Engravings of Sion Chapel, Wade Street, Halifax and Hanover Street Chapel, King Cross Lane, Halifax
Taken from "Concise History of the Parish and Vicarage of Halifax".
Author: John Crabtree
Date: 1836
Location: King Cross
Format: Print
Document ID: 101061
Library ID: 28054617
Page 342 of "Concise History of the Parish and Vicarage of Halifax" by John Crabtree, 1836.
Engravings of Sion Chapel, Wade Street, Halifax and Hanover Street Chapel, King Cross Lane, Halifax. Both drawn by J. Horner and engraved by Whimper.
Sion Congregational Chapel was an Independent chapel built in 1819, with seats for over 1000 and a schoolroom in the basement. New school buildings were added in 1846 and 1866. David Livingstone gave a sermon and a lecture here in 1857. In 1959, the chapel and the school closed. The building was dismantled in 1984 and rebuilt with the facade included in the new Halifax Bus Station.
Hanover Street Methodist Chapel was originally constructed as a Chapel of the Methodist New Connexion in 1835. The chapel closed in 1943 and the building was bought by the Thespians for £2,500 in 1945, and converted into the Halifax Playhouse. The original covenant prevented the sale of alcohol on the premises, but this was overturned in 1977 by mutual consent between the trustees of the Chapel and the Thespians. Still running as a theatre today [2003].
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