Ashton Street Wesleyan Methodist Mission Luton

Ashton Street Wesleyan Methodist mission on a map of 1901

Edwin Welch researched the history of registrations in Bedfordshire for Bedfordshire Historical Records Society Volume 75 Bedfordshire Chapels and Meeting Houses [published in 1996] and found that Ashton Street Wesleyan Methodist Mission Chapel was registered on 20th September 1883 by William Kimber Harvey of Napier Road, Luton, minister. The registration was cancelled on 12th March 1913.

The Ashton Street chapel was only a temporary buiding and was referred to as “The Old Tin Cathedral”. It was replaced by the new Luton Central Mission in Midland Road in 1903 and demolished. Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service has no records from the chapel itself. Ashton Street has since been renamed Gillam Street and the site of the chapel lies under industrial units.