Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a nonconformist meeting house; also attrib.

c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Schism Shop a Dissenting Meeting House.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1837		Devizes & Wilts. Gaz. 21 Sept. 3/3: A man can have [...] no decency, who can style a place of worship, a ‘schism-shop’.
1840		T. Haliburton Clockmaker III 48: Stickin’ a subscription paper into a very strait-laced man, even for building a schism-shop for his own folks, is like stickin’ a needle behind an ox’s ear, it kills him dead on the spot.
1852		S. Brooks Miss Violet and her Offers (1875) 268: ‘The tenants-at-will who vote for church candidates —’ ‘By the tenants-at-won’t, who go in for the schism-shop’ – dashed in the smart barrister.
1859		(con. 1823) Chester Chron. 5 Mar. 2/3: To the shame of the King’s Ministers be it said, that many of them have gone to this schism-shop with itching ears.
1862		Eve. Standard (London) 4 Mar. 6/4: I trist [...] Ashton-under-Lyme will provide itself with a member who does not represent the ‘schism-shop’ interest.
1879		Greenock Teleg. 19 June 4/1: If Dr Manning were to throw blame on that ‘schism-shop’ to which he himself formerly belonged [etc].
1884		Sporting Times 2 Feb. 5/3: Speaking at a suburban schism-shop last week, Mr J. Holme [etc].