26. The Methodist Chapel

Methodism was active in the village from the early 1840s, but there was no place of worship until the original chapel on the existing site was built and opened on 2nd December 1849. Its founders mortgaged their own properties to enable the Chapel to be built at a cost of £120 from stone with a slate roof. The building measured 24ft x 18ft and seated 150 of which 90 were free sittings and could also accommodate another 50 standing.

The chapel was later enlarged in 1869, then demolished and replaced with the present brick building in 1892. The new building incorporated a schoolroom. The Primitive Methodist Chapel became registered to solemnize marriage on 3rd October 1902.

The Methodist Chapel became registered to solemnize marriage on 3rd October 1902.

The modern-day chapel car park was the original site of three stone and thatch cottages running alongside the Chapel building. The Methodist Chapel purchased the three cottages in 1908 for £240, the sale documents identify three tenants in the cottages with a rental income of £15 12s 0d per annum. In 1981 planning permission was granted for a car park to be built on the site of the former cottages that had long since been demolished.

There is a record of another Primitive Methodist Chapel that once existed in the village which was registered in 1861, but later removed from the register in 1876.