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Salvation Army Citadel, Queen Street

The former Queen Street Primitive Methodist chapel was started in April 1867 and the chapel was opened later the same year to replace an earlier chapel of 1838 in Newport. This in turn had been a replacement for a chapel in King Street. Non-conformism was strong in Barton with four times the number attending the two non-conformist chapels in 1851 than the number attending the Anglican church. It was capable of holding 600 worshippers and cost of £1500 to build. It was built in a 'Romanesque-style' to a design by the architect Joseph Wright of Hull who designed over 20 chapels in the region and who had been a pupil of Cuthbert Brodrick. It ceased to be a Primitive Methodist Chapel in 1961 and was reopened after much internal alteration as a Salvation Army Citadel in 1965.