Barrow-in-Furness Bethel Primitive Methodist chapel
Hartington St, Barrow in Furness Lancashire
Keith Guyler 1995
Bethel was opened in 1874. It is now known as Hartington Street Methodist Church.
To the left of the Bethel chapel is another chapel. This was the original Wesleyan Chapel also built in 1874, the same time as the Primitive chapel. When the Wesleyans opened the Kings Hall in 1907 their former chapel was converted into ancillary accommodation and became known as the King’s Hall Lesser Hall. The cycle was completed when the former Primitive and Wesleyan congregations merged around 1951 in the ex-Primitive building.
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Hartington Street Chapel began as an iron building at the end of Clive Street. The chapel was erected in 1874 In 1940 the chapel had 300 sittings on pewsand there was a schoolroom and eight other rooms.
Sources
Carlisle Library, 1A287, Methodist Property Statistics 1940, 1980, 1991
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