[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Lost in Cornwall

It never was Barnes Square Baptists. The chapel that stood on Barnes Square was built by John Mercer as a Wesleyan Chapel, becoming Methodist after Methodist Union in 1932. There was also a Primitive Methodist Chapel in Barnes Street which closed in the 1960's. The Baptist Chapel stood on the corner of Blackburn Road and Atlas Street until it was knocked down and eventually a new chapel was built in Sparth Road.

I have a list of the Clayton men from World War 1, named as on the Oakenshaw Baptist R-O-H. That same R-O-H was recently recovered from a church which is now closed, which I was told was Barnes Sq Meths.