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The Wesleyan Methodists are numerous and popular, and date their origin from John and Charles Wesley, who commenced their pious labours at Oxford about the year 1730. After meeting some time in a house in Pelham Street, they erected the Tabernacle in 1762, but in 1782 they sold it to the General Baptists. They went from the Tabernacle to Hockley Chapel, a large and handsome brick building, which they erected in 1782, at the foot of Goosegate. Their numbers being greatly increased in 1798, they erected Halifax Chapel, Halifax Place, Pilchergate, being 84½ feet long, and 53 feet broad, exclusive of the vestry and other conveniences, and will seat about 1,600 persons.
The Broad Street Chapel is the largest dissenting place of worship in the town, except the new Catholic Church, being 97 feet 8 inches by 64 feet, with galleries all round, and will seat 1,927 persons, of which 500 are free. The first stone was laid on Monday October 20th 1838 by Wm. Herbert Esq., and it was opened on the 20th of June 1839. The following Sunday, £1,286 5s 10½d was collected at the services. Underneath the chapel are two large schoolrooms, with five vestries adapted to various uses. The cost of the building was upwards of £9,000, and since its erection, the Hockley Chapel has been occupied by the Primitive Methodists.
These were separated from the Wesleyans in 1797, and were in possession of Hockley Chapel till 1816, when they built their present large and handsome chapel in Lower Parliament Street, which was enlarged in 1825. Rev. Alexander Kilburn, their founder, died December 20th 1798, and was interred in the Hockley Chapel, and a tablet erected to his memory, which was removed in 1816 to the new chapel.
The Primitive Methodists have a large chapel in Canaan Street, erected in 1823, and also the Hockley Chapel, which belonged to the Wesleyans till 1839, both having Sunday Schools.
They have a neat chapel in Kent Street, erected in 1839. It is seated on an inclined plane, and will accommodate about 400 persons, and has Sunday School rooms below the chapel.
White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853.
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