Building record MDR23537 - Former Sunday School to Rear of Wesleyan Methodist Church, Chapel Street, Belper

Former Sunday School to Rear of Wesleyan Methodist Church, Chapel Street, Belper, built in 1841. Extract from White's Directory (1857): 'The Wesleyan Chapel, Chapel Street, is a handsome stone building, erected in 1807, and will seat 1,400 persons. In 1841, a large school-room was erected behind the chapel, at which 100 children attend, and on Sunday, 200. In 1844, an organ was placed in the gallery behind the pulpit, and two large burial grounds are attached, with a house for the minister. The whole cost has been about £5,500.' (1) Later in the 19th century the burial ground extended to the rear of the Sunday School. (2)