Weardale Methodist Circuit
Reference: M/We Catalogue Title: Weardale Methodist Circuit Area: Catalogue Category: Non-Conformist Church Records Description:
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WEARDALE METHODIST CIRCUITCatalogue Contents
Individual Churches
Frosterley Methodist Church (formerly Primitive Methodist)
Second Deposit(Acc: 665(D))
Weardale Methodist Circuit
Weardale Wesleyan Methodist Circuit
Formed 1876; amalgamated with Wolsingham and Frosterley to form new Wolsingham and Weardale circuit in 1906
Westgate Primitive Methodist Circuit
Amalgamated with ex-Wesleyan Wolsingham and Weardale circuit to form Weardale circuit in 1934
Individual Churches
Brotherlee Methodist Church (formerly Primitive Methodist)
Chapel closed and amalgamated with Westgate in 1963
Burnhope Methodist Church (formerly Wesleyan Methodist)
Chapel closed in 1952
High House Methodist Church, Ireshopeburn (formerly Wesleyan Methodist)
Built at Ireshopeburn in 1781 and called 'High House'
Lanehead Methodist Church (formerly Lanehead Zion and Lanehead East, amalgamated in 1948)
Church closed and the Society transferred to Wearhead in 1962
St. John's Chapel Methodist Church (formerly Ebenezer, Primitive Methodist)
Amalgamated with St. John's Chapel (West) ex-Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1936 - 1937
See also M/We 180
St. John's Chapel, West, Wesleyan Methodist Church
Amalgamated with Ebenezer ex-Primitive Methodist Church in 1936 - 1937
Stanhope, Gilmore, Primitive Methodist Church
(New chapel built in 1876)
Amalgamated with High Street ex-Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1966
Stanhope, High Street, Methodist Church (formerly Wesleyan Methodist)
Amalgamated with Gilmore ex-Primitive Methodist Church in 1966
Westgate, West End Primitive Methodist Church
Amalgamated with Westgate North Road ex-Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1937
Westgate Methodist Church (formerly Wesleyan Methodist)
Renamed in view of Methodist Union as Westgate (North Road) Methodist Church in 1932; church closed and Society amalgamated with West End ex-Primitive Methodist Church in 1937
Third Deposit(Acc: 669(D))
Rookhope Methodist Church (formerly Primitive Methodist)
Fifth Deposit(Acc: 1217(D))
Unspecified Primitive Methodist Church, Stanhope
Sixth Deposit(Acc: 1313(D))
Westgate Wesleyan Methodist Circuit
Amalgamated with Weardale Methodist Circuit, c.1934
Boltsburn Wesleyan Methodist Church (See Rookhope)
Burnhope Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Eighth Deposit(Acc: 1508(D))
Circulars questions and answers relating to Wolsingham Wesleyan circuit Trust property and deeds, 1861
Ninth Deposit
(Acc: 1831(D))
Weardale Methodist Circuit
Wolsingham and Weardale Wesleyan Methodist Circuit
Formed 1906; amalgamated with other circuits to form Weardale Circuit, 1934