Building Name
Primitive Methodist Chapel. Dalton-in-Furness
Date
1882 - 1888
District/Town
Dalton-in-Furness
County/Country
Cumbria, England
Architect
Work
New build
Contractor
executors of the late Mr Gradwell
The memorial stones of a new Primitive Methodist Chapel which is being erected at Dalton were laid last week. The chapel will be galleried all round and is intended to seat about 700 people. Mr Morry of Moss Side, Manchester, is the architect; the contractor being the executors of the late Mr Gradwell and the estimated cost is upwards of £2200. [BA 31 Aug 1883]
The Cleator Street chapel was opened by the Primitive Methodists in 1883, replacing their smaller chapel which had opened only fifteen years earlier on Ulverston Road. The diamond Jubilee brochure states: "just over sixty years ago, the foundation stones of the Cleator Street Methodist Church, Dalton, were laid in the Primitive Methodist connection, prior to the Methodist union." As Cleator Street Methodist Church, it closed in September 1959 and has since been converted into flats.
Reference : British Architect 29 December 1882 Page 620
Reference : British Architect 31 August 1883. Page 108