The 1879 Primitive Methodist magazine contains a note of the opening of a new Primitive Methodist chapel at Wickersley in the Rotherham station. They had raised over half of the cost.
The 1892 Ordnance Survey map shows a Primitive Methodist chapel on the south side of Bawtry Road just east of its junction with Morthen Road. There is a modern Methodist church building on the site on Street View (undated).
Reference
Primitive Methodist magazine 1879 page 252
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Wickersley Parish Council has a little more information on their website.
Methodism in Wickersley
There must have been nonconformists in the parish by the beginning of the 19th century but they probably worshipped at the Methodist chapel at Bramley.
In 1806 John Styring’s house at Wickersley (35 Morthen Rd, one of the ‘Round Houses) was licensed as a place of worship for “protestant dissenters” and a Methodist chapel was built on Wood Lane in 1828.
A Primitive Methodist chapel was erected on Bawtry Road in 1842 and re-placed with a larger building in 1876. The two congregations remained separate after the Methodist Union of 1932 until the present chapel was built in 1967.
https://www.wickersleypc.org.uk/religion-and-churches
Hello Geoff,
Thank you so much for your prompt and helpful reply. Next stop the Archives and local studies centre.
Jane,
Wickersley Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was a different chapel to the Primitive Methodist Chapel. Any records that survive for the Wesleyan chapel would be located within Rotherham Archives and Local Studies Centre.
Hello,
Would this be the Wickersley Weslyan Chapel that our ancestors were married in in 1910 (Hides and Fox) ? If so where would any records now be held. If you can help that would be great.
It would be good to add a picture to the site Katie and learn the names on the other memorial stones. You can send a picture to enquiries@engleseabrook.org.uk.
I have a poor quality photograph of the second Primitive Methodist Chapel built on this site and a photocopy of the inside.
There are four founding stones which are still in existence, placed within the existing stone wall. One was laid by my 3x great grandfather: William Roddis, stone quarry owner 1878. Another was laid by John Varah and there are two more which I need to double check (before giving you false information) as the names are worn. Some of my ancestors were Primitive Methodist Preachers and appear on your website; one being George Normandale 1819-1875 and another of my 3x great grandfathers and perhaps the inspiration for the spread of Primitive Methodism in Wickersley.
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