Closed and Lost Chapels in Summit and Calderbrook
There were at any one time 3 chapels in Summit and 1 in Calderbrook. When the new larger Wesleyan Providence chapel on Temperance Lane was built the earlier one was converted for use as a school.
Below are details of:
The Wesleyan Chapels
Mount Gilead
Details on the Ebenezer Chapel and Summit Primitive Methodist Chapel, both still standing, are included in the Summit History Trail
The first Wesleyan Providence Chapel (top right) was located on Temple Lane. Built in 1839, it served for 33 years before it was replaced with a new chapel on the opposite side of the road and the building was later converted into a school. After the numbers of members declined both were demolished. The original chapel was replaced by a ‘modern’ random stone building in 1961 which contains the Chapel datestone 1839. The second Wesleyan chapel (pictured below right) was built in 1872 in a prominent position across the road. Jubilee celebrations were held During April 1922. After closure and demolition it too was replaced but this time by a number of houses which occupy part of the second chapels footprint. Much of the walls which supported the chapel remain though reduced in height,.
Mount Gilead Chapel (left)
The congregation originally met in small room in 1816 but they moved into a chapel located at Smithy Nook in Calderbrook (overlooking the chapels on Temple Lane), the original chapel was extended to include a School in 1867. The school closed in 1867 and the chapel circa 1940. Its location can be clearly made out by the road from St James’s Church to Salley Street. Following demolition the date stones have been preserved by the Society and were subsequently built into the wall supporting the access path into the History Centre.
Shore, Caldermoor (Zion) and Croft
