Wade House Primitive Methodist Church, Shelf

 

Primitive Methodist missionaries came to Shelf in 1821 and we are told that they walked around the village singing hymns. The Chapel was built between 1822 and 1823 although the building “was blown down once or twice during the course of its erection.” The building was extended at one end in 1854 and 1866 to form a Sunday school which was rebuilt in 1901. The Chapel closed in October 1973 shortly after celebrating their 151st Anniversary, having “lost heavily by removal, by deaths and were left with a few aged people, half of whom were sick members unable to attend.” The building is now the Wade House Community Centre.

The Baptism register starts in 1824. The Church never seems to have had a marriage license. The Burial Registers, Grave books and Memorial Inscriptions have been transcribed and published by the Bradford Family History Society and are available on their CD ‘Great Horton Methodist Circuit.’

 

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