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(Methodist District 6 Bolton & Rochdale, Circuit 6/7 Leigh & Hindley)
National Grid 365610,400010 (SD 656000) (click for modern map)
Minister: Revd J Richard Jackson, PhD, BSc, MA
Address: Kingsleigh Methodist Church, King Street, Leigh, Lancs, WN7 4LR
Tel: +44 (0)1942 678694
No email or website
Please advise me if you find any of the above details have changed
Click here if you want to jump straight to the register detailsLeigh Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was opened in King Street in 1816.
The 1844 OS map shows a chapel in King Street adjacent to the north east corner of Leigh Bridge (on the site occupied by a school in later years), denomination not stated, which is possibly this one. The 1893 map shows it on its present site on the west side of King Street between the Twist Lane and Railway Road junctions but again does not give the denomination. The 1905 map identifies it specifically as "Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan)".The Wesleyan Methodists, United Methodists and Primitive Methodists merged in 1932 as the Methodist Church.
I have little more information on the chapel's history at the moment.
Back to topAbbreviations: Bp - baptism (christening), M - marriage, Bu - burial. Others are defined where they first occur.
The original records prior to 1837 were surrendered to the Registrar General under the Non-Parochial Registers Act of 1840. They are at the National Archives (NA - formerly Public Record Office) at Kew under the following references:
Births and Bp 1804, 1816-1837 [RG4 830]
Bu 1817-1836 [RG4 1041]
(I'm not sure what the 1804 record is as it was before the church apparently opened)
The surrendered registers have been filmed. The films are available at the NA of course, but also at Lancashire Record Office [MF 1/73], at Manchester Archives and Local Studies (at Manchester Central Library) [MFPR 298] and the film may be hired from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) Family History Library for consultation at any of their Family History Centres [British film no 0560884]. The above film references also include Bedford Wesleyan and Bethesda Independent.
Some later original registers are at Wigan Archives (at Leigh Town Hall) as follows:
Bu 1817-1856
There is an overlap between these and the surrendered ones, but Wigan's run 20 years later than the NA's. It may be that there was a duplicate register.
These have also been filmed and can be consulted on film at Wigan History Shop and Leigh Public Library.
The LDS have extracted the baptism records onto the IGI. The dates covered and batch numbers are as follows:
Bp 1818-1837 [C078951]
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