Holcombe Primitive Methodist chapel

LongLeat Lane, Holcombe

Holcombe: return from the Primitive Methodist chapel to the 1851 Census of Places of Public Religious worship. Return no: 322 1 1 4
provided by David Tonks 2021

The return from the Primitive Methodist chapel in Holcombe to the 1851 Census of Places of Public Religious worship was completed by the minister, William Leaker.

He reports that the chapel was erected in 1849 and held 100 people, 60 of them in free seats. On Census Sunday, 50 people attended a morning service and the chapel was full wqith 100 in the evening.

I am unable to find a Primitive Methodist chapel in Holcombe on old Ordnance Survey maps.  Where was the chapel and what happened to it?

Additional information from Jeff Parsons (May 2023)

Regarding the Primitive Chapel which the 1851 Census returns show as being in Longleat Lane I have been reseraching this further as I have not been able to pin it down to Longleat lane, but in Charlton Street. There is no longer a Charlton Street but there is Charlton Road. Some info from Somerst Heritage Centre suggests that it was at the end of a row of cottages and the lease of the land was from Revd Joliffe, a predecessor I think of the current Lord Hylton at Ammerdown. They owned a considerable amout of land around Kilmersdon and Holcombe and in fact the Prim Chapel at Charlton was also on their land.

If I can get to Taunton some time I will call at the SHC and look up the reference which has a Tithe Map Number which should be helpful in establishing just where the chapel was sited.

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  • Interest whether incidental or particular always most welcome Chris. You’re correct about the Methodist chapel location, but it’s a Wesleyan Methodist chapel rather than a Primitive Methodist one (same theology, different ways of organising). Many villages had both sorts

    You can read about it here:
    https://www.mywesleyanmethodists.org.uk/content/chapels/somerset/holcombe-wesleyan-methodist-chapel

    By Christopher Hill (02/06/2023)
  • Hope you don’t mind me jumping in here – my interest is incidental – but I found your discussion whilst looking for the place one of my ancestors worshipped.
    According to this map from the excellent National Library of Scotland website:

    https://maps.nls.uk/view/106020308

    it is marked in the triangle between Chapel Lane, Longleat Lane and Stratton Road.
    If you look at Google Street-view it appears now to be a private house at 3 Longleat Lane

    By Chris Thompson (31/05/2023)

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