Old Dalby Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built in 1805/6 In 1851 it provided 60 free and 40 other sittings. By 1860 the cost of the original building and subsequent extensions and alterations was unknown. In 1873 the chapel provided seating for 97 persons but this figure had fallen to 72 by 1901. The chapel probably closed in the following year when the new chapel opened.
The chapel stood on a landlocked site between The Green and Debdale Hilland was reached by means of a footpath between the two streets (grid ref SK674238)
Sources
The National Archives,1851 ecclesiastical census HO129/418/2/18
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson Returns of Accommodation provided by Wesleyan Methodist Chapels and other Preaching Places, Melton Circuit 1873/499, 1881/565, 1891/612, 1901/625.
Leicestershire Record Office, N/M/NDD 1-15, Annual trust returns, Nottingham and Derby District 1860-1878
OS 25 inch Leicestershire LI 10 1899-1900
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The chapel was built at the expense of a Mr Orson.
John Gill, The history of Wesleyan Methodism Melton Mowbray and the vicinity, Melton Mowbray, 1909 p. 156
The chapel was built in 1805/6 at the expense of a Mr Orson.
John Gill, The history of Wesleyan Methodism Melton Mowbray and the vicinity, Melton Mowbray, 1909 p. 156
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