Grindleton, Redhill Wesleyan Methodist Association chapel was built in 1754. In 1851 it provided 200 free and no other sittings.
J Woolfe, Yorkshire returns of the 1851 census of religious worship, Vol 2 West Riding, North No. 727
Grindleton, Redhill Wesleyan Methodist Association chapel, Yorkshire
Roddel Chapel
Roddel (or Rod Hill) chapel as shown on Ordnance Survey six inch Yorkshire Sheet 165 Surveyed: 1847, Published: 1850
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This building has a complex history. It was built in 1754 for the Inghamites, another branch of the eighteenth century Evangelical revival. Benjamin Ingham (1712 – 1772) was a fellow member of the Holy Club at Oxford with the Wesley brothers and George Whitfield. He accompanied John Wesley to Georgia in 1735 and, like Wesley, was influenced by the Moravians. Like the Wesleys and Whitfield he broke with the Church of England and set up his own denomination, who were mainly based in the Pennines.
Roddel (more recently known as Rod Hill) was an Inghamite chapel from 1754 to 1837, and was taken over by the Wesleyan Methodist Association in 1844. The Ordnance Survey were clearly not informed.
As can be seen, the chapel was rather remote, and it was replaced in 1862 by the Free Methodist chapel at Grindleton.
Grid reference SD761479
Reference
Thomson, Robert Walker Benjamin Ingham (The Yorkshire Evangelist) and The Inghamites. Kendal (1958). p. 94
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