Image ID: 08028

Methodist Church, Prebend Passage, Southwell, 1980

Courtesy of Reg Baker

Prebend Passage
Southwell
England

This illustration appeared in T P's and Cassell's Weekly on July 18, 1925. There has been a Methodist Preaching House in Southwell since 1810. The Southwell Wesleyans, as they were then known, formerly meeting in a barn with an upturned barrel as a pulpit. Mr William Neepe of Epperstone, having been converted, helped the Wesleyans to find a suitable site to build a chapel. In 1810 Mr Neepe bought some land on Westgate, and built a tannery for his son, a house for himself, and a chapel for the Wesleyans. In 1811, a Sunday School was started, providing both religious and secular education. By 1830 the worshippers had already begun to look for a site to build a larger place of worship. They were able to buy the plot of land behind the Saracen's Head. The Chapel was opened in 1839 by Rev Dr Newton and Rev S D Waddy. In those days it was part of the Mansfield Circuit. In 1875 a Southwell Circuit was formed. In 1958 the Southwell Circuit was dissolved, and Church was incorporated into the Newark and Southwell Circuit. In 1996 a new extension was added to the front of the church, adding a 'welcome area' and church rooms.

Date: 1980

Organisation Reference: NCCE001834

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