Eaglescliffe Primitive Methodist chapel

The Primitive Methodist magazine of October 1899 comments that few areas had shown greater activity during the previous year or two than Stockton on Tees – including acquiring the site and preparing for building works  for a new chapel in Eaglescliffe.  The energy came from Rev. E Phillipson, with generous support from R Clapham and his son JR Clapham.

The 1901 magazine records that the chapel was in the course of erection.

The 1916 Ordnance Survey map shows a Primitive Methodist chapel with a distinctive footprint at the junction of Witham Avenue and Yarm Road. Street View shows that the chapel is still there and open for worship as Trinity Methodist church in 2016.  It was a distinctive building of its era.

Reference

Primitive Methodist magazine October 1899 page 798

Primitive Methodist magazine December 1901 page 952