Clarkson
Street Primitive Methodist Chapel
Walking
down Benezet Street away from Bramford Road,
one comes across this chapel on the Clarkson Street / Wilberforce
Street junction. The view on the left shows the primary school (sadly,
no visible lettering) down the hill of Wilberforce Street, presumably
originally connected to the chapel.
2012 images
It was founded in 1876. It closed before 1953. The Primitive Methodist
church was an early 19th century (1807) secession from the Wesleyan
Methodist church and was particularly successful in evangelising
agricultural and industrial communities at open meetings. In 1932 the
Primitive Methodists joined with the Wesleyan Methodists and the United
Methodists to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain. This chapel
is in 2012 a community centre.
The building features some curious commemorative foundation stones,
featuring a well-known printing and publishing name from Norwich. It is
quite possible that this is Samuel Jarrold, one of four sons of the
founder of the famous firm: John Jarrold II.
On the Clarkson Street frontage:
'THIS
STONE WAS LAID
BY
SAMUEL JARROLD ESQ
OF
NORWICH
-
CATTERMOLE
AND EADE
ARCHI[TECTS]'
'THIS STONE WAS LAID
BY THE
REV
D.
WILLIAM ROWE
PRESIDENT OF CONFERENCE
JULY 2ND 1874.
-
EDMUND S.
SHIELDS } CIRCUIT
WILLIAM E.
NOBBS }
MINISTERS.'
On the Wilberforce Street side, beneath two obliterated lines of
characters:
'THIS
STONE WAS LAID
BY
MISS S.E. WALES
OF WANGFORD'
Very faint, but we think it says:
'THIS
STONE WAS LAID
BY
MR THOMAS BUTCHER
OF
IPSWICH
-
ROBERT
GIRLING
BUILDER'
Another Primitive Methodist Chapel with a lettered,
dated (1839) tablet stands in Rope Walk,
although that is now a Seventh Day Adventist Church.
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