Southgate Primitive Methodist Church, Honley

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Honley was a preaching centre in Barnsley Primitive Methodist Circuit in 1821. The congregation used premises in Oldfield Buildings for meetings in the period before 1842. A chapel was built in Far End Lane [later called Southgate] in 1842 with the room below the chapel being used as a Sunday School. The chapel was enlarged in 1899 and a Sunday School built next door to the chapel in 1914. It closed in 1968 - 1969 and the congregation joined with High Street Methodist Church and Moorbottom Congregational Church to form a United Church, using premises at Moorbottom. The chapel was later demolished and the Sunday School building used by Honley Players as a theatre by 1990.