Report - Primitive Methodist - Doncaster - Jan 20

[Bikin Glynn]

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Working through the "P"s in my folders heres a completely empty church I did earlier this year.

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The Primitive Methodist Chapel was built during 1867 (The Builder, February 15, 1868) and is dated 1868 on a panel near the apex of the principal, north-west gable.
The chapel was designed by Mr W Watson, a well-established family firm of architects in Wakefield over at least three generations. The builder was Mr Harold Arnold.

A Doncaster Primitive Methodist Circuit was first formed in 1823, but it struggled and for a while belonged to the Sheffield and then the Scotter Circuits. It then began to prosper, largely due to John Garner, a travelling preacher, and in 1852 the Doncaster Primitive Methodist Circuit became autonomous again. At this time there were 56 local preachers and 29 preaching places, with 551 members. In 1858 the importance of Primitive Methodism in Doncaster was acknowledged with the holding of the 30th Conference in the town. In 1870 two Circuits were formed, with Balby belonging to the First Circuit.
The chapel closed its doors in 2008

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There really was nothing in here & it was not really worth the literal ball ache it was to get in. but Iv managed to rustle a report from it regardless.

Thanks For Looking​

 

[tarkovsky]

Some nice details there

 

[HughieD]

Austere but still some nice features. Nice set mate. Missed the boat with this one...

 

[Bikin Glynn]

Austere but still some nice features. Nice set mate. Missed the boat with this one...

Would of thought this hasn't changed?

 

[HughieD]

Would of thought this hasn't changed?

Think it got secured shortly after you went as we tried it.

 

[Esoteric Eric]

I was disappointed to see it like this when I finally got in after muttley/ jazzy initial reports in 2012.

 

[Bikin Glynn]

I was disappointed to see it like this when I finally got in after muttley/ jazzy initial reports in 2012.

Yeah it really wasn't worth the effort tbh but it's another one ticked off

 

[Jane Doe]

Beautiful building and some nice bits left

 

[bollockmaster]

Dunno why they ripped the floors up. It's owned by the local brexit party candidate. He's been trying to get permission to demolish it last I heard.

 

[Bikin Glynn]

Dunno why they ripped the floors up. It's owned by the local brexit party candidate. He's been trying to get permission to demolish it last I heard.

A lot of churches get stripped to bare shell then they try to sell with planning on em.
They usually sell any pews etc to make additional profit, so I'm guessing they sold all the floor boards too

 

[bollockmaster]

Yeah you're probably right mate. There was outline planning permission to convert it into flats but he was asking too much for it (250k!) A joke really because i don't think he paid half that for it. So last I heard it was going to be demolished because the plot would be worth more then owing to the fact they can get a lot more flats on it then. Probably something akin tothe Luxxor apartments just up the road .

 

[Bikin Glynn]

Yeah you're probably right mate. There was outline planning permission to convert it into flats but he was asking too much for it (250k!) A joke really because i don't think he paid half that for it. So last I heard it was going to be demolished because the plot would be worth more then owing to the fact they can get a lot more flats on it then. Probably something akin tothe Luxxor apartments just up the road .

Jees that is a lot up there. Hopefully they won't b allowed to pull it, the facade is beautiful

 

[bollockmaster]

I'm not 100% but I think permission has already been granted. There was a mention on it on the Doncaster Memories Facebook page recently.