---
title: "Bullhouse Chapel, Millhouse Green"
description: "Located in Millhouse Green, Yorkshire. Built Opened 18 April 1692. Grade II. Late 17th-century dissenters chapel style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Independent","Yorkshire","Millhouse Green","Penistone","Grade II","Dissenters chapel"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/bullhouse-chapel-millhouse-green"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:18:50.362Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T00:33:28.566Z"
location: "Millhouse Green, Yorkshire"
country: "England"
county: "Yorkshire"
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"
openingHours: "Please contact us to arrange a visit."
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1314708"
gridReference: "SE 211 026"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# 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.

## 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.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1314708](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1314708)
- [British Listed Buildings: Bullhouse Chapel](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101314708-millhouse-dissenters-chapel-and-former-minsters-house-at-bullhouse-penistone)