Houses that used to be something else.... 1

This is the first in a series of shots taken in the village of buildings that have now been converted to houses.

This former church was converted about five years ago- it also used to house the preschool that my eldest attended.

Primitive Methodist chapel


British History online records that Primitive Methodists registered a building in 1835. In the 1851 Sunday Census average attendance there on a Sunday was reckoned to be 121 people in the morning and 120 in the afternoon.

The souvenir Official Handbook of the Brinkworth and Swindon Centenary District Synod held in 1910 records that:

"The first building was erected in 1853. In 1896 a new Church and Schools were built, which are a credit to the Trustees.

Number of sittings: 172

School accommodation: 90

Number of members: 36

Total cost: £800




References

British history online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66536#n493 accessed August 2014