Building Name

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Middle Street North Great Driffield

Date
1879 - 1880
Street
Middle Street North
District/Town
Great Driffield
County/Country
Yorkshire, England
Work
New Build

DRIFFIELD - The foundation and comer‑stones were laid on Wednesday week of a new Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Driffield. As the premises around the chapel are shut off from the streets of the town, the architect has confined his attention for external appearance solely to the front, and here he has placed a portico of Ionic design and semi‑ octagonal in shape, which will be constructed of Whitby stone with fillings in of pressed red bricks. Internally, the chapel will be 90 feet long, 58 feet wide, and 42 feet high from floor to centre part of ceiling. There will be a gallery all round, 5 seats deep at the sides and pulpit end, and 8 seats deep in the front gallery. The area or space in clear of the gallery fronts will be 54 feet by 29 feet The accommodation will be for 1,187 persons. Transversely the chapel will be divided into 3 widths, as nave and aisles; the nave being 32 feet wide. The organ and choir are to be placed in the gallery behind the pulpit, and there will be a staircase on each side of same, communicating with the side and end galleries and the vestries and class‑rooms in rear of the chapel. There will be seven such rooms altogether. Mr. H. J. Paull, FRIBA, of 9, Montague‑street, Russell‑square, London, and 1, St. Peter's‑square, Manchester, is the architect. The contracts amount to £5,100. [Building News 1 August 1879 page 136].

Reference    British Architect 1 August 1879 Page 46
Reference    Building News 1 August 1879 page 136
Reference    Pevsner Yorkshire: East Riding & York