The Churches of Britain and Ireland

Hoyland, including Hoyland Common and Nether Hoyland, South Yorkshire.

Hoyland on Wikipedia.


Bethany Chapel (Hoyland Christian Fellowship) stands on High Croft. SE 3739 0045. It was seen by Streetview in 2018.

The former Christchurch (Methodist) was built on Hoyland Road in 1894 as Wesleyan, a re-build of an earlier chapel of 1861. It seems to have been active into the late 1950's at least. SE 3575 0022. © David Regan (2021).

John Knowles Memorial Chapel (Free Church of England) on High Street has a date-stone for 1912. SE 3733 0060. Both © David Regan (2021).

A Chapel is shown on old maps on Market Street, at SE 3734 0062. The O.S. grid reference on Genuki identifies it as this Market Street chapel, and as Methodist, and includes a photo. Unfortunately, neither Genuki or O.S. maps specify which flavour of Methodism it was, but it pre-dates a map of 1905, and survived as a church into the 1950's at least. A photo on Geograph is available here, where it's described as Wesleyan, and an old photo from circa 1960 can be seen here. This document mentions a St. Paul's Methodist as having been built in 1809 - that this was the same chapel has been shown by Andy Lusis who has discovered a 1930's newspaper cutting which locates St. Paul's Methodist Church on Market Street, as well as a large-scale map which names it. Another edition of the paper (the Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express), also from the late 1930's, says that the church adopted the name of St. Paul's in 1932. A shop now stands on the site, seen here by Streetview in 2021. Earlier Streetviews show that the building survived until 2014, and had gone by July 2016. The present Methodist Church stands a little further north on Market Street. SE 3726 0070. © David Regan (2021). A 2024 newspaper article says that the church " has been vacant for a number of years", and that plans were afoot to demolish it. The most recent Streetview of 2024 shows that it was still standing at that time.

The former Mission Church stands at the junction of Hoyland Road and Tinker Lane, at SE 3571 0025. Pre-dating a map of 1905, it's now a community centre. © David Regan (2021).

A small and unprepossessing (former?) Mortuary Chapel has a date-stone for 1935, and stands in the cemetery on Kirk Balk. SE 3648 0080. © David Regan (2021).

The site (grass and adjacent road) of the demolished Mount Tabor Primitive Methodist Chapel, on King Street and Southgate. SE 3750 0055. © David Regan (2021). Link advises of closure in the 1960's.

The Primitive Methodists had at least two other places of worship. The first opened in Tinker Lane in 1866 (source), where Tranmoor Court is today, and seems to have gone out of use around the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. Circa SE 3564 0030. By 1903 they had moved to a new chapel which stood at the junction of Hoyland Road and Stead Lane, at SE 3589 0029, and it remained in use until at least the late 1950's. Its site has been put down to grass. Both © David Regan (2021).

Sacred Heart and St. Helen (R.C.) on West Street. It's dated here to 1928-9, preceded by an earlier R.C. Chapel & School (1897) on almost the same site. SE 3695 0058. © Michael Bourne. Link.

St. Andrew was built on Market Street in 1889-90. SE 3718 0082. © David Regan (2021). Church website, and its history page.

St. Peter on Hawshaw Lane. Another view. Its grade II listing dates it to 1830. SE 3634 0079. Both © David Regan (2021). Link.

A Salvation Army Church stands on Central  Street. SE 3565 0024. © David Regan (2021). Link.

The site of a demolished United Methodist Chapel on Chapel Street. The National Archives reference documents pertaining to the chapel for the years 1901-71. SE 3586 0009. © David Regan (2021).

Another demolished United Methodist stood on King Street and Bethel Street, which suggests that the chapel may have been Bethel too. Flats now stand on the site. This source (scroll down) advises of closure in the 1960's. SE 3755 0058. © David Regan (2021).

 

 

 

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