Building record 7091 - Congregational Chapel, Great Boughton

A Congregational Chapel in Great Boughton, Chester. The chapel originally opened in 1866 on the adjacent site before moving to the current site in 1873, closed in 1976 and has since been converted into a commercial premises (7).

The chapel is present on the first edition OS Map and Town plan of 1874 (2), (3). It appears that the chapel was demolished and subsequently rebuilt between 1874 and 1899, as second and third edition OS Maps of 1899 (4) and 1911 (5) show a church is a slightly different location with an attached school building (6).

<1> Smithson, A.M., 2010, 'An Army of Ordinary People': religious Nonconformism in Chester and South-West Cheshire 18th-20th Centuries (Unpublished Report). SCH6834.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ4213 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1872-1875, Metric Ten Foot Scale Town Plan of Chester, SJ4213 (Maps and Plans). SCH6780.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1896-1898, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ4213 (Maps and Plans). SCH3848.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ4213 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

<6> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Nash, Jonathan, 25/9/2012 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

<7> Lewis C.P & Thacker A.T. (eds), 2005, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume Vii, The City of Chester - The City of Chester, Culture, Buildings, Institutions (Book). SCH6522.