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This is how the church looks today.
This Independent Methodist Church is situated on Lyons Lane in Chorley. It started as a temperance society in 1886. In 1888 they moved to a new hall built by them in Hill Street. Their numbers grew, and so it was decided to build a school and chapel in Lyons Lane which opened on 12 November 1898.
Archive Items
Magazine Entries
Member Obituaries
In the archives, we hold the following items from this church:
- Printed History: (Centenary History, 1998, Caroline Sephton)
| Year | Page in Magazine |
| 1876 | 74 (prospect of church starting), 278 |
| 1877 | 76, 264 |
| 1878 | 11, 45, 100, 263 |
| 1879 | 180, 201 |
| 1896 | 11, 46, 198 |
| 1898 | 195 (stonelaying) |
| 1899 | 17 (opening) |
| 1901 | 101, 155, 220, 309 |
| 1902 | 55, 181, 200 |
| 1903 | 43, 138, 209, 228, 247 |
| 1904 | 36, 113, 175, 197, 235 |
| 1905 | 54, 76, 136, 210, 248 |
| 1906 | 16, 57, 116, 191, 231 |
| 1907 | 16, 35, 75, 206, 207 |
| 1908 | 17, 35, 76, 116, 186, 224 |
| 1909 | 17, 34, 56, 75, 76, 115, 223, 245 |
| 1910 | 36, 114, 230, 252 |
| 1911 | 33, 114, 206 |
| 1912 | 36, 147 |
| 1913 | 19, 116, 191 |
| 1914 | 3, 18, 150 |
| 1916 | 18, 39, 58, 73, 201 |
| 1917 | 112, 143, 174, 189 |
| 1918 | 15, 62 |
| 1919 | 99, 147 |
| 1920 | 45, 158 |
| 1923 | 152, 168, 182, 184, 198 |
| 1924 | 73, 75, 94, 176 |
| 1925 | 92, 112, 191 |
| 1926 | 13, 108, 131, 204 |
| 1927 | 13, 70, 84, 101, 144, 178 |
| 1928 | 13, 102, 162 |
| 1929 | 33, 56 |
| 1930 | 38, 155 |
| 1931 | 16, 102, 146 |
| 1932 | 34, 187 |
| 1933 | 92, 145, 146, 179 |
| 1934 | 34, 150, 219 |
| 1935 | 20, 55, 75 |
| 1936 | 78 |
| 1939 | 191 |
| 1940 | \51 |
| 1949 | 69, 96 |
| 1962 | 14 |
| 1964 | 46, 77 |
| 1965 | 154 |
| 1966 | 66 (intro) |
| 1971 | 30 |
| 1973 | 17 |
| 1976 | 22 |
| 1978 | 41254 |
| 1981 | 41095 |
| 1982 | 11-3 (His. Soc) |
| 1984 | 2-9, 9-17 |
| 1985 | 41065 |
| 1990 | 4-3, 7-13 (centenary) |
| 1992 | 6-3, 7-3 |
| 1993 | 41009 |
| 1994 | 6-4, 8-10 |
| 1995 | 8-8 |
| 1996 | 41255 |
| 1998 | 3-11, 7-6 (centenary), 8-5 |
| 1999 | 2-8, 6-4 |
| 2004 | 41062 |
| Name | Year | Page in Magazine | ||
| Henry | Maddock | 1904 | 238 | |
| T. | Gent | 1909 | 243 | |
| Jane | Taylor | 1910 | 33 | |
| Martha | Homer | 1911 | 112 | |
| Mary | Brooks | 1912 | 53 | |
| Arthur | Tromans | 1912 | 55 | |
| William | Colston | 1914 | 76 | |
| Maggie | Dewhurst | 1914 | 53 | |
| Zacharias | Taylor | 1914 | 55 | |
| Elizabeth | Brooks | 1916 | 104 | |
| W. | T | Slater | 1917 | 158 |
| James | Watson | 1917 | 158 | |
| Joseph | Hillbeck | 1918 | 100 | |
| James | W | Kirkman | 1918 | 73 |
| Isaac | F | Tromans | 1918 | 101 |
| Mrs. | GV | Entwistle | 1919 | 21 |
| William | Bateson | 1923 | 77 | |
| Richard | Horace | Ralphs | 1924 | 12 |
| Ann | Bateson | 1932 | 28 | |
| Elizabeth | Hindley | 1932 | 84 | |
| Jane | Walton | 1932 | 28 | |
| William | Sherrington | 1935 | 69 | |
| Robert | Southern | 1935 | 69 | |
| Thomas | Waters | 1935 | 69 | |
| Mary | Hall | 1939 | 76 | |
| Albert | Homer | 1939 | 124 | |
| Mary | Jane | Sampson | 1939 | 90 |
| Herbert | Walsh | 1939 | 76 | |
| Martha | A | Hodgson | 1940 | 37 |
| Emily | Clara | Montague | 1940 | 37 |
| Joseph | Butler | 1942 | 5 | |
| Elizabeth | Ann | Kirkman | 1942 | 37 |
| Annie | Dobson | 1943 | 21 | |
| Bets2y | Ralphs | 1946 | 30 | |
| W.B. | Ralphs | 1946 | 30 | |
| Harold | Sutton | 1948 | 6 | |
| Robert | Bowker | 1949 | 7 | |
| A. | Bennett | 1950 | 30 | |
| Miss | M | Bond | 1950 | 102 |
| J.T. | Bowker | 1950 | 30 | |
| D. | Arnold | Ralphs | 1963 | 129 |
| Fred | Walton | 1965 | 138 | |
| Frank | Porter | 1970 | 96 | |
| Mrs.E.A. | Bowker | 1976 | 23 | |
| Edith | Farnworth | 1976 | 47 | |
| W. | Preston | 1977 | Jan/Feb | |
| Arthur | Hughes | 1979 | Dec | |
| Edith | Dean | 1980 | Aug | |
| Elsie | Strangeward | 1980 | Aug | |
| Harry | Bibby | 1983 | Jul | |
| Frank | Platt | 1983 | Jul | |
| Randall | Dean | 1986 | Oct | |
| Ann | Jane | Sharples | 1994 | Feb |
| Phyllis | May | Ashworth | 1996 | Nov |
| Doris | Coleclough | 1997 | Jul | |
| Winifred | Caroline | Cowley | 1997 | Jul |
| Edwin | Ralphs | 1997 | Jun | |
| Emily | Taylor | 1997 | Oct | |
| Ronald | Calderbank | 1998 | May | |
| Iris | Hayes | 1998 | Jan | |
| Harry | Miller | Paminter | 1998 | Feb |
| Peter | S | Langton | 2007 | Mar |
| Harry | Walton | 2009 | May P 11 | |
| Wilfred | Hopkins | 2010 | Nov P 10 |