Market Place Chapel was built in 1841 at a cost of £1800. In 1851 it had 300 free and 500 other sittings. In 1873 it had 600 sittings. It was extended in1893. The chapel was closed when Lorton Street was opened in 1932 and sold for £362.2.0 in 1935. (TNA HO129/570/2/10; Cumbria Archive Service, Carlisle DFCM1/2/92-97, DFCM6/1/40-1, DFCM3/1/43-62; Wesleyan seating returns, 1873; Griffin, EW, Watchers of a Beacon: The Story of the Keswick and Cockermouth Methodist Circuit)
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