Yates Chapel, Darwen in the County of -- Lancashire --

Yates Chapel (the building in the top left of the picture)

Yates Chapel was built on an adjacent plot of land to Lower Chapel in 1723 after an influential party seceded from Lower Chapel having been unsuccessful in their attempt to appoint their preferred candidate, Mr. Robert Yates, to the vacant post of Minister. Mr. Yates, of Pickup Bank, Darwen, had been educated for the ministry at Glasgow. Apparently the new Chapel resembled Lower Chapel in external appearance and Mr. Yates laboured there until his death. The two chapels continued alongside each other until about 1748 when the two congregations were re-united on the marriage of the Rev. Robert Smalley of Lower Chapel to Miss Ann Yates, a relative of the Rev. Robert Yates. Yates Chapel was then converted into four cottages and the buildings survived until the about the 1970s when they were demolished.

Yates Chapel during demolition