Hedon Primitive Methodist chapels

Magdalen Gate, Hedon, HU12 8JP and Church Lane, Hedon, HU12 8EL

former Hedon Magdalen Gate Primitive Methodist chapel
Keith Guyler 1999
site of former Hedon Church Lane Primitive Methodist
Keith Guyler 1999

Hedon British Legion club on Magdalen Gate is a former Primitive Methodist chapel. The stone tablet on the front with texts from Ephesians (3:20-21)  and Matthew (18:20) dates it as 1801.  Keith Guyler notes that at that time it was used by the Baptists (1801-12) Wesleyans (1812-18) and then later again the  Baptists 1874-1910

The Yorkshire Returns of the 1851 Census of Religious Worship records that on 30th March the Primitive Methodists met in a chapel built in 1800 for the Wesleyans.  It accommodated 120 with 40 attending in the morning and 60 in the evening.  The average congregation was 50 with 42 in the Sunday school.  It  was signed by Rev James Parkinson of Beverley Road, Hull.

The 1886 Primitive Methodist magazine records the laying of memorial stones for a schoolroom. It notes that the stone was laid by Miss Hodge, following the steps of her mother who laid the memorial stones for a new chapel some years previously.

The current Methodist church, built in 1978, is on Church Lane.  This was also the site of a Primitive Methodist chapel and the former hall can be seen in the background of the photograph.  This chapel was built in 1873 and enlarged in  1883 and 1923.

But there is more.  In the early hours of 22nd August 1917, Hedon experienced one of the 50 plus Zeppelin raids on Britain during the Great War  (1914-18), which claimed the lives of more than 500 people.    Fortunately in Hedon there was no loss of life, but the bombing completely destroyed a Primitive Methodist Chapel that stood on Baxter Gate. The building was never repaired and eventually demolished years later.

Can anyone explain how these chapels relate to each other?

Reference

The Hedon blog accessed April 6th 2015

Primitive Methodist magazine  October 1886 page 636

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