The first Horsemarket Primitive Methodist chapel was opened in 1840 – see here. It was demolished and rebuilt in 1872.
The 1872 Horse Market Primitive Methodist Chapel cost £1600 and seated 5-600 people. The materials were brick and stone and besides the chapel there was a Sunday school.
In 1940 the chapel seated 450 and there was a schoolroom and five other rooms. It was situated on the east side of Horsemarket on the north side of an unnamed lane north of St Katherine Street.
It was closed in 1942 and the area has since been redeveloped.
The full story is told in the booklet celebrating the Centenary of the chapel you can download below. Thanks to Rod Walker for supplying it and passing a copy to Northamptonshire Record Office. Rod describes it as ” a fascinating insight into the people, the chapel and the times.”
Sources
Northamptonshire Record Office, NMC426, The Northampton Commission, 1963
Northamptonshire Record Office, NMC29 Horsemarket (formerly First) Station trust schedules, 1934-39
Francis Whellan, History, Topography, and Directory of Northamptonshire, 1874 p142
Site visit 14.06.2019
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Thanks to Graham Ward for the picture of the 1872 Primitive Methodist chapel and Institute in the Horsemarket, Northampton
The architect of the 1872 chapel was James Kerridge of Wisbech and built by a Mr Rand of March. James Kerridge was a prolific Primitive Methodist architect. https://www.myprimitivemethodists.org.uk/content/people-2/lay-people/surnames-beginning-with-k/kerridge-james-1830-1911
I’ve added a copy of the booklet celebrating the Centenary of the chapel. Thanks to Rod Walker for supplying it and passing a copy to Northamptonshire Record Office.
Thanks to Michael for the picture of the trowel used by Mrs T Whitford at the foundation stone laying for the re-building of the chapel. The ceremony took place on 29th March 1872.
I don’t know if it would help but, I was born in Horsemarket Gardens 1941 .The description you have of a lane,that lane leads to Horsemarket gardens.
A guy named Alan Clarke had a photo of it.
On the east side you had Katheriness st then King st.
then the land as you call it, looking at lane,left hand side was the chapel and on the right a meeting house.
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