Ibstock Curzon Street Primitive Methodist Chapel, Leicestershire

Curzon Street, Ibstock LE67 6LA

Leicester Record Office has the following information about this chapel.

Ref. DE1142 (N/W/73/1-47, 51-73): Ibstock, Curzon Street PM Chapel, 1868-1932, 1933-1964.

The Primitive Methodists began cottage meetings in Deacon’s Lane at the house of chimney sweep John Loydall in 1837, and in 1840 the Methodist Chapel in Bufton was enlarged. The Primitive Methodist Chapel went up in Pegg’s Lane in 1867.

Further information added by editor (CH) in August 2018

I’ve added three current (2018) photographs of the former Ibstock Primitive Methodist chapel and a map locating it in Curzon Street (LE67 6LA). In 2018 it is occupied by Starchild shoes.

I was confused as to when the chapel moved from Pegg’s Lane to Curzon Street. The chapel is marked in its Curzon Street location on the 1882-3 Ordnance Survey map and where was Pegg Lane in Ibstock? I couldn’t find it on accessible maps.

Thanks to Pauline Pettitt of the Ibstock Historical Society for confirming that Curzon Street used to be known as Pegg’s Lane so the chapel did not move at all. There’s lots of local information and pictures on the Historical Society website at: http://ibstocklives.wixsite.com/home.

Pauline also supplied the earlier photograph of Curzon Street with the Prim chapel in the background.  In the foreground is a shop belonging to the Adcocks next to the Waggon and Horses inn. In 2018 the Waggon and Horses is still open for refreshment and Adcocks shop – with its roof set at a slightly different angle to the pub’s roof – is now a house. The Prims would have been challenged by the pub next door because of the strong temperance tradition.

The photograph is included here with permission of the Ibstock Historical Society; copyright remains with the original donor. Click on the photograph to enlarge it.

Source:

Roy S. Walker, Ibstock: a Leicestershire village in the Nineteenth Century, and the Ball Family

https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/1988/1988%20(62)%2053-71%20Walker.pdf

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  • Ibstock Curzon Street Primitive Methodist Chapel was built of brick with masonry dressings.. In 1940 there was a chapel measuring 42 feet by 26½ feet which seated 200 persons in pews. There were also two school rooms one above the other and both measuring 22 feet by 26½ feet. There were no other rooms and everything was in one block.
    Like many other Methodist building in this part of Leicestershire it combines elements of the classical and Gothic styles. This is most conspicuous in the façade where a large gothic window in a recessed central section extends upwards through the broken pediment (image 01). The entrances are in the projecting side sections which have long and short masonry dressings at both sides. At one time the doorways had porches, since removed, but it is an open question whether these formed part of the original design. Above each doorway is a roundel containing a trefoil window (image 6).. A join in the brickwork on the south side (images 03 and 04) shows that the building was built in two stages. The presence of a single Gothic window in the rear portion suggests that the second, rear, stage entailed the construction of a chapel extension as well as the school rooms identifiable by their two tiers of windows. The chapel had closed by 1970 and building is now used for business purposes
    Sources
    John Rylands Library University of Manchester, DDPD1/479 Methodist Church Buildings: Statistical returns including seating accommodation as at July 1st 1940 Coalville Circuit
    Nottinghamshire Record Office Returns of Accommodation provided by Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, 1970 Nottingham and Derby District, 22/20 Coalville Circuit
    Site visit 15.4.2023

    By G W Oxley (21/04/2023)

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