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chapel, Nenthead
Nenthead Methodist Chapel
locality:-   Nenthead
civil parish:-   Alston Moor (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   methodist chapel
locality type:-   chapel
coordinates:-   NY78124374
1Km square:-   NY7843
10Km square:-   NY74


photograph
BUJ60.jpg (taken 23.4.2011)  
photograph
BUJ61.jpg  Plaque:-
"WESLEYAN CHURCH / 1873" (taken 23.4.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 42 3) 
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Methodist Chapel (Wes.)"

hearsay:-  
The Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built 1853, during the great revival of Methodism. It was built by the quaker mine company who recognised the strength of the methodist movement. An itinerant preacher Adam Dodds is said to be the A.D. on the plaque!
BUT
This doesn't seem to agree with the plaque found. There was another methodist chapel, primitive methodist, on the road to Whitehall which we haven't seen.

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