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This profile of Newquay Chapel Hill Wesleyan Chapel has been compiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell.
(Jo Lewis)
This profile of Newquay Chapel Hill Wesleyan Chapel has been compiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell.
Located in Chapel Hill (Wesley Hill)
1852: Built as a Wesleyan Chapel following the split in the Crantock Street Methodists. The Wesleyan Reformers stayed remained in Crantock Street for a while and the Wesleyans built and moved to this chapel on what was then called Wesley Hill (now Chapel Hill).
There was also a school room.
Heritage Gateway: A Wesleyan Methodist chapel is recorded at Chapel Hill, Newquay on the 1st Edition 1:2500 1880 OS Map. Built in 1852. By 1907 the building is recorded on the 2nd Edition 1:2500 1907 OS Map as a Baptist chapel, a new Wesleyan chapel 138767 having being constructed on East Street by that date. The Hawke Brothers and Gibson, known as the Trinity Works, used the chapel as a factory from 1912 with knitting machines Second largest factory in Newquay known as the Trinity Works employing 100 workers at its peak and 50 at the outbreak of WW11. During WW11 the knitting companies had to produce utility wear at fixed prices with material rationed by the government. Many of the small companies did not survive these changes with which they were ill-equipped to cope. The Trinity Works continued until 1968 when it closed, Newquay Knitting Co. Crantock Street remained but with only 35 workers (1).https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO52241&resourceID=1020
1880 maps: Shown as a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.
There are baptism records from 1857 to 1902.
1901 letter from John Ennor to William Peter: “£20 yearly is fair value for Wesleyan chapel and schoolroom”.
1904: The congregation had become too large and a new large Chapel complex was built on East Street.
Congregation moved to East Street Wesleyan Chapel.
By 1907: Newquay Trinity Baptists moved into this building.
The chapel was purchased and altered for £1000. [The minutes indicate that this church closed in 1917 but it may have moved to the Ebenezer which by 1919 also gave its address as Chapel Hill].
1912: Became a knitting factory owned by Hawke Brothers and Gibson, and known as the Trinity Works. It was the second largest factory in Newquay employing 100 workers at its peak and 50 at the outbreak of WWII. During the war, the knitting companies had to produce utility wear at fixed prices with material rationed by the government. Many of the small companies did not survive these changes with which they were ill-equipped to cope. The Trinity Works continued until 1968 when it closed.
The Chapel and Sunday school became an adult education centre.
(Jo Lewis)
Further reading:
https://kresenkernow.org/SOAP/detail/daf65080-bc55-4868-804c-0cb7a523e9ea