GG Head built Caldbeck Chapel for the use of Methodists 1863, The chapel was 54 feet by 24 feet and the materials were brick and stone. It was enlarged in 1875. It had 166 sittings in 1873 By 1911 there were 131 in 1911, said in 1940 to be in pews. A schoolroom was added in1958-63. The cost was £1223.10.0d. By 1980 there were 150 and there was one other room. It was in use as a Methodist place of worship in 2014.
Sources
Cumbria Archives Service Carlisle DFCM1/2/82-97, Carlisle WM District property schedules, 1862-1877
Cumbria Archives Service Carlisle DFCM3/1/43-62 Carlisle WM District property schedules, 1898-1917
Cumbria Archive Service, Carlisle, Cumbria Archive Service, Carlisle DFCM2/20 circuit amalgamation papers, 1940
Cumbria Archive Service, Carlisle, Cumbria Archive Service, Carlisle DFCM9/9 Seating returns for 1911
Wesleyan seating returns, 1873
Cumbria Archives Service, Kendal WDFCM7 Synod Minutes 1937-1974
Carlisle Library, 1A287, Methodist Property Statistics 1940, 1980, 1991;
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