MEM23809 - The Old Chapel, Brendon (Building)

The old stone chapel, built into the hillside halfway between the village and the church, is now in private use. The meeting room was reached by a flight of steps at the side, and underneath was a small boiler room. Methodist work began in the district aroun 1838 in the farmhouse of a Mr Chamberlain. Shortly afterwards an undenominational chapel was opened, but eventutally handed over to the Methodists, and added to the Lynton circuit. [1] The building is shown on the Ordnance Survey 1st and 2nd Edition 25 inch maps where it is labelled "Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan)". [2,3] The site is shown empty on the Brendon Tithe Map of 1841. [4] The building is depicted and labelled "The Old Chapel" on 2020 MasterMap data. [5]