Spring Vale Methodist , Darwen, Primitive Methodist

The church does not have a graveyard.

It was founded in 1874.

This church is know locally as Spring Vale Methodist Church. The school room and church were completed in 1874. Before this, the congregation had open air services and preaching services in a cottage in Causeway Street and later in Alma Street.

The Primitive Methodist church was an early 19th century (1807) secession from the Wesleyan Methodist church and was particularly successful in evangelising agricultural and industrial communities at open meetings. In 1932 the Primitive Methodists joined with the Wesleyan Methodists and the United Methodists to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain.

It is located at SD7006821028 (Lat/Lon 53.68484, -2.454679). You can see this on maps provided by:

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