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This profile of Trelights Bible Christian Chapel has been compiled by Jo Lewis.
Approaching from the north, travel round in a south east direction and the road swings back with a left straight on towards Furze Park (road). At this junction, the old chapel is on the left.
The first Bible Christian Society in Trelights was established in the home of Nicholas Carveth in 1820.
The cottage meetings are reported to have continued until 1837 until a chapel was built – presumption is this chapel. However, there is considerable confusion and overlap in the histories of the Trelights Chapels (see Trelights Methodist Church). It is possible this is the original chapel described as built in 1831 but it is not clear. However, it is the only chapel marked on earliest maps. HeritageGateway: https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO52293&resourceID=1020
Build date: 1831 – by subscriptions and the deeds drawn up in 1833 in a somewhat unorthodox manner. Trelights was one of six Chapels whose deeds were defective from the Wesleyan point of view so they could make no claim on them. This meant that after the ‘disruption’ of 1834-35 when the Wesleyans held on to their Chapels or reclaimed them, the ‘reformers’ (Methodists) built new ones, as in Port Isaac.
Registers show a Trelights Bible Christian Chapel in 1867 and 1901.
It is probable that this chapel remained open until 1907 when the Bible Christians are reported to have joined the Chapel on the Hill. (The Bible Christians merged with the Worshippers on the Hill (the Methodists) and The Bible Christians took their lamps, harmonium and hymn books and the Chapel became their new home. This united group were known as the United Methodists.)
This building is marked on both 1880 and more recent maps as a Bible Christian Chapel. Now converted into a house, the original shape of the chapel, can still be seen. Chapel Villa (can be seen on street view)