Gamblesby Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Penrith, Cumbria
Bryan Gray
Gamblesby Chapel was opened in 1865 and is still in use. I am researching the history of Methodism in the parish of Addingham, where the chapel is situated and have amassed a lot of information about individuals who lived here 1820-1932. I am keen to contact anybody who had ancestors living here around then, whether Methodist or not. I have self-published a history of the chapel and its relationships with the Congregational chapel and the Anglican church in the same village. Please see also Hunsonby Chapel.
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The original Chapel was pulled down and replaced on the same site by the new one of 1865, which still stands.
The family story is that John Wesley preached from my Great (x3) grandfather Joseph Salkeld’s farm in Gamblesby & that he gave the land on which the chapel was built in 1784 & laid the foundation stone
Joseph became a preacher of the Methodist persuasion & in 1781 Joseph Salkeld of Alston and a fellow preacher Stephen Brunskill obtained permission of the Mayor of Kendal to preach from the old stone stepe on the Market Place. Salkeld at 1 o ‘clock and Brunskill t 4.0 o’clock. – thus began the first established Wesleyan Methodist cause in Kendal
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