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I just found the following info on the church which gives me a clue:
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Also known as Queen Street Wesleyan Methodist Mission and Huddersfield Methodist Mission.
Wesleyans who left Old Bank Chapel in 1797 used a warehouse at Engine Bridge for worship between 1797 - 1800. Land at Bone's Croft was leased for building chapel and manse in 1798 [this is what is now known as the corner of King and Queen Streets] A chapel was built at Bone's Croft in 1800 and the street known as Chapel Street by 1803. The chapel was enlarged twice between 1800 and 1819 and a Sunday School established in 1812 using premises in Upperhead Row for the boys and premises in King Street for the girls. The Sunday School used the Old Bank Chapel premises between 1814 - 1817 when a new chapel was built in Queen Street between 1818 - 1819 and opened in 1819. The old chapel was sold and made into a draper's warehouse. A Sunday School was built in Fountain Street in 1845.
There was a struggle for control of Queen Street chapel between members who had become Wesleyan Reformers and members who remained loyal to the Wesleyan Conference from 1850 - 1851 to 1857. For three years the Wesleyan Reformers were able to hold 'de facto' control over the chapel and they gained control of the chapel's trust in 1853. The trust ruled to be illegal and a new trust formed favouring those who opposed the Reformers 1857. This resulted in many of the main members and nearly the whole of the Sunday School leaving Queen Street in 1857. Queen Street Chapel was permanently weakened by this split and never fully recovered from it. A new Sunday School built in Queen Street near the chapel, 1865 - 1866. Chapel renamed Queen Street Mission in 1888.
The chapel was renovated in the period 1888 - 1897. It became a Mission to the Poor in a circuit on its own in 1906, by this period town-centre population was declining in size and becoming more working-class.
A new chapel was built in King Street in 1970, the Sunday School in Queen Street was demolished at about the same time.
The chapel building in Queen Street was used as an Arts Centre between 1970 - 1975 but was closed due to being unsafe, it was eventually converted into Lawrence Batley Theatre which opened in 1994.
The chapel moved to premises in Lord Street in 1998 and the chapel building in King Street was demolished in 1999. A new chapel was built in Lord Street between 1999 - 2000 and was still in existence as Huddersfield Methodist Mission in Lord Street in 2001."
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(possibly Thompson).