Tenbury Methodist Church
[Primitive] Methodist Chapel
The old chapel (left) and the present building (right).
Before 1800, a room in Church Street was hired by the Wesleyans for their exclusive use as a preaching room. The 1851 Religious Census return states that there was a congregation of 30 on March 30th of that year. There was no Sunday School.
A Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in Cross Street in 1863 and the present chapel was erected in front of it in 1893-4, the architect being WW Robinson of Hereford. Robinson was born in Hanley Castle and his wife is listed on a census return as being a fruiterer.
References and some further sources:
Aiken, John. Census of Religious Worship, 1851: The Returns for Worcestershire (2000)
Brooks, Alan, and Nikolaus Pevsner. Buildings of England: Worcestershire (2007)
Kelly’s Directories of Worcestershire
n.b. Full details of these books are on the bibliography and sources page.
Websites: British History Online: Entry for Tenbury.
Tenbury Methodist Church Website.
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