Lockwood, Bentley Street UMFC chapel, Yorkshire

Bentley Street UMFC chapel was built in the 1860s, Behind it were two Sunday school buildings, one of which was built in 1885.
“The building will comprise:- assembly hall, 60ft; by 30ft., into which six classrooms 10ft, by 14ft., directly open. The hall has a gallery at one end, and from the other doors open into the infants’ room 24ft. by 18ft.; and classroom 18ft. by 12ft. Adjoining will be, a new vestry and chapel keeper’s house. Mr B Stocks of Huddersfield is the architect and the contractors are: masons, Messrs Moorhouse and Pogson, Weltham; joiner, Mr J Sunderland, Lockwood; plumber, Mr D Taylor, Lockwood; slaters, Messrs Pickle Brothers, Leeds; and plasterers, Messrs T. Longbottom and Sons, Lockwood”
Building News 22.8.1884 p.328 and 9.1.1885 p.363
In 1940 the chapel seated 400 in pews and there was a school hall and 12 other rooms. By 1970 the seating capacity had been reduced to 260 in the chapel and 270 in the school and there were only seven classrooms. The chapel has since been closed.
Sources
OS 25 inch Yorkshire CCLX.3 1887, 1904, 1913, 1929
OS Town plan of Huddersfield Yorkshire CCLX.3,6 1887
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson Returns of Accommodation provided by Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, 1940/580 Huddersfield Buxton Road Circuit
The Methodist Church Department of Chapel Affairs, Statistical Returns, Part 1, 1972 Returns made 06.011970 27/6 Huddersfield South Circuit
Churches – Huddersfield Methodists