Lockwood Wesleyan Methodist Church

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Also known as Mount Pleasant Wesleyan Methodist Church.

Weekly prayer meetings were held in William Schofield's house from 1770.

By the 1840s classes and prayer meetings were held in various houses in Lockwood and a Sunday School was established in 1848.

A large room at Crosland's Mill was rented and fitted up for use as a chapel and Sunday School in 1848.

Nearly all of the congregation became Wesleyan Reformers 1850-1851; only two members remained Wesleyans and they had to leave the chapel which became Wesleyan Reform. Wesleyans from the Lockwood area attended Buxton Road Wesleyan Methodist Church for some years after c1850.

A class was established in Lockwood from Buxton Road in 1870 and a Mission chapel was built in Bath Terrace 1871-1872.

A Sunday School was established in 1872.

The chapel was found to be too small especially after the congregation was joined by some people who left Rashcliffe Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1877.

A new chapel was built in Lower Mount Street 1880-1881 and the old chapel was converted into cottages after 1881.

In 1897 a Sunday School was built and opened in 1898.

The church closed in 1957 and the congregation joined Lockwood Bentley Street Methodist Church.

The chapel and Sunday School were sold to Huddersfield Borough Council in 1957 and by 1980 the Sunday School building was used as a Civic Youth Centre and the chapel building was disused; it was demolished in 1982.