Kotick Cubs - Hallgate Methodist Church

Then ... and Now

Our church was built in 1878, it replaced a Wesleyan church in Northgate near the Cross Keys Inn and at the rear of the present Cottingham Rifle Club. A friend of John Wesley, the prime founder of the Northgate building was Thomas Thompson, Hull banker, of Cottingham Castle. The Wesleyan building was extended, but was later sold as a steam laundry when the new church was built in Hallgate. The Wesleyans amalgamated with the Primitives in the mid 1930s and the Primitive Methodist church was vacated and sold to the Salvation Army who never used it as it was requisitioned in war years as a warehouse for Jarman and Flints.

In more recent years the Hallgate church, although retaining its exterior intact, has undergone radical alterations intemally to a two floor structure.  In 1997 the church celebrated the opening of a new lift to give access to the church to disabled people.