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Other Primitive Chapels
A chapel was opened in Elwood Street on Christmas Day 1889. This was a congregation that had previously met in a variety of rented rooms in the vicinity. In 1927 new schoolrooms were built and when Gillespie Road (ex-Wesleyan) closed in 1933 the congregation joined with Elwood Street. The church was closed in 1951 and the site redeveloped as LCC flats.
Other Primitive Methodist places of worship included:
Providence Chapel, Hornsey Road (1854 – c.1857)
Anatola Rd., Dartmouth Pk. Hill, c1877. Larger chapel and school built 1883. Closed in 1936 after the opening of Archway Central Hall.
Durham Road (off Seven Sisters Road) (1877 – 1917)
Mission Hall, Story Street, Caledonian Road (1882 – 1896)
Hornsey Road. Meetings began in house in 1887, moved to Hornsey Rise mission at 21 Station Parade, Hornsey Rise in 1901, then to chapel built at 425 Hornsey Road (1908 – 1930).
Methodist New Connexion
The Methodist New Connexion was formed in 1797 by Rev. Alexander Kilham, who had been expelled from the Wesleyan ministry following his public condemnation of the leadership of the church over issues such as the administration of the Sacraments in Methodist chapels and the lack of lay participation in the government of the Wesleyan Connexion. Like Primitive Methodism it had its origins in the north of England.
In 1834 a society was formed in Islington and continued for several years meeting in private houses. It was not until 1854 that a chapel was built in Packington Street, at the junction with Arlington Street. The first minister of the chapel was the young William Booth, who went on to found the Salvation Army. Frustrated by the strictures of Circuit ministry, Booth requested the Conference of 1861 to be released to work full-time as an itinerant evangelist. When refused, he resigned from the ministry of the New Connexion. In 1865 he formed the Christian Mission in the East End of the London, which later became the Salvation Army.
During the early 20th Century the membership declined due to migration out of the area, and the chapel was kept going by the Connexion's Home Mission's Department. It survived the Methodist unions of 1907 and 1932 but membership declined after the Second World War and the church was closed in 1964.
Wesleyan Methodist Association
Another branch of 19th Century Methodism was the Wesleyan Methodist Association, formed in 1837 through the amalgamation of three smaller splinter groups. The WMA built a chapel in Charlotte (later Carnegie) Street, off Caledonian Road. Later known also as the Kings Cross Mission, the church was destroyed by a land mine in 1941 and after meeting in various temporary premises the remaining members joined King's Cross Methodist Church in 1960.
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