Tenbury Wells Primitive Methodist Chapels 1863 & 1893
West side of Cross Street, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire
Location GR – SO 59467 68129
The foundation stone of the first Chapel was laid on Thursday 16 April 1863. A full account appeared in the Hereford Times of Saturday 18 April 1863.
This original Chapel is still present on the North West of the site.
The new Chapel was built in 1893 (according to the foundation stones, four legible, two un-legible) parallel to Cross Street.
In 2014 it is still a place of Methodist worship.
Kelly’s Directory 1892 Worcs, P 212 Tenbury, A Primitive Methodist chapel also in Cross street, seating 150.
Kelly’s Directory 1912 Worcs, P 270 Tenbury, A Primitive Methodist chapel also in Cross street, seating 150.
On the 1885 OS Shropshire 1:2,500 map the building is marked as Methodist Chapel (Primitive)
On the 1904 OS Worcestershire 1:2,500 map the building is marked as Sunday School
On the 1969 OS 1:2,500 map the building is marked as TenburyMethodistChurch
The above maps may be viewed at Old Maps.
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The laying of the memorial stones for the new chapel is recorded in the October 1893 Primitive Methodist magazine (page 638). The old chapel, erected 30 years previously, was “insufficient to meet the needs of the church and locality”.
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