Glossopdale Churches and Chapels
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Chisworth. |
A Harmonium cost £25. Jubilee services were held on November 2nd 1884 and this building continued in use until 1890 when a closing service was held on 9th March 1890.
The names of the Society Stewards from 1883 in order of their service are: William Clarke; Sam Sandiford; John Booth; Mrs. F. Sandiford ( nee Ada Rowbottom); J. E. Crowshaw & Miss E. Cooper.
It had been the intention of the Trustees to renovate the old Chapel by elevating the roof, putting in new windows and repairing the interior. When taking off the roof the walls were found to be in such bad condition as to necessitate the pulling down of the entire structure and rebuilding from the foundations, involving an outlay of £800.
The Trustees and Building Committee : Rev. J. Nowell, Mr. James Clayton, Mr. Geo. Cooper, Mr. William Clarke, Mr. Joe Clarke, Mr. Wm. Holdgate, Mr. Wm. Walton, Mr. Thos. Ollerenshaw, Mr. Enoch Hart, Mr. James Rowbottom, Mr. Geo. Rowbottom, Mr. Abel Clayton, Mr. C. Stafford, Mr. Josh Sidebottom, Mr. Jesse Robinson & Mr. Walter Bowers. The architect was Mr. J. Gibbons Sankey, Manchester. The contractors were Messrs. W. H. Bowden, Glossop and Mr. Charles Thatcher,
Mottram. The foundation stones were laid on 3rd May 1890 by Mr. James Rowbottom Esq., Alderman S. Rowbottom J.P., Mr. James Clayton and Mr. George Cooper. An address was delivered by Rev. W. F. Slater M. A. of Didsbury College and a collection taken in aid of the building fund. Opened on November 23rd 1890, the present chapel has a seating capacity for 280 people.
A new organ from Abbot & Smith, Leeds cost £550 of which £150 was donated by Lord Doverdale was installed in May 1924 and was first used on 25th May. The organist from 1924 - 1934 was Mr. A. J. Giles.
The centenary of the Chapel was celebrated in May 1934 and a procession was led by Tintwistle Band. Amongst those taking part were the late Sir Thomas Rowbottom of Stockport and the Rev. William Younger.
Chisworth Society shares a distinction with Zion in having a Day School. Mrs. M. C. Dale has been the headmistress since 1st September 1931. The school premises were greatly enhanced by the building of the New Infant's School which was generously presented to the trustees by the late James Rowbottom, J.P., and opened on September 4th 1911.
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Lee Head, Charlesworth.
The Primitive Methodists built themselves a Chapel at Lee Head in 1844.
In 1914 the building was in use as Charlesworth Liberal Club.
Etherow Brow, Broadbottom.
The Etherow Brow Chapel is one of which Broadbottom Methodists may well be proud. The one which it replaced in 1920 was also of pleasing architectural style and neatness of interior arrangement. It was in 1917 that the trustees received a notification that the Great Central Railway Company wished to purchase the land on which the building stood. it was that a new chapel and school should be erected with no cost to the trustees.
Soon after the erection of the chapel came a trade depression. Many people left the village and the cause suffered through lack of workers.
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Bank Street, Hadfield. Work on the new and imposing Sunday School and Chapel at Bank Top commenced in 1877. On 7th July ten foundation stones were laid by Miss Lucy Sidebottom (for James Sidebottom), Joseph Bailey, Charles Chambers, Samuel Rowbottom, Richard Twemlow, William Barker, James Harrop, Tom Milburn, Peter Taylor and William Swindells. |
The new chapel was opened on October 16th 1878 , it had seating for 600 persons. It had cost £4,600 of which £1,800 had been raised by subscriptions. The debt of £2,800 was paid off after 30 years. A baptismal font was given in memory of Private John Burgess who was killed on 2nd December 1917.
Inside the Chapel were memorial tablets to Alfred Shaw - a class leader at the Sunday School who died in May 1928, and Andrew N. Ninnes, also a class leader, Sunday School Superintendent and Preacher who died in March 1942 after 60 years of service to the Chapel and Circuit. There was a beautifully carved oak table and chair in memory of Joseph John Ninnes.
Evangelism and education are complementary and for upwards of seventy years until 1906 when it became a Council School, there has been a Wesleyan Methodist Day School in Hadfield.
The 150th Anniversary of the building of the first chapel in Chapel Lane was observed by the re-union gathering on Saturday October 23rd 1954 and special services on the day following.
The congregation moved to ex-retail premises at Station Road, Hadfield on 4th May 1996 where they still worship.
The Chapel building was destroyed by fire recently and has since been demolished.
Remains of Methodist graveyard, Chapel Lane, Hadfield.
