Districts and Places
Moorgate
Talbot Lane Chapel, built in 1805 and enlarged in 1832, was destroyed by fire in 1901, it was rebuilt at a cost of £10,000 and reopened in November, 1903. A new organ was provided in 1904 costing £1000. NB Not strictly Moorgate.
The Plymouth Brethren had a meeting room in Moorgate Road built in 1875 and another in Wellgate, erected in 1886.
The Unitarian Chapel - Church of Our Father was erected in 1879/1880 at a cost of about £3600 - a building in the Early English Style, from designs by Mr. E. M. Gibbs. The Rev William Stephens was minister. The old chapel, in Oil Mill Fold, was used as a Sunday School.
Excavations in 1947 uncovered the site of a possible Romano-British enclosed settlement containing Hut circles, possible clearance cairns or cemetery. Fragments of C1st to C2nd pottery found.
I understand that some of the archive is held privately. Details held at Rotherham Museum includes a survey notebook in D Greene's Archive Box `DG Arch/LH', plus surveys of the area and a general plan showing the location of the excavations. Two small excavations within the 'fort' and a section cut across the South side in either 1947 or 1948. Director of fieldwork H A Copley.
Full report: Hunter Archaeological Society transactions. Reference: 6/1950/190-1,255-270
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