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Description: | Undated. One of a set of coat-of-arms postcards produced for Barnes' newsagents of South Queen Street in late Edwardian times. This shows the two buildings of the Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Chapel near the bottom of Fountain Street at the junction with Oddfellow Street. The older building on the right dates from the 1860s. It was originally built as a chapel to replace the Ebenezer Corn Mill at the other side of the road at the bottom of Hunger Hill, which was used as a place of worship for a time and later became the printing works of Butterworth and Pilkington. Then this 1860s building became the Sunday School after the imposing building on the corner of Oddfellow Street went up in 1889.
By this time the Ebenezer was one of the most successful places of worship in Morley. It was chosen for a large Primitive Methodist Conference in 1910 and during the First World War both Mayors of Morley, Brian Bradley Barker (1913-1916) and John Stockdale (1916-1919), attended the Ebenezer. The chapel was designed by Mr. T. A. Buttery who had an architect's practice in the Exchange Buildings near the market. Forty years later in November 1926 he also became Mayor of Morley. Mr. Buttery seemed to be a favourite designer for the Methodist Circuit since the designs of the Bethel and of Banks Hill chapels look very much like this second Ebenezer as do some others at Ardsley and Drighlington. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Fountain Street Ebenezer Chapel | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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