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St Ives Teetotal Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
This chapel was in use at the time of the 1851 Religious Census, recording congregations of 81 in the morning, 33 in the afternoon and 19 in the evening
By Philip Thornborow (06/04/2026)United Methodist Free Churches registers
Indeed it should. Text altered.
By Philip Thornborow (06/04/2026)United Methodist Free Churches registers
Re “If a chapel has a register it will most likely be for baptisms. It was not legal to marry anywhere but a parish church until 1857.”
Should be this 1837 when civil registration was introduced – rather than 1857?
By Marcus Bateman (02/04/2026)
Grindleton, Redhill Wesleyan Methodist Association chapel, Yorkshire
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