The Churches of Britain and Ireland

Thirsk, North Yorkshire

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First Life Church meets in an old school (2023 Streetview) on Finkle Street. SE 4313 8209. Link.

Old maps show two Mortuary Chapels in the cemetery on Cemetery Road. They are labelled as Church of England at SE 4244 8243, and Nonconformist at SE 4246 8243. Neither has survived. A general view of the cemetery, from Streetview in 2009.

St. Mary. Another view. SE 4273 8232. Both © Steve Bulman. Two more views - 1, 2, the interior, St. Anne's Chapel, and the altar, all © James Murray. Link. Grade I listed.

All Saints (R.C.) on Castlegate. SE 4283 8196. © Steve Bulman. Another view, © James Murray. Link.

Presumed former church (almost opposite the Catholic Church), now a carpet shop. SE 4288 8196. © Steve Bulman. Howard Richter has advised that old maps show a "Meth. Chap." here. A directory from 1879 says Primitive Methodist, and this link says that the P.M. chapel was built in 1851, replacing an earlier building. An 1856 map has "Ebenezer Chapel" at about the right place, so this was probably originally Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Chapel. Link.

The difficult-to-photograph Friends' Meeting House. Circa SE 4281 8219. © James Murray. Access to it is down a narrow alley off Kirkgate, seen here. © Steve Bulman (2024). Link. Grade II listed, wherein it's dated to 1799.

St. James Green Methodist Church. © James Murray. Link, which says that the current church building is the former Sunday School of 1909. A map of 1912 revised in 1910 shows the chapel of the time, behind the Sunday School, and aligned at ninety degrees to it. A Streetview of 2016 shows the present church at right, and site of the preceding church, about where the blue van is. Current church - SE 4307 8235; 1910 church - SE 4309 8237.

Salem Chapel (Congl.) shows on a map of 1912 off Finkle Street at SE 4314 8206. It evidently suffered severe damage in a fire at some point, as an un-dated photo here of the aftermath shows. Whether anything of the original chapel survives is unclear, though the present building has the same footprint.

 

 

 

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