Category Archives: Featured Chapel

Featured Chapel: Memorial Baptist Chapel, Hastings, East Sussex

Posted on August 29, 2025 by Matt Davis

Matt Davis pieces together some hidden history on the south coast… Thomas Elworthy (1826–1899) is little known outside his adopted home town of Hastings, East Sussex, but he was a key part of civic life throughout the Victorian era. He … Continue reading →

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Featured Chapel: Rutland Hall, Hove, Sussex

Posted on August 8, 2024 by Matt Davis

Matt Davis takes a look at a neat little chapel in his home town… Poets Corner is a densely built network of terraced streets north of Portland Road in what was originally the parish of Aldrington, annexed by Hove Borough … Continue reading →

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Featured Chapel: Lapworth Community Church (The Lees Chapel)

Posted on February 28, 2024 by Matt Davis

Matt Davis visits the Warwickshire–West Midlands borderlands… Any chapel-crawlers alighting at the lightly-used Lapworth railway station in Warwickshire are probably visiting the famous Umberslade Baptist Church – one of the exemplars of Victorian Birmingham’s Nonconformist confidence, now owned by the … Continue reading →

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Sunnyhill Church, Corfe Mullen

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Matt Davis

Matt Davis finds an eye-catching chapel with an interesting history… Corfe Mullen is a pleasant place on the Dorset Heaths: a large village on the cusp of being a small town, and indeed Town Council status has recently been sought. … Continue reading →

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High Flatts Quaker Meeting House

Posted on October 31, 2021 by cs-admin

Past President Tim Grass makes an unexpected discovery… Brown signs to tourist destinations can take you down some unexpected turnings. Along the A629 between Penistone and Huddersfield, a brown sign points down a narrow lane to a Friends’ Meeting House. … Continue reading →

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Ebenezer Strict and Particular Baptist Chapel, Headingley

Posted on June 27, 2021 by cs-admin

Ebenezer Particular Baptist Chapel stands in a garden, set back from Grove Lane which, despite its name, is a busy road connecting the Leeds suburbs of Meanwood and Headingley, screened behind trees and scrub. The trees which screen the chapel … Continue reading →

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Unitarians – plain and fancy

Posted on February 7, 2021 by cs-admin

Alec Hamilton writes about Arts & Crafts Churches – and chapels! Just because it’s called Arts & Crafts Churches doesn’t mean my book (published by Lund Humphries in 2020) has no chapels in it. Far from it. But a book … Continue reading →

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True Jesus Church, Portsmouth – Matt Davis

Posted on December 20, 2020 by cs-admin

From Dance Hall to Church: 100 years of 114 North End Avenue, Portsmouth The True Jesus Church is an independent Pentecostal Church founded in Beijing in 1917.  There are more than 1 million adherents in China, and congregations have been … Continue reading →

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Bath Street Chapel, Huddersfield

Posted on October 31, 2020 by cs-admin

The chapel in Bath Street, Huddersfield, must have the most unusual chapel history in the whole of Britain. Although for part of its history it was home to religious congregations, it was built as the Huddersfield Hall of Science by … Continue reading →

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Ainsworth Chapel

Posted on March 26, 2020 by cs-admin

Ainsworth Chapel stands within the village of Ainsworth, which lies between Bolton and Bury and north of Radcliffe in the old county of Lancashire, but now within Greater Manchester. It is one of a number of chapels in the area … Continue reading →

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