Description:
At the date this photograph was taken this former chapel was used as the Meadows Community Centre. Located on the corner of Kirke White Street East and Stanley Terrace, this view is looking south-west.
The building started life as a Congregational Chapel in 1872, but towards the end of the nineteenth century a larger replacement building was constructed to its rear, fronting onto Queen's Drive (now Queen's Walk). The roof of this new church can be seen rising above the older building here. This rendered the latter redundant as a place of worship and it was thereafter used as a Sunday School. By 1954 its use had changed again to a community centre, while in 1963 the later building became the Pilgrim Holiness Church. While the latter remained in occupation in 2015, the earlier chapel had been demolished by 1981, presumably supplanted by the Queen's Walk Community Centre nearby. The latter was converted from the former Great Central Railway Queen's Drive goods depot offices.
As part of the wholesale redevelopment of The Meadows area in the 1970s, both Kirke White Street East and Stanley Terrace disappeared from the map (although there is still a 'Kirkewhite Walk') and to repeat this view today (2015), a photographer would be standing in Houseman Gardens.