Southlands Methodist Church

Southlands Methodist Church

Southlands Methodist Church
53°56′57.5″N 1°5′6.9″W / 53.949306°N 1.085250°W / 53.949306; -1.085250Coordinates: 53°56′57.5″N 1°5′6.9″W / 53.949306°N 1.085250°W / 53.949306; -1.085250
Location York
Country England
Denomination Methodist
Website southlandsmethodist.org.uk
Architecture
Architect(s) Charles Bell
Groundbreaking 1 October 1886
Completed 13 October 1887
Construction cost £6,641

Southlands Methodist Church is a Victorian Methodist church near Bishopthorpe Road in York.

History

The foundation stones were laid on 1 October 1886 by Sir W G McArthur KCMG, the Lord Mayor of York, the City Sheriff and other aldermen. It was designed by the architect Charles Bell.[1] It was "the third great Wesleyan chapel" built within York in a short period of time[2] when it opened as 'Southlands Chapel' on 13 October 1887. It has twin towers on either side of an ornamental window and is built of white Walling Fen brick. There was accommodation for 750 persons in a large central hall with fifteen schoolrooms opening upon it; the cost was £6,641 (equivalent to £666,001 in 2015).[3]

An organ was installed in 1893 at a cost of £438 (equivalent to £43,811 in 2015).[3] In 1920 a hall was erected to provide accommodation for the Young Men's Association and other recreational activities; it is a memorial to church members who fell in the First World War and cost £1,753[4] (equivalent to £63,502 in 2015).[3]

In 1905 the membership of Southlands was hit when the York locomotive works moved to Darlington, with the relocation of 2000 workers.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ "New Wesleyan Chapel in York". York Herald. York. 14 October 1887. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 Royle, E. (1987). Nonconformity in Nineteenth Century York. Borthwick Publications. p. 21
  3. 1 2 3 UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2016), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.
  4. ↑ "A History of the County of York: the City of York"
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