[Former] Wesleyan Methodist Church - Market Street - Cockermouth, Cumbria - Methodist Churches on Waymarking.com

Cockermouth, Market Place (Church Went) [Former] Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, now the Town Hall.

"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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"The chapel had been designed in the neoclassical style, built with a stucco finish at a cost of £1,800 and been completed in 1841. It was extended in 1893, but following the Methodist Union of 1932, the congregations of the local Methodist chapels in the town decided to consolidate their places of worship at a new chapel in Lorton Road. The council bought the empty chapel in Market Street from the Methodist Church for £362 in 1934 and subsequently converted it into a municipal facility."

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Active church?: No Year Built: 1841 Service times: Not listed Website: Not listed

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