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Norfolk Street Wesleyan Chapel, Sheffield II <0^' s v ^ *>"" UCSB LIBRARY ^-36 SO 3 NORFOLK STREET WESLEYAN CHAPEL SHEFFIELD Norfolk Street Wesi.eyan Chapel, Sheffield. i Chapei prepared i ir Closing Me: Norfolk Street Wesleyan Chapel, Sheffield Being a History of this Famous Sanctuary : together with an account of the earlier and later History of Methodism in the town and neighbourhood BY THE REV. T. ALEXANDER SEED AUTHOR OF "ZINZENDOKF: A PIONEER OF SOCIAL CHRISTIANITY, "JOHN AND MARY FLETCHER: TYPICAL METHODIST SAINTS," ETC. Illustrated by numerous Portraits and Pictures Printed and Published lor the Committee of the Sheffield Wesleyan Mission by JARROLD & SONS, 10 & u, WARWICK LANE, E.C. (All Rights Reserved) "Lord, I have loved the' habitation of Thy house, and the place where Thine honour dwelleth."—Psalm xxvi. 8. "Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces ; that ye may tell it to the generation following." — Psalm xlviii. 12, 15. " One generation shall praise Thy works to another, and shall declare Thy mighty acts." — Psalm cxlv. 4. ©ebicafion. TO MY WIFE, A SHEFFIELD METHODIST OF THE THIRD GENERATION. — —; CONTENTS. IHAPTPK PAGE PREFACE - - - - - XV. I. INTRODUCTORY SHEFFIELD IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY I II. EARLY HISTORY OF SHEFFIELD METHODISM - 15 III. THE BUILDING AND ENLARGEMENTS OF NOR- FOLK STREET - " " " 39 IV. SOME FAMOUS MINISTERS - - 56 V. NOTABLE WORKERS AND WORSHIPPERS - 99 VI. MEMORABLE EVENTS AND INCIDENTS - - 151 VII. CHARACTERISTICS I, A Reading People ; 2, The Musical Service ; 3, Beneficent Activities ; 4, Care of the Young Sunday School—Band of Hope, &c. ; 5, Adapta- bility - - - - 176 VIII. OFFSHOOTS AND DEVELOPMENTS — Carver Street ; Bridgehouses ; Atterclifle ; Ebenezer Park; Brunswick; Heeley ; Wesley College; Mont- gomery ; Ellesmere Road ; Trinity, Highfields ; Trinity, Firth Park Road ; Victoria ; Fulwood Road ; Ranmoor ; Burngreave Road ; Walkley ; St. John's; St. Luke's; Crookes - - 235 xi. £• Contents CHAPTER PAGE IX. CLOSING SCINES AND TRANSFORMATIONS - 279 X. APPENDICES 1. MINISTERS APPOINTED TO NORFOLK STREET CIRCUIT, 1765 to 1896 - 301 2. EXTRACTS FROM STEWARDS* ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1773 tO 1805 - 306 3. EXTRACTS FROM MR. HOLy's ACCOUNT BOOKS, 17S0 tO 1S25 - - 314 4. CIRCUIT PLANS - - - 316 5. MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS, 1 782 to 1834 - - 319 6. SHEFFIELD EAST BUILDING SCHEME, 1864 to 1872 - - - 321 XII. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Norfolk Street Wesleyan Chapel, Sheffield (Exterior) Frontispiece Norfolk Street Chapel prepared for Closing Meeting (Interior) FAC PAG] Second Preaching House I- Mulberry Street Chapel 17 Residence of Wm. Woodhouse, Fulwood 23 The Ladies' Room, Old Norfolk Street Chapel - 23 Rev. Wm. Bramwell - 63 Rev. S. D. Waddy, D.D. 63 Rev. John Rattenbury 63 Rev. Wm. E. Miller 63 Rev. Wm. Morley Punshon, LL.D. Si Rev. John Burton 81 Rev. Thomas Nightingale 81 Mr. Henry Longden- 81 Mr. John Cole 127 Mr. Thomas Cole i3« Mr. Skelton Cole, J. P. «37 Mr. John Skelton 139 Mr. Joseph Angus - 139 Mr. Joseph Hadfield 139 xiii. J- List of Illustrations FACING PAGE The Upper Schoolroom, Norfolk Street Chapel 215 The Lower Schoolroom, Norfolk Street Chapel 215 Mr. John Hyiles 225 Mr. J. &.. Cooper - 225 Mr. Joseph Meeke - 225 Mr. Richard Wheen 225 The Mission Staff 233 The New Victoria Hall 289 Interior of New Victoria Hall - 29s XIV. PREFACE. In preparing the following history, all the recognised authorities have been consulted and utilised, such as Hunter's " Hallamshire," Mr. R. E. Leader's "Sheffield in the Eighteenth Century," and Everett's unfinished work on " Methodism in Sheffield." Much additional material has been gained from Circuit Records, and from documents preserved in the Norfolk Street and Carver Street safes, particularly from old Society Stewards' Books from 1773 to 1805, and from old Account Books kept by Mr. Thomas Holy from 1780 to 1S25, typical and illuminating extracts from which will be found in the Appendices, along with other matter of a miscellaneous but variously interesting kind. The writer's acknowledgments are also due to Mr. Thomas Skelton Cole for the loan of material gathered by the Rev. Samuel Lees for his Centenary Lecture, delivered in Norfolk Street Chapel in June, 1880, and of the manuscript of the Lecture itself, as well as for many of the photographic illustrations. Without his aid, and that of the Rev. G. H. McNeal, who first suggested the volume, and of others who have xv. .