Lancaster Methodist Circuit

1. Lancaster (Sulyard Street) Wesleyan Methodist Circuit

2. Lancaster (Moor Lane) Primitive Methodist Circuit

3. Lancaster (Brock Street) United Methodist Circuit

4. Lancaster Methodist Circuit (post 1958)

5. Lancaster, Sulyard Street (WM) Church

6. Lancaster, Bridge Lane (WM) Mission

7. Lancaster, Greaves (WM) Church

8. Lancaster, Marsh (WM) Church

9. Lancaster, Westham Street (WM) Mission

10. Arkholme (WM) Church

11. Caton (WM) Church

12. Galgate (WM) Church

13. Silverdale (WM) Church

14. Skerton, Owen Road (WM) Church

15. Over Kellet (WM) Church

16. Wray (WM) Church

17. Lancaster, Moor Lane (PM) Church

18. Brookhouse (PM) Church

19. Skerton, Main Street (PM) Church

20. Lancaster, Brock Street (UM) Church

21. Miscellaneous

22. Quernmore (WM) Church

Please note all unpublished Methodist Records, including baptism registers, are closed to public inspection for 30 years. Marriage registers from closed churches are open.

Deposited by the Revd K Brown, Lancaster

Superintendent Minister

1 December 1983 (acc. 5159)

Additional deposit 1 March 1984 (acc 5257) MLA 1/2/1-4; 1/7/3-5; 2/2/1-5; 2/3/2-10, 19-25, 27; 2/5/1-8; 2/7/7-8; 2/8/6-8; 4/2/1-2; 4/5/2-3; 5/2/5-6; 5/3/6-10; 7/2/1; 10/1/1-2; 11/2/1-3; 11/3/3; 13/4/6; 14/2/1-7; 14/5/1; 15/1/1-3; 17/3/1-2; 17/4/1; 19/2/1,2,6; 19/4/4

Additional deposit 24 February 1986 (acc 5777) MLA 1/3/1-8; 1/7/16-17; 4/3/2-5; 4/5/4, 8-12; 5/1/3-8,10; 5/3/11; 5/5/1-22; 5/6/1-5; 5/7/7,12; 11/1/1-4; 11/4/4; 16/1/1-2; 16/2/1; 21/1

Additional deposit 1 August 1986 (acc 5902) MLA 4/1/1-2; 4/5/5-7; 6/1/1; 11/2/4; 11/3/1-2; 11/4/1-3; 11/6/1-2; 12/2/13,15,16; 12/3/2; 12/4/3-13; 12/5/1-2; 12/6/1-5; 14/1/1-4; 14/2/13; 14/3/1-3; 18/1/2; 19/1/1

Additional deposit 4 November 1993 (acc 7532) MLA 1/7/21; 14/2/14-15

Additional deposit 16 November 1999 (acc 8673) MLA 22/1/1-2

Lancaster Methodist Circuit

The Lancaster area was originally part of Haworth Wesleyan Circuit which was later divided into successively smaller circuits so that Lancaster came under Colne and Blackburn Circuits when they were created in 1776 and 1787 respectively. Lancaster Wesleyan Circuit was formally established in 1794. Further circuits were created from parts of Lancaster, including Kendal in 1805 and Morecambe in 1894, while some chapels on the eastern fringe were transferred to Settle c.1830.

There were separate circuits in Lancaster for the Primitive Methodists and the United Methodists (see MLA 2 and 3). The United Methodist Circuit was abolished in the 1930s as described in section 3. The Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist Circuits continued their separate existence after Methodist Union in 1932 (but with different names) and were finally merged in 1958 to form Lancaster Methodist Circuit.

A useful historical outline can be found in MLA 1/7/6.