North Street Primitive Methodist Church

North Street showing the Methodist Church about 1900 [Z1306/72]

The Primitive Methodist| chapel in North Street was built in 1889, at a cost of £2,340, to replace the previous chapel in Mill Road|, which had been destroyed by fire in 1888. The North Street chapel was registered on 20th May 1890 by George Mitchell of Leighton Buzzard, minister and registered for marriages on 5th July that year. Registration bought the benefit of exemption from parish poor rates, exemption from control by the Charity Commission and the right to be licensed to carry out marriages. The Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists| united in 1932 to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain|.

Sources

• MB250: Sunday School minute book: 1866-1898;
• MB242: Primitive Trustees minute book: 1869-1896;
• MB244: Old leaders meeting minute book: 1875-1902;
• MB1537: Circuit property register, including North Street: 1889-1972;
• MB223: Subscriptions for American organ from Stanbridge: 1913;
• MB251: Sunday School account book: 1914-1922;
• MB261: Collection Journal: 1931-1939.