Westgate Hill Wesleyan Methodist Church, Birkenshaw

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Services and meetings were held in a barn belonging to the Hargreaves family in the 1790s and a chapel was built in Westgate Hill between 1799-1800.

In 1817 a Sunday School was established using a schoolroom at the top of Hunsworth Lane and a Sunday School was built next to the chapel in 1848. The chapel was subsequently enlarged in 1859.

In 1901-1902 a new chapel was built on the same site with the Sunday School being rebuilt in 1902-1903 and subsequently enlarged c1914.

When the chapel closed in 1971, the congregation joined Bradford Road Methodist Church and the old chapel and Sunday School were demolished in 1971 after being damaged in two fires.