We are told by Kendall that Thomas Holliday preached in Elland in 1821, in the early days of the Connexion. The 1851 Religious census returns for Halifax Registration District (HO129/498) are missing, so no return for Elland MNC can be found, which would give some idea as to when a chapel was built.. The earliest Ordnance Survey 6 inch map of the area was surveyed in 1848, and published in 1854 and it shows the chapel on Jepson Lane (see red arrow on the image).
The foundation stone of a new chapel were laid on April 2nd 1864 by Rev. John Simpson. The 1867 list of buildings registered for worship lists two Primitive Methodist sites in Elland, a preaching house, and a chapel in South Wells, called Zion. Were these Jepson Lane and the chapel built in 1864?
What happened to these early chapels?
Sources
Kendall, Holliday Bickerstaffe. The Origin and History of the Primitive Methodist Church. London: Edwin Dalton, [1906], Vol. 1, p488
Mayhall, John. The annals of Yorkshire. Leeds, Joseph Johnson. Vol, 2 (1866) p 235
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Later edition of Ordnance Survey maps of Jepson Lane show a burial ground wrapped round an empty space where the pre 1854 chapel was situated.
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