Mawbray Chapel was built of stone in 1843 at a cost of £150. It measured 32 feet by 21 feet In 1851 it provided 180 free and 16 other sittings and was also used as a Sunday school. There were 140 sittings in 1873. In 1940 the chapel had 130 sittings in pews and there were no other rooms. There were 100 sittings in 1980 and 1991. It has now been closed and is in residential use.
Sources
Wesleyan seating returns, 1873
The National Archives HO129/569/2/3 1851 census of religious worship
Cumbria Archives Service Carlisle DFCM1/2/82-97, 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, DFCM9/86/2
Carlisle Library, 1A287, Methodist Property Statistics 1940, 1980, 1991
Cumbria Archive Service, Carlisle, Cumbria Archive Service, Carlisle DFCM2/20 circuit amalgamation papers, 1940
Site visit 8th May 2016
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