Ludlow Old Street Primitive Methodist Chapel
This chapel was erected in 1870 and seated 400 people.
This brick built chapel was closed in the late 1950s and for some time after closure it became a factory making trousers. In March 2014 it is being used by Draycott & Charles Interiors.
Photos taken March 2014.
OS Map ref:137:SO513746
Information about this chapel can be viewed by following the link to Shropshire’s Nonconformist Chapels.
Editor’s note (CH):
The opening of the chapel is recorded by Charles Temperton in the Primitive Methodist magazine of 1871 page 566. The foundation stone was laid on August 10th 1870 and the chapel opened on Sunday April 16th 1871. Preachers were Revs R Key and C Temperton. It was describes as measuring 65′(l) x 36′(w) x 24′(h) and having a frontage of 350 square yards. There was a school room and two small rooms under the chapel.
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My great grandparents, John and Mary Bengry were married in Ludlow PM Chapel in 1850. That was before this building was erected. They lived in Hayton’s Bent and were active in the village PM Chapel, John being the Treasurer and Sunday School Superintendent. Mary had an Overseas Missions collecting box from 1850 until her death in 1932. An article and photograph appeared in the PM Magazine in 1900 and 1932. I have the box in my possession. The Prims arrived in Ludlow around 1826. See my book From Mow Cop to Ludlow and the Bengry’s in Englesea Brook, Shrewsbury and Ludlow libraries.
I’ve added to the page detail of the opening of the chapel from the Primitive Methodist magazine.
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