Eastwood Wellington Street Primitive Methodist Chapels

The first Wellington Street Chapel was built in 1824. In 1851 it provided 130 free and 23 other sittings. The chapel was situated on a large plot between the backs of houses in Princes Street and Scargill Street. It was set well back from the road with the long side facing Wellington Street.

The second chapel, called Pentecost, was built of brick in 1896. It stood in front of the old chapel which was retained, probably for Sunday school use.  In 1940 there was a chapel seating 415 in pews, a hall seating 113 and three other rooms. By 1970 the chapel seating had been reduced to 270.

The site has been redeveloped for housing.

Ed’s note:

There’s a twist: J Stephenson wrote in the Primitive Methodist magazine of 1843 about the opening in 1842 of a preaching room and school in Eastwood,  previously “having only a small cottage, with a family residing in it, in which to hold all our meetings”.  Read the account here. Was that the first chapel in Wellington Street and 1824 the cottage?

Sources

John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson

Methodist Church Buildings: Statistical returns including seating accommodation as at July 1st 1940 930 Ilkeston Circuit

Methodist Church Buildings: Statistical returns, 1970, photocopy Nottingham and Derby section at Nottinghamshire Record Office, 22.24 Kimberley Circuit

OS 25 inch Nottinghamshire XXXVII.2, 1878 and 1899