Burnley Road East, Lumb
The first Baptists in the Lumb Valley acquired a small meeting house in 1750 at Buller Trees but after ten years they joined with the Baptists at Goodshaw to erect a new building there, and went over the hill to Goodshaw to worship for the next sixty years. In 1825 a Sunday school was formed at Lumb and in 1827 a meeting house was opened at Pinch Clough. The Baptist cause was formerly re-established by eighteen members on the 19th November 1828. A year later it was decided to erect a purpose built church at a cost of £600. The church, which included a burial ground was opened for worship on the 27th March 1831, though the first burial had taken place on 5th October 1830. Over the next fifty years the congregation steadily increased and on the 27th July 1882 with the membership standing at two hundred and fifty a new chapel was built at a cost of £3,000. This chapel served the congregation for the next ninety years with membership reaching over three hundred by the turn of the century. By the early nineteen seventies, with falling attendance and with the chapel in need of extensive repairs, it was decided to pull down the old chapel and to use part of the renovated Sunday School for worship, with the last service being held in the old chapel on the 10th June 1973.
