Ellesmere Port Queen Street Primitive Methodist chapel

You can read about the growth of the society in the town here  in an article from the Christian Messenger.

You can read about this chapel in the context of  other Ellesmere Port chapels here.

Here Chris Wells tells us more about this chapel.

A history of early Primitive Methodism in Ellesmere Port and the Upper Mersey Street chapel can be found in the download at the bottom of this section. That chapel was built in 1871/72. Over the next thirty years they built ‘a suite of premises for day and Sunday school purposes … At a still later date, a capital and modern infant school.’

1900: The Upper Mersey Street chapel was replaced by a much larger chapel in Queen Street, only about 70 yards away. It is clearly labelled on a 1937 25” OS map, from which the chapel scales at about 44ft x 76ft. From Kelly’s Directory of Cheshire 1902, page 313: ‘There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1900 at a cost of £3,500, and seating 670 persons.’

The 1940 list of Methodist chapels has an entry for this chapel in the ‘Districts C’ download, page 73, Circuit 411: Ellesmere Port:

• Queen Street (Ellesmere Port): Brick; seating for 650; Pews; 4 School Halls; 9 other rooms.

1968: The Queen Street chapel was closed and demolished to make way for the new M53 motorway. It was replaced by a new chapel, known as Westminster chapel, in John Nicholas Crescent. That chapel closed in about 2003.