Bethesda Chapel, Rillington

The Bethesda Chapel is a historic building in Rillington, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

George Sykes was a preacher with the Wesleyan Methodist Church, but in the 1810s left the church. In 1818, he established a Congregationalist chapel in Rillington.[1] The building was restored in 1875, and the chapel was active until 1989, following which it was converted into a house.[2] The building has been grade II listed since 1966.[3]

The chapel is built of limestone on a sandstone plinth, with sandstone dressings, quoins and a pantile roof. The front has two storeys and three bays, and is gabled with the date in a roundel. The ground floor contains two round-headed windows of voussoirs flanking a lunette, and on the upper floor are three round-headed windows. Along the sides are lunettes under semicircular arches, and a paired modillion eaves course.[3][4]

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References

  1. ^ "Obituary". Supplement to the Evanglical Magazine. 1823.
  2. ^ Neave, David; Neave, Susan (1990). East Riding Chapels and Meeting Houses. East Riding Local History Society. ISBN 9780900349447.
  3. ^ a b Historic England. "Bethesda Chapel, Rillington (1315779)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  4. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Neave, David (1995) [1972]. Yorkshire: York and the East Riding. The Buildings of England (2 ed.). New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09593-7.

54°09′29″N 0°41′42″W / 54.1581°N 0.6951°W / 54.1581; -0.6951

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