Horsey Corner PM Chapel
Now a hotel
This building is situated on the main road out of Horsey village towards Sea Palling.
It was the second Primitive Methodist Chapel in Horsey, built in 1910. It was sold and converted into houses for farm workers when the current Methodist Church was built in 1958.
It is now a hotel called ‘The Old Chapel’.
The history of the Primitive Methodist Chapels in Horsey can by found on the Horsey Village website.
Primitive Methodists began meeting in a farm house, where Hugh Bourne preached in the kitchen in the 1840s. The first Chapel was built in 1870.
Photo taken in May 2012.
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The History of the Chapel on the village website does not mention of the legal case in 1860 where when parents were burying an unbaptised child in the churchyard they were supported by a local Primitive Methodist leader one Joseph Fish. He prayed outside the churchyard as the baby was being buried sang a hymn ‘Alas how soon the body dies.’ Fish was summonsed by the vicar and charged with indecent behaviour by singing a hymn over an unbaptised baby. In October 1860 he was convicted of invading the rights of the vicar and fined one shilling. Such was the outcry that the vicar withdrew the case and the conviction was quashed. (1861 PM magazine page 109).
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