** Preface helped with information and advice, the present work, imperfect as it is, would scarcely have been possible at all. The preparation of it has been a means of grace to the author, and it is now sent forth in the hope that the coining generations of Sheffield Methodists may catch the spirit and perpetuate the zeal, devotion, and self-sacrifice of those to whom they are indebted for the heritage of a high ideal and a noble example. T. A. SEED. Totley Rise, October 16/A, 1907. Norfolk Street Wesleyan Chapel, Sheffield. CHAPTER I. Introductory : Sheffield in the Eighteenth Century. " How changed is here each spot man makes or fills." Matthew Arnold. The Sheffield of the eighteenth was widely different from the Sheffield of the twentieth century. In area it was exceedingly limited. Ten minutes' walk in any direction from the centre of the town would have brought you into green fields or to moor and arable lands. When John Wesley first visited it in 1742, after preaching on his father's tombstone in Epworth churchyard, he would probably come by the old road over the Park. That ancient way passed close to the Manor, the towers of which were still standing, and still speaking, with the ruins round them, of the instability of human glory, as they told of Wolsey's fall and of the imprisonment within their precincts of Mary, Queen of Scots. Men could still remember all the ancient glories of the Park, with its stately avenues of oak and walnut, and its herds of antler and of fallow deer. 1 B & History or Norfolk Street As Wesley rode down the hill he would get glimpses of the little triangular town in the valley of which he had so often heard and read. He would see no tall chimneys and little smoke, the most conspicuous build- ings being the parish church and the recently constructed walls and tower of St. Paul's. Outside the town he would see nothing but picturesque country, save Broom Hall standing in the solitary distance to the west, and the road to Manchester winding like a moorland track beyond. There were, of course, no steam-engines, no blast-furnaces, no railways, no coaches, no canals ; the roads were full of holes, and stony, and travelling was full of peril and uncertainty. Its twenty thousand odd inhabitants were almost cut off from the outer world. As the good man descended the Park Hill he would probably meet some of the pack-horses climbing it with the produce of the little workshops on their way to distant marts. The suburbs of the town, with their crofts and gardens, he would find to be both picturesque and answer Walpole's clean ; but the town itself would Horace in summary description : " One of the foulest towns England in the most charming situation." The streets were unpaved, and, in wet weather, projecting spouts poured streams of water on the passers-by, and open gutters in the middle of the streets carried away both rain and sewage. But Wesley was on serious business, and has left us no description of the material aspects of the town. For this we are obliged to turn to other sources, one of the most interesting of which is a sketch by a contemporary artist which, unhappily, we have no means to reproduce. 2 : Wesleyan Chapel, Sheffield J In a verbal description accompanying the sketch, he says : " Sheffield, or Sheafield, stands in the southern part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, where the two rivers, Don and Sheaf, meet, to which last it owes its name. This town was anciently famous for making the iron heads of arrows, and is celebrated by Chaucer three hundred years ago, for the blades of knives worked there ; by degrees it hath im- proved in all manner of cutler's ware. Its situation is delightful and somewhat uncommon, it being seated on a round hill in the midst of a valley which is surrounded by many higher hills. This supplies it with many valuable falls of water, necessary for carrying on the manufacture of the place. This advantage of streams to turn their mills, together with great plenty of coal in the neighbour- hood, render it perhaps the fittest place in the kingdom for the business here carried on." For purposes of comparison it may be of interest to quote the graphic words of "John o' London," written in 1904 : " All that is best in Sheffield is comprised in three streets, forming a Y, of which the stem is High Street and the arms Church Street and Fargate. At their junction is the big black parish church of St. Peter's. On a beautiful spring morning I walked over its immense churchyard, paved with flat tombstones. Nearly two centuries of unstoried lives are under your feet—unstoried, but worthy. Well might James Montgomery, the poet of 'The Common Lot,' have lived and rhymed in Sheffield " 'Once in the flight of ages past There lived a man : and who was he ? Mortal ' howe'er thy lot be cast, That man resembled thee. ' ; Jt History of Norfolk Street " ' He saw whatever thou hast seen Encountered all that troubles thee ; He was—whatever thou hast been ; He is—what thou shalt be. "'The annals of the human race, Their ruins since the world began, Of him afford no other trace Than this —there lived a man ! " After wandering through the church, and looking at the fine tombs of the Talbots, in the Shrewsbury Chapel, I stood at the churchyard gates and looked out on the most typical spot in the modern city.
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