Flixton Primitive Methodist chapel

Main Street, Flixton, SCARBOROUGH, YO11 3UB

The first Primitive Methodist chapel at Flixton was built in 1821 and this is the one in Keith Guyler’s photograph. By 1971 it had become a cottage named ‘The Old Methodist Chapel’.

A second chapel was built in 1841 but later closed.

Flixton Primitive Methodist chapel on Main Street.
Pat Donnor December 2022
the front of Flixton Primitive Methodist chapel on Main Street
Pat Donnor December 2022
Flixton Primitive Methodist chapel
Keith Guyler 2000
datestone on Flixton Primitive Methodist chapel on Main Street. What date does it say?
Pat Donnor December 2022

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  • I’ve added pictures of the chapel in 2022 provided by Pat Donnor. Pat says, “Today it is called on N Yorks Definitive Map – Old Methodist Chapel. Chapel Farm is next door. Unfortunately the original front door as seen in Mr Guyler’s photo has been changed,

    In the book ‘East Riding Chapels and Meeting Houses’ by David and Susan Neave it is written that
    1. Wesleyan 1841, closed 1939 a house (rec. 1988)….now called Old Chapel
    2. Primitive 1821, closed 1841, cottage in 1971 ….. Old Methodist Chapel
    3. Primitive 1841, closed after 1971 (rec. 1988)

    It is very difficult to read the date on the front of the Chapel. What is the date do you think?? I would be interested to know.”

    By Christopher Hill (09/07/2023)
  • Thanks for the comment Jayah. I’ve corrected the text.

    I’ve had a look at old Ordnance Survey maps of Flixton from 1889 and 1926, and they show two Methodist chapels from different sorts of Methodists – the chapel in the picture here which is labelled Primitive Methodist and one a bit further east, close to the junction with Back Lane which is labelled Wesleyan Methodist which I guess is where you live. Sorry for the confusion.

    By Christopher Hill (09/03/2022)
  • The house in the photo is not the old chapel, it is the old methodist chapel. I in fact live down the road in the actual old chapel

    By Jayah (08/03/2022)
  • North Yorkshire Record Office, Northallerton:

    Ref. R/M/FIL: Filey Methodist Circuit Records, to include from 1886 to 1932, 1933-1936, Flixton Primitive Methodist Records.

    By Raymond E.O.Ella (03/05/2018)

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