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I am writing a novel based on some family incidents. My Great grandfather attended a chapel in Yorkshire England. Was that Church of England or...?

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If it was a chapel then it probably was not Church of England. C of E places of worship are most often parish churches dedicated to a particular saint. Chapel sounds to me like one of the non-conformist sects; Methodist possibly or some flavour of Baptist.
Where in Yorkshire and when?
 

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Argh! Problem here!

You are going to have to give us more information before we can help.

And it is very tricky. This is religion and the passions involved can still start a riot!

Your GG was in Yorkshire. Which Riding? Which town, city or village? Dates?

Chapel was not and never was the dreadful popish, papist wickedly idolatrous Church of England (Anglican Church)

Chapel in Yorkshire could have been Methodist, Wesleyan, Congregationalist, Presbyterian (though rare in Yorkshire) Baptist, and any of many smaller sub sects all who believed in the communion service as a memorial service and that having a cross, stained glass, a silver chalice etc were mortal sins!

Chapel was often working class and strong on guilt and remorse and the hell to come.
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This so depends exactly on which chapel and where and when. And who the minister was and where trained.

Methodists, for example, split into the wealthy, the middle classes and the working class, and also how much John Wesley affected the minister and congregation!
 

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Okay, that helps. This is Barnsley Yorkshire circa 1900. My GGgrandfather's father was a Methodist minister but my GGgrandfather was a supporter of the Salvation Army but I couldn't find that any of their churches were called chapels.

Thank you. I guess it's Methodist.

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Salvation Army meeting places are called halls or citadels
 

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If it's Barnsley...

then he's very likely a Primitive Methodist. Strictly no alcohol or tobacco and very Hell Fire!
 

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Great stuff, PDR. Just what I needed for my MC, a Canadian teenager, to encounter. Opens up great plot possibilities.

Thanks so much.

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then he's very likely a Primitive Methodist. Strictly no alcohol or tobacco and very Hell Fire!

And with a Barnsley accent you could slice bread with!
 

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Thanks Sandi. Why didn't I think to look for that on google? Smack upside the head. The map is going to be helpful to add to the ones I already found. Just remembered it was Pitt St. Chapel.

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