Thanks to Richard Hewitt for the photographs of Swillington Methodist Church and Church Hall. The church and church hall have since been demolished and in 2024 the site is the entrance to Swillington Primary School.
There is no chapel on the 1905 Ordnance Survey maps – indeed, the few houses in the village are widely dispersed – but the Methodist chapel is marked on Church Lane on the 1938 map.
The 1940 list of Methodist Buildings records an entry for Swillington (Church Road) Methodist chapel. It tells us that the chapel was formerly part of the United Methodist Connexion, so must have been built before 1932 when the United Methodists, Primitive Methodists and Wesleyan Methodists united to form the current Methodist church. It describes the chapel as brick built, accommodating 200 people seated on pews and with two other rooms. It was placed in the Leeds Rothwell Circuit.
Is the Church Road/Church Lane discrepancy important?
What’s the story of the people?
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The 1970 accommodation returns date this building to 1932, so it would have been one of the last United Methodist chapels built.
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