While looking for PM Chapels at the nearby Suttons a Methodist Chapel marked on the early OS maps is according to Genuki web database a former PM Chapel. Its location is Terrington St Clement on Popes Lane, South Green at NGR TF 5417 1978. It also tells us that the Chapel had no Graveyard and was opened in 1850 and closed in 1971. The Brick building at the current location has suggestion of some filled in arched windows but a modern garage extention hides most of this but I do think that this is the old chapel building converted to a private residence. It is visible on Google Street View.
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This chapel would have been opened in 1850, as details of the Trust are preserved in the Close Rolls for 1850 part 115 no.15. On 31 March 1851 George Keene, Trustee and Chapel Steward, reported that there had been an afternoon congregation of 80, with 90 attending in the evening. Despite these facts, neither this chapel nor the Wesleyan one elsewhere in the parish appear to have been registered in 1867.
The accommodation returns of 1940 tell us that it was a brick building seating 175.
As it did not have a graveyard is it possible that they buried in the Wesleyan graveyard, as David Leese suggests?
Norfolk Heritage Explorer (NHER no 40212) records that the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Hill Gate Street /Wesley Road was demolished in 2004 and gravestones relocated. It noted that all of these stones referred to Primitive Methodists -suggesting an earlier PM chapel on the site.
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