On our partner My Primitive Methodists site, Joan Saul added a comment about High Green Primitive Methodist chapel – and pointed out that she could remember another Chapel at the top of Thompson Hill; it had New Connexion on the front.
The 1891 Ordnance Survey map shows the Methodist New Connexion chapel chapel in the V of the Near Potter Hill junction of Far Potter Hill Lane (now Hague Lane) with what was then Chapel Hill (now Potter Hill Lane). On the opposite side of Chapel Hill there is a smaller Sunday School building. It was just north of the water works. The buildings are still there on the 1929 map.
Street View in 2008 shows it as a grassy area with 1960s housing where the Sunday School used to be.
Does anyone else remember this chapel and what happened to it? Thanks to Joan for confirming the name as Potter Hill.
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Sheffield, Potter Hill Methodist New Connection chapel, Yorkshire (SK323973)
Potter Hill Methodist New Connection chapel was built before 1861. By 1901 £600 had been spent on the original construction and the subsequent enlargement of the chapel and a school The chapel seated 200 and the school 70. In 1940 there was a stone chapel which seated 150 in pews, a school hall and no other rooms. The chapel stood at the junction of Potter Hill Lane and Chapel Hill. The Sunday school was on the opposite side of Chapel Hill. Nothing had changed by 1966 but by 1970 both buildings had been demolished leaving vacant sites
A Digest of the Minutes, Institutions, Polity, Doctrines, Ordinances and Literature of the Methodist New Connexion, by William Baggally, 1860 p 150
White’s Directory of Sheffield, 1879, p. 184
Methodist New Connexion: Returns of Trust Estates as presented in Special Schedules, January 1901, Sheffield District, Sheffield North Circuit
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson Returns of Accommodation provided by Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, 1940/1005 Sheffield, North East Circuit
25 inch Yorkshire CCLXXXII. 15 1891 and 1931
OS SK3297-SK3397 – BB1956 and CC1970
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