Mill Hey Primitive Methodist 
Chapel

Grid Reference: 40364374

The Primitive Methodists, known as 'ranters', began to form their own societies early in the nineteenth century. The first Mill Hey Chapel was opened in 1836 but was replaced by a new building in 1870 (subsequently enlarged).

In April 1884 the Keighley News reported the opening of a bazaar in the Haworth Drill Hall, in aid of a fund for building a new Sunday School at Mill Hey:- "Among those present were Rev. J. Jackson (Keighley), the Rev. J.T. Barkby (Haworth), Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Redman, Mrs. P. Redman, Dr. Arledge, Mr. J. Lee, Mr. W. Greenwood, Mr. and Mrs. H. Bland, Miss Sugden (Dockroyd), Miss Craven and Mrs. George Merrall. After devotional exercises conducted by the Rev. J.T. Barkby and the Rev. J. Jackson, the latter gave an explanatory statement as to the objects of the bazaar. He said it would be known to most of those present that there had been, for a considerable number of years, a flourishing hard-working, and earnest church at Mill Hey. They were without a school-room, and had been obliged to hold their Sunday school in the body of the chapel and in the gallery. There were... 130 church members... They had a Sunday School, with teachers and scholars numbering 400, and they felt very much pressed for room… " The effort must have been a success for a commodious school was built a few years later on land behind the chapel; the school, which still stands, is in a poor state.

The chapel was closed in 1954 and is now put to business use.