Lingdale Primitive Methodist chapel
High Street Lingdale TS12 3EX
The 1897 Primitive Methodist magazine tells us that the village of Lingdale was experiencing a growing population and the Primitive Methodist society wanted to take advantage. They had purchased land for a new chapel and intended to get on with the work at once.
The 1893 Ordnance Survey map shows there was already a Primitive Methodist chapel in the village – on Lingdale Road, to the west of the housing west of Moorcock Row.. It has disappeared from OS maps by the 1913 survey: was it closed when the new chapel opened? The area in which the building was located is still clear of any buildings, as is the field itself in 2023.
They did built the new chapel in 1897 and in 2023 it still stands on High Street in residential use. It still carries it’s inscribed stone – Primitive Methodist Jubilee chapel AD 1897.
The 1897 Chapel is the only Lingdale Methodist Chapel mentioned in the 1940 Methodist Buildings Statistical Returns. In the Returns the 1897 chapel is called Jubilee, and described as brick built, seating 200 persons on pews and with one schoolroom in addition to the main church.
Ordnance Survey maps show a further Methodist chapel in Lingdale. on the corner of Scarth Street now the site of Prospect Park. It is shown on the 1893 map so predates the Prim chapel. It is labelled as a Methodist church on the 1927 map but is not in the 1940 Listing of Methodist Buildings. Was that Wesleyan or another brand?
Reference
Primitive Methodist magazine 1897 page 395
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