Sheffield Abbeydale Primitive Methodist chapel
South View Road Abbeydale S7 1DF
Abbeydale Primitive Methodist chapel in South View Road Sheffield is shown on Google Street View in 2012 as in the process of demolition. By October 2014 the site has been cleared but not put to alternative use.
Sheffield Archives hold marriage records for the chapel starting from 1900. The last entry in the marriage register is 1949. This indicates the date the chapel hosted an active society.
More precisely, the 1892 Primitive Methodist magazine records the laying of the memorial stones for the new chapel and schools which were in the Sheffield Fifth station. Much support had come from the other chapels in the station. The June 1893 magazine records that the chapel had been opened. It had cost close on £5,000 of which they had raised £3,000
Reference
Primitive Methodist magazine April 1892 page 251
Primitive Methodist magazine June 1893 page 379
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Comments on Sheffield Forum made reference to this church burning down earlier in the year in 2008. It was a Grade II listed building and plans were submitted to make it into an aparthotel. The listing is here but it doesn’t help with an exact year or support the comment about the architect: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1270866?section=official-list-entry
Sheffield City Archives:
Ref. NR2293-2295: Ecclesall Circuit (Methodist) Records, 1888-1932, 1933-1980, includes Records for the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Abbeydale.
The architect in 1891-3 was Joseph Smith
This page was modified on 19 October 2016 to add a transcription of an article in the 1900 Christian Messenger about the Church and its associated Circuit, Sheffield IX, which was formed from Sheffield V.
The article includes several photographs of church and circuit officials.
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