Shibden chapel was built before 1861, By 1901 £1000 had been spent on the original construction and the subsequent enlargement of the chapel and a house. The chapel seated 50. The chapel was not reported in 1940 and had probably closed
Sources
List of the Methodist New Connection Chapels in England, 1861 p 149, Halifax, N & S Circuits
Methodist New Connexion: Returns of Trust Estates as presented in Special Schedules, January 1901, Halifax North Circuit
Shibden Methodist New Connexion Chapel, Yorkshire
Shibden MNC chapel as shown on Ordnance Survey 25 inch sheet Yorkshire CCXXXI.2 (1905)
'Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland' https://maps.nls.uk/index.html
Opening of a chapel at Shibden
Methodist New Connexion Magazine 1862 p387
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I have added the account of the opening of Shibden MNC chapel in 1862. Although the chapel is described in some detail, and we are told precisely where it was, it seems to have taken the Ordnance Survey until 1905 to add the chapel to a map.It was next door to Salterlee Primary School. The seating arrangements in 1862 seem at odds with the 1901 returns, and taken in the context of the lack of cartographic representation this does raise questions as to what was happening.
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