Abbeytown WM Chapel, Cumberland
Grid Ref NY174508
The chapel was built of stone in 1858 at a cost of 226.10.2½ plus £30 for the land and conveyancing. Wall ties by TR were added in 1869. The chapel measured 44 feet by 26 feet and there were no other rooms. The building was “beautified in 1902”. Proposals to alter the chapel at a cost of £50 were approved in 1926-7. It had 140 sittings in 1873, reduced to 132 in pews in 1911 and to 100 by 1980. Wall ties by TR were added in 1869. In 1948 heatinf was installed in the schoolroom (£25). It remains in use as a place of worship.
Sources
Wesleyan seating returns, 1873
Cumbria Archives Service Carlisle DFCM1/2/82-97, Carlisle WM District property schedules, 1862-1877, Carlisle WM District property schedules, 1862-1877
Cumbria Archives Service Carlisle Cumbria Archives Service Carlisle DFCM3/1/43-62 Carlisle WM District property schedules, 1898-1917 Carlisle WM District property schedules, 1898-1917
Cumbria Archive Service, Carlisle Cumbria Archive Service, Carlisle DFCM9/9 Seating returns for 1911
Cumbria Archive Service, CarlisleCumbria Archive Service, Carlisle DFCM2/20 circuit amalgamation papers, 1940;
Cumbria Archive Service, Carlisle DFCM9/32
Cumbria Archives Service, Kendal WDFCM7 Synod Minutes 1937-1974 [NB inconsistencies in the description and reporting of works may mean that some projects are entered twice]
Carlisle Library, 1A287, Methodist Property Statistics 1940, 1980, 1991
Site visit, summer 2014
No Comments
Add a comment about this page