Calees Primitive Methodist Chapel

The Banks, Brampton 1874-2004

Calees Primitive Methodist chapel, the Banks
Peter Barber, 2/8/2011
Peter Barber, 2/8/2011
Calees Primitive Methodist chapel, the Banks
Peter Barber, 2/8/2011
Calees Primitive Methodist chapel, the Banks, datestone
Peter Barber, 2/8/2011

Banks was visited by Primitive Methodist missionaries as early as 1824, and again in 1846/7. The converts, however, drifted elsewhere and no society was formed there.

Eventually a society at Calees was formed, which met in the home of John Holmes. Eventually he and his family provided the land for the chapel to be built in 1874, ‘at a cost of £200 and free of debt’. The chapel bears the name of his house.

The chapel celebrated its centenary in 1974, but the final service was conducted by Rev David Emison, the Chair of the Cumbria District, on Sunday 29 August 2004.

GW Oxley gives further information:

“Grid Ref NY566648

Calees Chapel was built in 1875 at a cost of £200.2.7. It had 100 lettable and 60 free seats (CASC DFCM1/1/26)

CASC = Cumbria Archive Service, Carlisle”

 

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