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The Chapel was enlarged in 1826 costing £260 and again in 1845 costing £140. New lamps costing £2. 9s. 8d were introduced in 1829 to replace candles. This was the first Methodist Chapel to be built in the Borough of Glossop and surrounding districts. A harmonium costing £26 was given in 1853 and in 1867 a small pipe organ costing £40 was installed. The existing Chapel was proving too small for the expanding congregation, for at this time cotton mills were being built along the valley and people from other parts were coming to live in the district. In 1876 the insufficient accommodation and dilapidation convinced the Trustees to build a new church - Bank St.
Hadfield Free Methodist, Station Road, Hadfield.
In 1875 a group of local people felt the need for a local Free Methodist Chapel in Hadfield. The first site chosen was in Kiln Lane, however it was found that someone had already booked the land and so the site on Station Road was selected.
The Mason's work was done by Mr. Wright Gill of Hadfield. The original joiner got into financial difficulty and the work was finished by Cyrus Garside of Glossop.
The foundation stone was laid by Mr. T. Platt of Hadfield in October 1876. In May 1877 the opening service was held. The first Superintendent Minister was Rev.
W. L. Roberts. A Sunday School was started but this was never large enough to warrant a separate building. The first secretary was Mr. Mark Bennett who originally came from Glossop Tabernacle Chapel.
Within a short period of time extensions almost doubled the size from the original twelve pews. Local preachers included Mr. Henry Harris, Mr. Geo. Harris (who became Pastor), Mr. Albert Wilde, Mrs. McCandle a Trustee was Sunday School Superintendent.
Before World War Two congregations declined and a period of mass unemployment hit the little Chapel. War provided further difficulties and the Sunday School was stopped. In 1942 Hadfield Free Methodist Chapel was closed for good. The Chapel was proud of the fact that it had never been in debt.
The building is still in use today as Carmel Pentecostal Chapel.
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Primitive Methodist Chapel & School, Woolley Bridge Road, Hadfield. This Chapel, with School below was built in 1845 at the top of Woolley Bridge Road during the ministry of the Rev. Samuel Maddox and has seating capacity for 360 people. The original trustees were:- James Wharmby, confectioner; John Beeley, dresser; John Wilson, overlooker; Elijah Stott, dresser; James Haigh, weaver; William Chadwick, watchman; John Allcock, weaver; George Battye, grinder; John Wharmby, spinner. |
In February 1922 a war memorial was unveiled by Rev. W. C. Hunter, a former minister of the Chapel.
In 1945 a Centenary Service was held by Rev. W. Atkinson of Oldham. The organist for this service was Mrs. H. Moss. Sunday School Superintendents at this time were Mr. J. W. Hughes, 28 Bank St., Hadfield and Mr. S. Garton, 235 Woolley Bridge Road, Hadfield.
The Chapel closed in 1959 and the congregation moved to Bank Street Chapel. The last minister was Mr. Gray.
In 1961 the building was demolished but building experts said that it was "solid as a rock, made of good stone... and would have stood for centuries". A new bungalow now stands on this site.
Post Street, Padfield.
The stone laying ceremony of this fine and spacious Chapel took place on Good Friday, 26th March 1880. The Rev. Mark P. Gilbert was Superintendent Minister at the time.
On the succeeding Good Friday, 15th April 1881, the new chapel was opened for Divine worship. It had cost £1,691 and contained 250 seats.
A two-manual pedal pipe organ was installed two years after the opening of the chapel.
The year 1928 witnessed the Centenary Celebrations, for it was in the year 1828 when the first chapel was built, though preaching rooms had been used prior to this. Four hundred sat down for tea. Decorations to the School and Chapel were carried out in 1949.
Ebenezer Chapel, Tintwistle.
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New Connexion Chapel, Spring Street, Hollingworth. The history of this church goes back to the early years of the nineteenth century when the noble band of worshippers was not infrequently dispersed by mob violence. It established a Sunday School in 1811 with 60 scholars. After a notable revival of Gods work in 1823 the friends essayed the task of building a Sunday School of their own which was opened on July 10th 1825. |
There followed the building of the present chapel, an imposing structure situated on a hillside and which was opened in June 1830. The chapel suffered a tremendous blow of being burnt done on May 11th 1834. Stricken, but not dismayed, the noble Christians set about raising funds for the rebuilding of their chapel which was soon accomplished.
| Water Lane, Hollingworth. The chapel standing at the junction of Water Lane and Market Street has seating accommodation for 270. A Proprietary Trust Deed dated 24th December 1840 contains, the following names, against each one of which one of which a substantial monetary contribution is entered:- John Clayton, Hollingworth; Caleb Thompson, Marple; Thomas Walker, Hollingworth; Richard Walker, |
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| Hollingworth; Thomas Entwistle, Hollingworth; Robert Kershaw Jnr., Stalybridge; Thomas Kershaw, Stalybridge; James Bardsley, Mottram; William Howard, Hollingworth; Henry Howard, Hayfield; James Drinkwater, Dinting; Henry D. Bell, Charlesworth. |  |
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