Lower Quinton Primitive Methodist chapel

Lower Quinton  parish was in Gloucestershire until 1931 but is now in Warwickshire. A piece of land at the end of Friday Street was bought in 1864 in order to build a Primitive Methodist chapel. It belonged to the Stratford circuit. The congregation soon dwindled, however, and the chapel was sold to Anne Watson for £110 in 1885. The bundle of conveyance papers lists the trustees involved; it also refers to the 1820 Deed Poll by Hugh Bourne, James Bourne and William Clowes enrolled in the High Court of Chancery and includes a copy of the ‘Model Trust Deed and Title Deed Form’ a printed handbook published by the Primitive Methodist Connexion in 1874.

This chapel appears on the 1^st edition OS map (1880s) but not in Trade Directories for Gloucestershire. It was used as a Parish Room and then a WI hall in the mid-20^th century and is now a Well Being Centre called ‘Heaven’ for hairdressing etc.

Sources:

SCLA DR 153/615; Pickford & Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, 2016, p. 517; OS maps; site visit 2018.