Building record 438/21/0 - Friar's Green Methodist Chapel

Independent Methodist Chapel. The first chapel at 'Friar's Green' was built in 1802 for a society of Independent Methodists formed of Quakers and Wesleyan Seceders originally designated Quaker Methodists'. The present chapel, which stands on the same site, was built in 1859-60 but it has been much altered. In 1879 a floor was inserted at gallery level and the lower storey converted to school-rooms; it was further altered in 1912. In 1938 the whole structure was strengthened by thickening some of the outer walls and adding many buttresses.
The chapel has brick walls with two tiers of round-arched windows with keystones and impost blocks. The end bays of the East front are gabled. Some traces of the former gallery structure remain.
Monuments inside the chapel include:
[1] James Whittle, 1816, and Ann his widow, 1822, cast iron tablet;
[2] Peter Philips, 1853, itinerant preacher. (1).

<1> Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME), 1994, An Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in the North of England, Lancashire Number 260 (Book). SCH4548.