A request to help identify a photograph of an unknown chapel which turned out to be the United Methodist Free Church in Mapplewell, near Barnsley also revealed a cluster or other sorts of Methodist, all within a short distance of each other.
This includes the former Methodist New Connexion chapel which in 2023 is in use as a business hub. It remains little altered externally.
The Mapplewell.info website tells us that he first place of worship to be erected within the village boundaries was the New Connection Chapel built in Peckett’s Square in 1800. Foster’s Bakery is on the site in 2023.
The chapel on Spark Lane already exists on the 1891 Ordnance Survey map. National Archives tell us it became Providence Methodist church.
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Mapplewell, Providence Methodist New Connextion chapel, Yorkshire
Mapplewell MNC Chapel was built in 1800. In 1851 it provided 120 free and 166 other sittings. By 1901 £1600 had been spent on the original construction and the subsequent enlargement of the chapel and a school A further £210. had been spent on purchasing an organ. The chapel seated 400 and the school 150
Sources
J Woolfe, Yorkshire returns of the 1851 census of religious worship, Vol 3 West Riding, South No.2093
A Digest of the Minutes, Institutions, Polity, Doctrines, Ordinances and Literature of the Methodist New Connexion, by William Baggally, p 148, Barnsley Circuit
Methodist New Connexion: Returns of Trust Estates as presented in Special Schedules, January 1901, Sheffield District, Barnsley Circuit
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