Barwick in Elmet Methodist Church
Barwick in Elmet Methodist Church
Barwick in Elmet Methodist Church stands on The Boyle, Barwick in Elmet, West Yorkshire, a late Victorian Wesleyan chapel close to the village maypole, in the Leeds North and East Methodist Circuit.
- Location
- Barwick in Elmet, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Barwick in Elmet
- Address
- The Boyle, Barwick in Elmet, Yorkshire, LS15 4JS
- Postcode
- LS15 4JS
- Built
- Opened 1900 as the William Dawson Memorial Chapel, replacing an 1804 chapel on Chapel Lane
- Denomination
- Methodist Church
- Style
- Late Victorian Methodist chapel
- Materials
- Local sandstone with Tadcaster limestone dressings; pitch-pine interior woodwork
- Opening hours
- Open on a Sunday morning at 10:30 or please contact us to arrange a visit at a different time.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
The congregation’s National Churches Trust entry and the village history record a chapel opened in 1900 and originally named the William Dawson Memorial Chapel, after a local preacher. It replaced an earlier chapel of 1804 on Chapel Lane, later the Miners’ Welfare Institute. The building is of local sandstone with Tadcaster limestone dressings. The interior has an arched ceiling and pitch-pine woodwork. The church is not on the National Heritage List for England; the nearby parish church of All Saints is listed separately.
The chapel stands on The Boyle, described locally as one of the oldest streets in the village, within a short walk of the maypole and of the Iron Age mound and earthworks. It remains an active Methodist church in the Yorkshire West District, with Sunday worship and midweek community use.