Bluepits [Methodist?] Chapel, Castleton, Rochdale?

[JennyMarieGradwell]

Hi all,

I'm searching for a baptism record; I've found it via FamilySearch, but not via Ancestry or LOPC (presumably as it's a Methodist chapel).

Name:   Walter Clegg
Residence Place:   Lancashire, England
Gender:   Male
Christening Date:   17 Jul 1877
Christening Date (Original):   17 Jul 1877
Christening Place:   Bluepits Chapel, Rochdale, Lancaster, England
Father's Name:   Samuel Clegg
Mother's Name:   Elizabeth Clegg

I can't seem to find any info about the chapel itself though; where it was, whether it still exists, where the baptism records actually are.... I think I found something here that might mean the records are found in 'Touchstones Rochdale'? [https://link4life.org/images/pdfs/local-history-books/parish-register-9th-ed.pdf]

I searched the forums here and can only find reference to Bluepits as a place, rather than as a chapel. Has anyone ever come across it before?

Might it be this? http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Rochdale/Rochdale/unionst/index.html

Thanks

Jenny.

[Kay99]

Bury Times May 22, 1869

Bluepits

New Congregational Chapel and School at Bluepits corner stone laid on last Sat  Ground floor with two classrooms, upper floor will be used as a church

[Gibel]

On www.british-history.ac.uk

45. The Congregational Church at Castleton, formerly Blue Pits, originated in 1866; a school chapel was built in 1870; Nightingale, Lancs. Nonconf. iii, 253.

The reference is to book by Nightingale called Lancashire Nonconformity volume 3 page 253

It would seem it possibly became the Castleton Congregational Church

[Kay99]

1894 Map hopefully  http://maps.nls.uk/view/101102963#zoom=4&lat=5161&lon=6267&layers=BT

[stanmapstone]

There was a United Methodist Free Church in Bluepits
Rochdale Observer - Saturday 31 December 1870

Stan

[Gibel]

Rochdale Local Studies have listings of baptism registers they hold for Bluepits United Methodist Free Chapel and records for Castleton Congregational Chapel they hold do possible your record is from Bluepits United Methodist chapel.

How about contacting Rochdale Local Studies with then formation you have and asking which chapel it's from?

[JennyMarieGradwell]

Thank you to all for your look-ups and advice, I really appreciate it! I contacted Touchstones Rochdale with all the info gathered and I hope they'll be able to help me.

All the best,

Jenny.

[JennyMarieGradwell]

For anyone else who might be looking for the same thing: they hold the baptism records for Bluepits Chapel, Castleton U.M. Free Church at Local Studies

The fee was £2.00 to have a copy sent to me by post.

Local Studies Centre
Arts & Heritage Service
Touchstones Rochdale,
The Esplanade, Rochdale, OL16 1AQ
T:  01706 -924915
F:  01706 -924944
E:  localstudies@link4life.org
W: www.link4life.org

Thanks again everyone!