The 1879 Primitive Methodist magazine contains a note of the opening of a new Primitive Methodist chapel at Southwick. It cost £350 of which they had raised £250.
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Primitive Methodist magazine 1879 page 637
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Page 8 of the Southern Weekly News of 23 June 1877 reports: “OPEN AIR SERVICE. – The opening services in connection with a new Mission Hall, at Southwick, were held by the Primitive Methodists on Wednesday [20 June]. In the afternoon a tea was provided on the green, and later on an open air public meeting was held. This was well attended, and several interesting addresses were delivered.” Perhaps this was superseded by the 1879 chapel. The Victoria County History of Sussex Volume 6 Part 1 (https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt1/pp173-183) indicates that it closed in 1906. It was on Lock Road, which is no longer extant; I think it was the building at the corner of Butts Road (also gone; immediately south of Southwick railway station) which was shown as a hall on the 1953 OS map, by which time it was a Brethren meeting hall.
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