, Yorkshire returns of the 1851 census of religious worship, Vol 2 West Riding, North No 1594
A plan of the chapel has been added.
The National Archives RG4/3072 is the baptismal and burial register of this chapel. It may be viewed, for a fee, on a range of genealogical websites. There were 805 baptisms between 1797 and 1837, and 286 burials.
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