Chalfont St Giles Primitive Methodist chapel

Deanway, Chalfont St. Giles Buckinghamshire HP8 4JH

postcard from the collection of Revd Steven Wild
Chalfont St Giles Deanway Primitive Methodist chapel
Keith Guyler 1996
Chalfont St Giles Primitive Methodist chapel

Deanway United Church in Chalfont St Giles meets in the former Milton Primitive Methodist chapel.  It is a joint Methodist and United Reformed society, united in September 1977. Deanway is the continuation of Three Households main street in Chalfont St Giles

Two missionaries from High Wycombe introduced Methodism to Chalfont St.Giles in 1835.  The first building dates from 1847 and was replaced by the present Deanway building in 1866.  This in turn was renovated or rebuilt in 1906.

There is an account in the Primitive Methodist magazine by T Williams of the opening in October 17th 1847 of what it calls Chalfont St Giles and Three Households chapel.  The Primitive Methodist magazine for October 1851 contains an account by T Jackson of the re-opening of Three Households Primitive Methodist chapel in the High Wycombe circuit.

The chapel was built of brick with a slate roof, and measured 30′ x 27′, 10′ high to the wall plate.  The redevelopment made it 9′ wider and 2′ higher, able to accommodate 220 persons. It would help in accommodating the growing Sunday school.

Sermons at the re-opening on August 3rd 1851 were preached by J Hunt, E Tocock. Mr Hunt also gave £5 towards the cost – as he did with a number of chapels.

Although the 1847 and 1851 magazine accounts include Three Households in the chapel name, on  the Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 maps for 1876 and 1898 there is no marked Primitive Methodist chapel in the Three Households village.  The chapel is however close by on Deanway, the continuation of Three Households main street in Chalfont St Giles. It is now Deanway United Church.

Reference

Primitive Methodist magazine December 1847 page 746

Primitive Methodist magazine for October 1851 pp. 627 – 628

 

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  • Follow the link to Mary Stacey for more information about the early days of Primitive Methodism in Chalfont St Giles.

    By Geoff Dickinson (16/08/2016)

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