Denby Dale Miller Hill Primitive Methodist Church

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Also known as Hill Side Primitive Methodist Church.

Jeremiah Gilbert, an itinerant Primitive Methodist preacher, preached outdoors at Denby Dale and afterwards held a prayer meeting in a house in 1821, a number of local people became primitive Methodists as a result of this visit. Denby Dale was a preaching centre in Barnsley Primitive Methodist Circuit from 1821. Members houses were used for worship including that of Thomas and Ann Kilner. A chapel was built in Miller Hill at the junction of Hollin Edge in 1837. A Sunday school was established by 1837 using the chapel premises. The chapel was enlarged in 1885 and the Sunday School built next door to the chapel in 1932 - 1933. It closed in 1962 and the congregation joined Denby Dale Centenary Methodist Church and the building was used as a printing works c1980.