Catalogue description Devon Record Office: CHAGFORD METHODIST CIRCUIT

Records of the Chagford (originally Bible Christian) Methodist Circuit

Also of the Buckfastleigh Bible Christian Circuit, 1827-31 only

Including minutes, accounts, schedules, certificates, register of members, leaflets, cuttings and photos.

Chagford Methodist Circuit, Devon

60 year bar on reproduction

Records relating to events less than 60 years old (except pulpit notices, handbills, brochures and other items which have already been made public) may not be reproduced without the permission of the Superintendent Minister of the Circuit.

The Bible Christians joined with the Methodist New Connection and United Methodist Free Churches to form the United Methodist Church in 1907, and by the Methodist Union Act (not implemented in this Circuit till 1934), the United, the Wesleyan, and the Primitive Methodist Churches united to form the present Methodist Church.

The majority of Chapels in the Chagford Circuit were originally Bible Christian, there being no chapels of the other extinct Methodist denominations apart from the Wesleyans. The only Wesleyan chapel of which records survive in this deposit is Chagford Mill Street Chapel (see 2200D-0/24) which prior to Union in 1934 was in the Newton Abbot Wesleyan Methodist Circuit and which then replaced the older Southcombe Street Bible Christian Chapel when Union rendered the latter superfluous.

The Winkleigh Mission (later renamed the Hatherleigh Circuit) was linked to the Chagford Circuit until 1841 - see collection 2095D-0.

The Buckfastleigh Bible Christian Circuit covered the area to the south of the Chagford Circuit.

CHAGFORD CIRCUIT (Chapel or Cottage Meetings) (all originally Bible Christian except Chagford Mill Street)

Were at:

Chagford (Zion) Chapel, in Southcombe Street, Date Built 1828, 1844 Date in the Records 1836 - 1934;

Chagford Chapel in Mill Street (Wesleyan), Date Built 1867 Date in the Records 1867 - ? See also 1517D-0 and 1812D-0;

Challacombe, in Manaton, Date in the Records 1860 - 1817;

Coombe, in ?, Date in the Records 1838 - 1841;

Crockernwell, in Cheriton Bishop and Drewsteignton, Date in the Records 1861, 1945-55;

Culliford, in South Tawton, Date in the Records 1867 - 1870;

Drewsteignton - see also Flood and Crockernwell, Date in the Records 1852 - 1855;

1874 - 1881;

Flood, in Drewsteignton, Date in the Records 1841 - 1848;

Gooseford, in South Tawton, Date in the Records 1838 - 1866, Cottage meeting replaced by Whiddon Down Chapel;

Hittisleigh Mill Chapel, Date Built 1903 Date in the Records 1840;

Itton, in South Tawton, Date in the Records 1845; See also 2095D-0;

Jourstone, Jurston in Chagford, Date in the Records 1858 - 1859;

Langdown, in South Tawton, Date in the Records 1838 - 1880, See also 2095D-0;

Lettaford Chapel, in North Bovey, Date Built ? 1870's, Date in the Records 1860 - ?, Meetings in a school prior to building of chapel;

Middlecott, in Chagford, Date in the Records 1846;

Murchington, in Throwleigh, Date in the Records 1838 - 1839;

Nymph Wood, in S. Tawton, Date in the Records 1846 - 1847;

Okehampton Chapel, in East Street, Date Built 1869, Date in the Records 1866 - 1879; In 1879 transferred to N. Lew Circuit, see 1813D-0;

St. Cherris/St. Cherries in Spreyton, Date in the Records 1864 - 1868, Linked with Spreyton 1865-8;

Spreyton Chapel Date Built 1880, restored 1892 after fire, Date in the Records 1863 - ?;

Taw Green, South Tawton, Date in the Records 1843 - 1846;

Throwleigh Chapel, Providence Place, Date Built 1838, Date in the Records 1841 - ?;

Vitafer Vitifer, in North Bovey, Date in the Records 1869 - 1870;

Whiddon Down (Bethal) Chapel, in South Tawton, Date Built 1866 - 1906, Date in the Records 1866 - ?, Replaced Gooseford;

Yeo Cottage, in ? Chagford, Date in the Records 1868 - 1888;

South Zeal Chapel, in South Tawton, Date Built 1865, Date in the Records 1839-44, 1861-?, See also 1812D-0;

Allery, in ?, Date in the Records 1828;

Ashprington, Date in the Records 1827-29;

Aveton Giffard, Date in the Records 1827-29;

Black Otton, in ?, Date in the Records 1829;

Bigbury, Date in the Records 1827-29;

Broadhempstone, Date in the Records 1829;

Buckfastleigh, Date in the Records 1827-31;

Buckland-in-the-Moor or Buckland Tout Saints, Date in the Records 1829;

Coombe or Reneford Coombe, in ?, Date in the Records 1827-28;

Courtisknowle, in ?, Date in the Records 1827-28;

Dean Coombe, in Dean Prior, Date in the Records 1827-31;

Diptford, Date in the Records 1827-28;

Dittisham, Date in the Records 1828;

Huccaby or Hucabine, Date in the Records 1829-30;

Halwell, Date in the Records 1828-29;

Harberton, Date in the Records 1828;

Harbertonford, Date in the Records 1827-29;

Hatherleigh, in ? Bovey Tracey, Date in the Records 1828-29;

Lidstone, in Buckland Tout Saints, Date in the Records 1827-29;

Lixon/? Lixton in Aveton Giffard, Date in the Records 1827;

Loddiswell, Date in the Records 1827-28;

Lopridge/?Lupridge in N. Huish, Date in the Records 1827-28;

Moreleigh, Date in the Records 1827-29;

Postbridge, in Lydford, Date in the Records 1827-30;

Princetown, in Lydford, Date in the Records 1827-29;

Little Sherberton, in Lydford, and Woodford, in ?, Date in the Records 1827-30, 1827-28.