Monument record MDR12758 - Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and Sunday schools (site of), Chapel Street, Ripley

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in Chapel Street, was built in 1847 at a cost of £2,000. It is a handsome brick building of the mixed order, capable of seating 800 persons, with large Sunday schools and minister's house attached. (1) There is a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel situated here on the 1st edition OS map. (2) The Wesleyan Methodists built their present chapel in 1847, at a cost of £2,000. It is a large brick building with a horseshoe gallery, affording a total accommodation for nearly 700 persons. On the wall is a marble monument to the memory of William Penny, who died in 1887, after a connection with the chapel extending over 50 years as a local preacher, class leader, and Sunday school superintendent. He bequeathed to the trustees of the chapel the sum of £1,500. Adjoining the chapel are the Centenary Memorial Sunday Schools, erected in 1889. (3) The chapel and Sunday schools have since been demolished and the site has been redeveloped in to a supermarket [2011]. (4-5)