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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: JeanH on Thursday 10 July 14 20:12 BST (UK)
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My husband has been in hospital for several weeks and travelling home on the 61 bus I keep noticing that the Medical Centre in the area is housed in a really old building with the name "The Old Chapel House. I can find no reference to this lovely old house, which is sorely in need of renovation, Does anyone know its history? I believe the area was once known as "The Bank" where a lot of my ancestors live. Thank you, Jean
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Jean
Plenty of information on the net about 'the Bank', but been trying to locate the actual building you mention without success.
Would suggest you make contact with the Yorkshireindexers: www.yorkshireindexers.info
Being Leeds based they may have better access to the history of Old Chapel House.
Regards Brian
[Hope your husband is on the road to recovery]
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Is this the building? http://goo.gl/maps/2NUDb
Stan
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No Stan, that is not the building. I will try and take a picture when I am coming home from hospital today. Thank you and Brian for trying to help.
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You mean the building on lavender walk? Tried looking on Leodis (http://www.leodis.net/) but found nothing
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This one http://goo.gl/ExAXbv
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You can see the Chapel marked on the 1891 Town Plan at http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?coords=431483,433389
Stan
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The Leeds Govt Tithe maps projects show it better
http://tithemaps.leeds.gov.uk/LargeMap.aspx?srch=&singleplot=&hlt=&hlp=&e=431500&n=433405.5&scale=0.5&tabL=L3&tabR=R1
Was chapel house associated with Methodist Chapel
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That's the one, many many thanks. It has been driving me nuts, thought I was seeing things. Now need to find out more about it and its history. Grateful thanks to all who spent time searching for this elusive Chapel.
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The Leeds Govt Tithe maps projects show it better
Was chapel house associated with Methodist Chapel
The large scale 1 in 500 Town plan shows the Methodist Chapel and the house. The Tithe map is 1:2500 scale which you can also see on http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?coords=431483,433389 select from the list on the right hand side.
Stan
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Please post when you do :D
There were a few on Upper Accommodation road (the chapel house address is number 65). One lower down at corner of Danby Walk was demolished and rebuilt where the adjacent school was
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/PhotoFrames/WRY/LeedsAccomodationRdNewbourneMethodist.html
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The house is marked as "Surgery" on the 1964 1:2500 map
Stan
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Please post when you do :D
Do you mean the photo by JeanH?
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The house is marked as "Surgery" on the 1964 1:2500 map
Stan
From http://services.english-heritage.org.uk/ResearchReportsPdfs/020_2008WEB.pdf
I think it was the Richmond Hill Wesleyan Chapel built 1848, closed 1961 and subsequently demolished. The document says there was also a Primative Methodist Chapel, but that's the one further down
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Please post when you do :D
Do you mean the photo by JeanH?
I meant
Now need to find out more about it and its history.
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http://www.yorkshireindexers.info/forum/showthread.php?5221-Old-Chapel-House
I couldn't find anything which would be helpful either ...
For sure there must be old images of Richmond Hill and the Methodist Churches ... not many (hardly any) on Leodis ...
Paul
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I think it was the Richmond Hill Wesleyan Chapel built 1848, closed 1961 and subsequently demolished. The document says there was also a Primative Methodist Chapel, but that's the one further down
From the Yorkshire Returns of the 1851 Census of Religious Worship: Richmond Hill (Wesleyan Methodist). Erected 1849, Separate and entire building, used exclusively as a Place of Worship (except for Sunday Schools). Sittings Free 550 Other 650. On 30 March Mornining General Congregation 406 Sunday Scholars 240. Evening General Congregation 446, Sunday Scholars 60 (in orchestra) ..... Signed John P. Haswell, Wesleyan Minister, Leeds.
Stan
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The Old Chapel House, Richmond Hill was where Doctor James Francis Patrick Devlin (1892-1952) lived. He was originally from Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland. He trained as a doctor in Dublin, and later practiced in Leeds. He and his wife Esther are recorded as living at the address on the 1939 England and Wales Register. My grandmother was his cousin. During the war, she went to stay with family, because Leeds was deemed safer, and less likely to be bombed compared to where she was living at the time. My grandmother was pregnant at the time, and Doctor JFP Devlin delivered my aunt.
JFP Devlin’s son John Devlin also trained as a Doctor. He took over his father’s practice.