Halifax Pye Nest Primitive Methodist Chapel
Upper Washer Lane, Halifax HX2 7DR
Halifax Pye Nest Primitive Methodist Chapel was unusual in that the chapel came before the society existed.
The foundation stone was laid on July 27th 1901. We are told in the 1902 Primitive Methodist magazine that “when it was started there was no society whatever and after the new premises had been opened a class of ten members was formed, three of them having previously belonged to Queen’s Road church. The building consists of a church and schoolroom and five classrooms.”
It was an innovation from the Queen’s Road society, led by Mr J Brearley, because there was no other church of any kind in the neighbourhood. Of the £3,000 cost one third came, interest free, from the Church Extension Fund. There is more detail in the magazine.
The large two storey brick built chapel is commanding a prominent position on Upper Washer Lane. There is no date for closure but it may have closed as early as the late 1960s. In the early 2000s it was being used by ‘Phoenix Socks and Hosiery’. Between 2009 and 2012 it was tastefully converted into apartments and it is how we see it today in 2022.
Above the door the words ‘Primitive Methodist’ and the date ‘1901’ can faintly be seen.
Added in October 2022 by Elaine & Richard Pearce.
Reference
Primitive Methodist magazine 1902 page 393-394
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