Tillingham Primitive Methodist chapel

Essex Record Office lists the deeds of this chapel in the Maldon Circuit

Deeds of church site
Inc. abstract of title, 1860, to close of land (3a.), copyhold of manor of Tillingham, reciting from 1799; deed of further charge, 20 July 1863, from John Guy of Maldon, dissenting minister, to trustees of Maldon Permanent Benefit Building Society, of parcel of land in erected thereon by said John Guy (D/NM 5/33)

John Guy being the Rev. John Guy, senior.

According to White’s Directory of Essex, 1848 the Primitive Methodists already had a “small meeting house”  at that date.

For a village of about 1000 souls, Tillingham was very well resourced for places of worship, with accommodation for Anglicans, Baptists, Independents and Peculiar People in addition to the Primitive Methodists. Evidence from Ordnance Survey maps suggests that this chapel survived into the 1920s, but it was not listed in the 1940 Methodist property returns.

Essex chapels tend not to be noticed by the compilers of the Primitive Methodist histories or in the pages of the Primitive Methodist Magazine, so any further information about Tillingham would be welcomed.