Northumberland Street Primitive Methodist Church, Huddersfield

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Originally Spring Street Primitive Methodist Church.

Primitive Methodism first arrived in Huddersfield in 1820 when William Taylor, an itinerant Primitive Methodist preacher, was arrested for preaching in the Market Place. Huddersfield was a preaching centre in Barnsley Primitive Methodist Circuit in 1821 and became an established circuit in 1824 but it is uncertain where meetings were held at this period. The congregation used premises in Upperhead Row in 1830. A chapel was built in between Spring Street and Spring Place in 1836 and a Sunday School was established 1837. The congregation had to move from the Springwood area because of the building of the railway in the later 1840's, which entailed demolition of the chapel in Spring Street. A new chapel was built in Northumberland Street between 1846 - 1847 and closed in 1957. The buildings to the YMCA, the chapel was demolished in 1962. The Sunday School is still in use by the YWCA.