The 1851 Census of Places of Pubic Religious Worship records that Egmanton Primitive Methodist chapel on Horn Lane was built in 1841. Robert Price, a local preacher reported that 20 people attended the afternoon service and 43 in the evening. The chapel had 32 free seats, 32 other and standing room for 10.
Thanks to Adrian Gray for providing the picture of what is left of the chapel in 2021. Where exactly was it? I can’t find Horn Lane on a range of maps.
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Official records are not always correct, or names change over time. Although Horn Lane is an unknown address, all the maps show a Holme Lane which starts not 100 yards from the grid reference given for this building in ‘An inventory of nonconformist chapels and meeting-houses in Central England (1986). The author, C.F. Stell saw a three bay building, and a tablet dated 1841. All the maps show a smithy on the junction of Holme Lane, and the Nottinghamshire HER https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MNT15123&resourceID=1041
tells us that Egmanton Primitive Methodist chapel became that smithy in 1900. The map evidence would suggest the change happened earlier, but who are we to argue?
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