IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Fernlea Grove, HUDDERSFIELD, HD7 4HF

This view is of the road below the Station Lane junction.

A steep short cut to the former station. Station Road gets there via a zigzag.

A large house, Victorian or Edwardian.

The building straight ahead was built as a Sunday school in 1896 and adapted for use as a chapel in the late 1960s. Set into the wall is the datestone for a chapel of 1834, the first one. The photograph is taken from what would have been the interior of another chapel, built 1867 when the church outgrew the 1834 building and demolished in the early 1970s. It is now a car park. The small wall in the foreground was part of the exterior wall of the 1867 chapel. The building on the right is dated 1929 over the door. It is referred to as 'the covered way' and was built to provide a corridor between the 1867 chapel and the 1896 Sunday school, as well as to provide on-site indoor toilets.

This is one of several similar stones along the front wall of the building, dated August 1896. This was after most of the various different groups of Baptists joined to form the Baptist Union in 1891. Crowther is a well-known name in this area; some of them were mill-owners.

Work on clearing away invading shrubs is in progress.

These were built in 1896. On the left, the old Sunday School building which is now used as a chapel. On the right, the minister's house or 'manse'. There was one earlier pair of buildings on this site; a chapel and manse built 1834. A new chapel was built next door in 1867 and then the old chapel replaced with this large, 3 storey Sunday School. In the 1960s the Sunday School was adapted for use as a chapel and the 1867 chapel demolished in the early 1970s. The gate at the far end leads into the graveyard.

This is a continuation of Chapel Lane, which was probably only as wide as this originally.

The first datestone is from 1834. This one of 1867 has the words 'Particular Baptist'. This were a strict type of Baptist, and were originally Calvinistic, believing in predestination. This stone stands facing Chapel Lane with a car park behind it, where the 1867 chapel once stood. As such, its position is similar to its original position in the building, but for its being at ground level.

The present chapel is dated 1896 and was built as a Sunday School. This datestone was transferred from the first chapel on the site. The 1834 chapel was replaced when the church outgrew it. A new chapel was built on the land that is now a car park, which this datestone faces, in 1867, and the Sunday School followed within 30 years.