Swavesey Primitive Methodist Chapel, Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archives has the following information about this chapel:
- Ref. MRD/C33/1-3: New Trustees 1884. Again New Trustees from 1932 to only 1933. Closed c.1933, sold 1934. The Primitive Methodists decided to preach at Swavesey in 1823. The PM Chapel may have previously been a Congregational Church/Chapel.
The British History Online website records that in 1884 the Primitive Methodists bought the former Unitarian or Baptist chapel in School Lane; after the Sunday school closed in 1914 attendance dropped and the chapel was closed in 1932, sold in 1934, and converted to a bungalow.
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The Cambridgeshire Community Archive Network has a photo of this chapel, taken in about 1900. They describe it as having been demolished in 1982; the existing building at 1 School Lane certainly bears no resemblance to it and appears entirely modern.
https://swavesey.ccan.co.uk/content/catalogue_item/school-lane-swavesey
They say: “This building was known as the Church of the Unitarians from 1830 to 1860. It was then taken over by a Baptist congregation. By 1884, the Baptist group had disappeared and it was sold to the Methodists and was used by them until 1932. In 1934 it was sold and converted into a house by Mr George Oakman. In 1982 it was sold again and taken down. Two houses were then built on the site.”
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