Stow Bridge Primitive Methodist chapel
Upwell circuit
Evelyn Simak
Stow Bridge is a small hamlet which lies between Downham Market and King’s Lynn. Stow Bridge Primitive Methodist chapel was opened in 1833. The opening on 19/05/1833 + 20/05/1833 was described in the Primitive Methodist magazine by S Atterby. Opening preachers on the Sunday were Mrs Alphin, Miss Pelch and, on the Monday, S Atterby. The “neat commodious chapel” had 30 members and a Sunday school.
A second chapel called Bethesda was built in 1880 in West Head Road PE34 3NL. In 2006, permission to convert it to residential use was given although that lapsed and the chapel was for sale for £50,000 in 2016.
Reference
Primitive Methodist magazine 1834 p.73
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Who owns the stow bridge chapel now?
Thanks Peter G for adding another piece to the jigsaw!
The photographed Bethesda is the United Methodist Free Churches chapel of 1860 (the datestone can be seen in the gable) .
The sale particulars are here
https://www.brown-co.com/pages/auction_property?lid=52264
A photo of “Derelict former Primitive Methodist chapel, dating from 1833, taken from the Ouse river bank overlooking Gooding Close” can be seen here https://www.downhammarketparishes.uk/parishes/stow-bardolph
Many thanks Evelyn.
I have a photo of the chapel. You can download it from here: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5309085
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