Mount Zion Chapel
Welcome to the
website of Hawes Junction (Mount Zion) Chapel. Regular
services are no longer held, but the "Friends of Hawes
Junction Chapel" are committed to keeping the
building open for special events and for community use The chapel features in a new "Faiths Trail" published by
the Churches Trust for Cumbria, and is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day.
We are
delighted that our new extension is now completed and
paid for, and we thank all who have contributed to
the work. The extension has won an award from the Yorkshire Dales
National Park (details to follow). We still need funds to
maintain the building in
good
condition, and we will arrange a programme of events for 2012. Details of the last 2011 event is >> here >>.
The 2011 walks were a bit damp, so there were not many pictures!
Pictures of the walk at Kilnmire, Ravenstonedale in 2010 >>>>>>>
Here are some pictures of the railway service:
Please click here for other
events: >>>>>>
The events for 2012 will be published here in March.
Pictures of the work on the extension are on the following page:
>>>>>>
Click here>>>>
for a brief history of the chapel.
Pictures
of the opening are here
>>>>>
Mount
Zion Chapel was built in 1876, the same
year in which the Midland Railway Company opened the famous Settle to
Carlisle
railway, in fact Reuben Alton laid the foundation stone on the very
day of the first passenger train on the new line.
From the
chapel windows can be seen Garsdale
(formerly Hawes Junction)
station, and the "Dandrymire" viaduct. For more than a
hundred
years, a regular congregation met weekly in the chapel, and there was a
thriving "Sunday-School".
There
is no longer a Methodist Society here, and the
chapel would have closed, but a group of friends who are interested in
the
history of the chapel decided to keep it open for occasional special
events. We are delighted at the support which we have
received from so
many people, including many who have had links with the chapel in the
past. Their generosity has paid for this extension.
