Bullhouse Chapel, Millhouse Green
Bullhouse Chapel, Millhouse Green
Bullhouse Chapel on Bullhouse Lane, Millhouse Green, near Penistone, is a Grade II Independent dissenters’ chapel opened on 18 April 1692. It has remained unaffiliated to any denomination and is among the oldest Nonconformist chapels still meeting in its original building.
- Location
- Millhouse Green, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Millhouse Green
- Address
- Bullhouse Lane, Millhouse Green, Yorkshire, S36 9NF
- Postcode
- S36 9NF
- Built
- Opened 18 April 1692
- Denomination
- Independent
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Late 17th-century dissenters chapel
- Materials
- Deeply coursed stone with stone slate roof
- Grid reference
- SE 211 026
- Opening hours
- Please contact us to arrange a visit.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England lists Millhouse, Dissenters Chapel and former Minister’s house at Bullhouse (1314708), designated 23 June 1965. The chapel is dated 1692, built for Elkanah Rich of Bullhouse Hall; a cottage was added slightly later. The fabric is deeply coursed stone under a stone slate roof: a single-storey, five-bay rectangle with a two-storey cottage attached. A central gabled porch has an elliptical-headed entrance; the inner doorway has a shallow segmental head with the inscribed keystone APRIL 18 ANOD 1692. Windows are double-chamfered cross-windows with round-arched lights. Inside are a plaster ceiling, three cased tie-beams on stone corbels, a hexagonal panelled pulpit (probably original) with tester, and nineteenth-century pews.
Parish and Penistone Archive accounts state that after the death of the Puritan vicar Henry Swift of Penistone, Elkanah Rich built a chapel in his own grounds. The first minister, David Denton, was said to have a congregation of 200. The chapel stands in a group of seventeenth-century buildings around Grade II* Bullhouse Hall.