Are you looking for those old Methodist Chapels in Hull, this may help you....The Prims - Primitive Methodism in Hull
http://www.hullwebs.co.uk/content/j-georgians/leisure/Prims.pdf..... The Primitives first arrived in Hull under the influence of a number of women, notably Jane Brown, who had been sent by Hugh Bourne to mission to the area. She had preached at Hessle and in a building which had been a female penitentiary in
Church St, Wincolmlee, Hull. Other pioneers were Mr and Mrs Woolhouse who used a factory in
North St as a place of worship. .... North Street. Vast numbers of people attended, many influenced by curiosity, others with an intention to create disturbance, having heard of the arrival of the “Ranter preacher”; however, God was present in my first effort to make known the riches of his mercy, and the wicked were restrained, so the meeting terminated in peace and quiet.” Clowes was soon joined in his work by John Harrison and his wife Sarah, and in June of 1819 Hull and the surrounding area was formed into a circuit. By September they were ready to open their first Hull chapel, in
Mill Street. Built at a cost of £1,700, it had seating for 790 people. (Mill Street Chapel closed in 1910, and was used as a dancehall until destroyed by bombing in 1941.
Also known as West Street Chapel) A Circuit Plan of 1819 lists 19 churches, including North Cave and Market Weighton, and 15 preachers, headed by W. Clowes. It was reported that in six months three hundred people joined the society. The first Conference of the Primitives was held in Hull in 1820.
.....The Hodge family eventually moved to Hull and became very prominent in the Primitives. John, son of William, lived in
Church Street and made his house available for worship. The Society formed there moved to
Lincoln Street and built a chapel known as the Samuel Hodge Memorial Chapel.
.... Emma grew up steeped in the life of the church, attending
Little Mason Street chapel as a child. This had originally been built by the Baptists in 1822 but was sold to the Methodists in 1837. Later she attended the new church at
Bright Street on Holderness Road.
... The hey-day of chapel building began in 1849 with
Great Thornton Street in the Hull West circuit. This Italianate chapel, designed by William Sissons, was burnt down in 1856 but rebuilt. In 1851 the
Clowes Chapel in
Jarratt Street,
....In 1873 the
Henry Hodge Memorial Chapel was opened on Williamson Street, Holderness Road.
...
The Hessle Road chapel was built in 1881.
Other chapels included
St George's Road (1873),
Bourne, Anlaby Road (1869),
Fountain Road (1877),
Hodgson Street (1884),
Bethesda, Holland Street (1902),
Portobello (1906),
Hedon Road (1894) and
Sutton (1876).
....By 1881 the Prims had 14 chapels with a total capacity of 12,650.
However, despite phenomenal growth, the building programme was overambitious. Wealthy people had built the chapels but the cost of their upkeep fell on poorer members of the congregations, and they were never full.
....The Hull circuit was a powerful influence on the North of England, and at one point its territory stretched from Carlisle to Spurn Point. It existed alongside other connexions like the Wesleyans, the New Connexion and the Independent Methodists, who were all brought together by the Union of 1932.
... The last such in Hull is the
Redbourne Street Chapel.Sources include:
Journal of the Wesley Historical Society (Yorkshire Branch), September 1978
East Riding Chapels and Meeting Houses, David and Susan Neave, EYLHS, 1990
Lost Churches and Chapels of Hull, David Neave, Hutton Press Ltd, 1991
History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion, Rev. H.B. Kendall, 1888
Dictionary of National Biography
Sunset at Noonday – Memorials of Mrs J T Robson, Rev. Joseph Wood, 1872
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