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Groves Chapel update: notes and queries
![Groves Chapel, 12 June 2017](http://yorkstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/groves-chapel-front-120617-1024-1024x768.jpg)
Photos and notes on the redevelopment work underway at Groves Chapel, and the marketing of its residential accommodation.
More …‘Where you played as a boy': Clarence Street
![Old postcard](http://www.yorkstories.co.uk/blog/fp-content/images/.thumbs/clarence-st-idylwilde-w-hayes-postcard.jpg)
While researching the history of Groves Chapel I found this image, a postcard showing the area in front of the chapel, around 1900. Children pose in the middle of what was a ‘square’ and is now a road junction.
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![19th century chapel](http://www.yorkstories.co.uk/blog/fp-content/images/.thumbs/groves-chapel-081013-600.jpg)
Groves Chapel, a Wesleyan Methodist chapel dating from the early 1880s, is for sale. It’s at the end of Clarence Street, directly opposite the end of Lowther Street, and once served the Groves area of York, with seating for 800 people. It closed in the 1970s and has since been in health authority ownership.
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