Old Methodist Chapel - South Street

[popt]

Does anyone know anything about the Old Methodist Chapel that used to exist on the old South Street in the Park district.

I believe it was very close to the end of Granville Lane and believe it closed circa 1928.

I'm particularly interested in the names of the Lay Preachers and the type of Methodism.

Appreciate any help. PopT

[vox]

Does anyone know anything about the Old Methodist Chapel that used to exist on the old South Street in the Park district.

I believe it was very close to the end of Granville Lane and believe it closed circa 1928.

I'm particularly interested in the names of the Lay Preachers and the type of Methodism.

Appreciate any help. PopT

Is this it PopT ?

SH LINK

[Guest purplejumper]

Is this it PopT ?

SH LINK

The Methodist Church on Shrewsbury Road belonged to the United Methodist Free Church denomination.

There maybe Circuit Plans (with lists of preachers) held at the Rylands Museum in Manchester.

[SteveHB]

The Methodist Church on Shrewsbury Road belonged to the United Methodist Free Church denomination.
There maybe Circuit Plans (with lists of preachers) held at the Rylands Museum in Manchester.

According to the Sheffield City Council site .. https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/out--about/parks-woodlands--countryside/parks/city-district-local-parks/cholera-monument-grounds/norfolk-heritage-trail.html
"The Sweet Factory;
This small stone building was originally a non-conformist chapel or sunday school, but was then a sweet factory well into the 20th century".


Shrewsbury Road, near to the end of Granville Lane .. Flash Earth

[Guest Falls]

Does anyone know anything about the Old Methodist Chapel that used to exist on the old South Street in the Park district.

I believe it was very close to the end of Granville Lane and believe it closed circa 1928.

I'm particularly interested in the names of the Lay Preachers and the type of Methodism.

Appreciate any help. PopT

Hello,

I remember this building well, as it was across Shrewsbury Road from our Doctor's surgery. In my early childhood (say the1940's) it was empty: however, at the end of the war, it became a tyre depot. Big wooden doors were fitted where the front entrance used to be.

On my last visit to the area, the church had been demolished but the front yard had been kept and used as a sort of lookout. You always had good view of the city from there. The location was always the coldest and windiest place in winter.

I never knew what happened to the congregation. I always assumed those that were left moved along the street to Talbot Street Methodists.

As for the records, a good place to try is the Victoria Hall on Norfolk Street. Methodist Churches used to be organized in to various "circuits" and back then, Victoria Hall was headquarters for one or more of these.

Regards

[Guest plain talker]

There was a purpose built chapel at the very top of Shrewsbury Road, at the junction with south street, above the building which had become a sweet factory by the 1970s.

I'm having a trawl to see if I can find a picture of it. will post the linky when/if I locate it.

[Guest plain talker]

after something of a trawl through Picture Sheffield, I have found the pictures I am looking for, of the chapel I am thinking of:-

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and

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the chapel stood approximately here:- (Google Streetview)

 

[Alastair]

[MartinR]

The United Methodist Free Churches was formed in 1857 by the union of the Wesleyan Association and the Wesleyan Reformers.  In 1907 the United Methodist Free churches joined with the Bible Christian Church and the Methodist New Connexion to form the United Methodist Church.  Finally in 1932 the United Methodists, the Primitive Methodists and the Wesleyan Methodists united to form the Methodist Church.

So the Shrewsbury Road Chapel would have started as United Methodist Free Church shortly after the sect's formation.  After 1907, and even more so after 1932 there was often a duplication of chapels in an area.  Membership of all branches of Methodism peaked at 841,000 in 1910 but by 2019 was down to 170,000.  The first half of the 20thC saw amalgamations of chapels as congregations shrank and there was both no need for nor money for the duplicate chapels.  Redundant chapels were sold off either for reuse or for demolition and redevelopment.  Where congregations combined the better building would be retained, often the larger Wesleyan chapel.  However this has proved a problem in itself as maintaining a 1200 seater chapel for a congregation 60 is financially impossible.