In 1851 services were being held in Low Row Schoolroom which had been built in 1850 and provided 80 free sittings. Low Row chapel was built of stone in 1866 at a cost of £234. The chapel was 26 feet by 21 feet and the vestry 7 feet by 6½ feet. The contractors were R Gibson, builder; W Moffatt, joiner; Thompson & Sons, stone & castings; Mr Pears, stove; Messrs Campbell, lamps; Forster & Co, flags; Lees & Graham, castings; Cowan, Sheldon & Co, window bars; T Carrick, lime; J Smith of Beckstonegate Rroad. There were 85 sittings in 1873. In 1884 the existing chapel was converted into a schoolroom and a new chapel, 50 feet by 21 feet with seating for 170 was built. The land cost £37.15.9 and the building £797.8.5. The premises were renovated in 1903. In 1940 the chapel had 183 sittings, all in pews, and there was a schoolroom and one additional room. Conveniences costing £45 were installed in 1953-4. The chapel was closed as a place of worship 16 May 1975.
Sources
The National Archives HO129/566/2/11 1851 census of religious worship
Wesleyan seating returns, 1873
Cumbria Archives Service Carlisle DFCM1/2/82-97, Carlisle WM District property schedules, 1862-1877
Cumbria Archives Service Carlisle DFCM3/1/43-62 Carlisle WM District property schedules, 1898-1917
Cumbria Archives Service Carlisle DFCM11/32- 3 Brampton Wesleyan Circuit trust schedules, 1860 – 78, 1879-98, 1918-37
Cumbria Archives Service, Carlisle DFCM11/94 application to the Chapel Committee
Cumbria Archives Service, Carlisle DFCM11/53
Cumbria Archives Service, Carlisle DFCM14/13 chapel record cards
Cumbria Archives Service, Kendal WDFCM7 Synod Minutes 1937-1974
Carlisle Library, 1A287, Methodist Property Statistics 1940
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