Bigrigg Chapel Street United Methodist Free Church, Cumberland

Bigrigg, Chapel Street United Methodist Free Church Chapel was opened on 28 October 1862. The original building and improvements up to 1923, when it had 120 sittings, had cost £200 for the chapel and £150 for the school. In 1940 it had 150 sittings on pews. The building has since been demolished and the site is occupied by a residential development.

Sources

Cumbria Archive Service, Whitehaven YDFCM2/40

Carlisle Library, 1A287, Methodist Property Statistics 1940

Cumbria Archive Service, Whitehaven YDFCM2/431)

Bulmer’s Directory of Cumberland, 1901, p. 554

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