Northend Primitive Methodist chapel

Mr Guyler's notes say this is Northend Primitive Methodist chapel - but see comment below for correction.
Keith Guyler 2000
former Northend Primitive Methodist chapel
Anne Langley 2017
datestone at former Northend Primitive Methodist chapel
Anne Langley 2017

Northend is north east of Kineton.  Northend Primitive Methodist chapel was opened in 1855 and closed before 1940.  At the time of Keith Guyler’s photograph in 2000 it was a cottage.

H Platt writes about the opening of the chapel in the Primitive Methodist magazine.

This is a hamlet, in Burton Dassett parish, situated near the far famed Hedge Hills. It contains about 500 inhabitants, and has a Wesleyan chapel and an Episcopal Chapel of Ease. It was missioned twelve years since by Joseph Metcalf, one of our esteemed local preachers, when the way opened for regular services, which have been held in different cottages, but all of which were inconvenient.

In October last an old house was bought, then taken down, and we commenced the erection of a small Primitive Methodist chapel. On the 20th of the same month a sermon was preached on the foundation, and on December 9th and 10th, the opening was celebrated.”

Amongst sermons preached at the opening services and tea meeting for 150 were addresses by H Platt and Miss Wilson, of London. Compared to other new chapels, North End was relatively comfortably off. “Several souls also were converted to the Lord, and our prospects are cheering”

The chapel was just off Top Street although it is not accessed by Google Street View in 2009.l  The Wesleyan chapel is clearly marked. Can anyone confirm it is still there?

Location: 393526

Anne Langley tells us more about the Northend society;

“A Primitive Methodist chapel was built in Top Street with a plaque saying ‘PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL ERECTED 1855’. The sides (and probably the front originally) were built of the attractive local ironstone with some dentilation at the top of the side walls; the roof is slate. It had 73 sittings and the cost was £132. It belonged to the Leamington Circuit. It appears in Warwickshire trade directories from 1874-1908 and on the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps (1880s-1900s) but was no longer a chapel by the 1950s. The building still stands in good condition; it is now called ‘Old Chapel Cottage’ and fortunately someone has demolished the brick extension (shown in Keith Guyler’s photo) to reveal the front of the chapel. The brickwork on the front has recently been painted white.

Sources: WCRO, circuit records CR 1688/53; Warwickshire trade directories; OS maps; site visit 2017″

Comments about this page

  • Thanks for the information; hope you can keep the inscription.

    By Christopher Hill (17/05/2020)
  • Hello,

    Keith Guyler’s photo is a different building.

    In other news, thank you for this information. I live at Chapel Cottage (the “old” isn’t relevant) and I’m planning on replacing the stone facia.

    I was never entirely sure what the first word was.

    A. Theist. Northend.

    By A. Theist. (12/05/2020)
  • Thanks to Anne Langley for the recent picture of Northend chapel.  Has the photograph been taken from the opposite end of the chapel or has the extension been taken down?

    By Christopher Hill (14/01/2018)

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