Martin Fairhurst tells us that the chapel was located on the south west corner of the junction of Meads Lane and St. Albans Road.
Grid reference: TQ457877
The chapel opened in 1904 and closed in 1934
In 1904 a Primitive Methodist family moved to Seven Kings, and services started in the house of a Mrs Templar, and subsequently in a room in Downshall Board School, before a temporary iron church was erected on a site secured from Mr A Cameron Corbet (Lord Rowallan)
You can read, complete with pictures, the story of the two temporary iron chapels in Ilford, now the London Borough of Redbridge, here. It tells you what happened after Methodist Union in 1932.
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The Building News of 2 October 1903 reported, on page 445, on a Primitive Methodist chapel, Seven Kings.
“This chapel is to be built of red pressed facing bricks, with stone dressings, green Westmoreland slates being used for the roof. There will be an open ornamental timber roof to the interior. The windows are to be glazed with leaded lights. There will be seating accommodation for 400 persons in the chapel, and 300 children in the schools. A minister’s residence adjoins the chapel. Mr. H. Ascough Chapman, A.R.I.B.A., Prudential Buildings, Leeds, is the architect.”
There was a full page illustration of the building, but it was missing from the copy I examined. A reproduction can be viewed, however, at https://www.archiseek.com/2009/1903-chapel-schools-seven-kings-essex/
Mr Chapman seems to have designed rather more than a tin tabernacle, but was his design actually built? Or was this just an aspiration? The Circuit must have been serious at one point to commission an architect to design a chapel, school and manse. Mr Chapman’s built designs include Leeds, Ashley Road UMFC chapel and Aberford Wesleyan Methodist, both in Yorkshire.
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