“We have had a society in this place for some years; but its progress has been retarded for want of a more convenient place of worship. We have at length erected a neat little chapel, twenty-six by eighteen feet outside, seventeen feet high, with a gallery in one end. It was opened July 16,1837, when Mr. H. Bourne preached morning and night, and the Rev. Mr. Ashwell (Independent) of Bromsgrove, in the afternoon. The congregations were large, numbers could not get in. The collections were liberal, and services powerful. Had the work been done and the materials purchased at the regular trade price, it would have cost about one hundred and fifty pounds, but we shall not have more than one hundred pounds debt upon it. It is well attended, and settled on the Connexion.”
Source
Primitive Methodist Magazine, 1838. Pages 71-72
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My thanks to Christopher Hill for locating the additional information for this chapel. This provides valuable resource to add to the chapel’s history.
It’s a pleasure! It will be worth looking at the actual account in the Magazine for further detail.
The Primitive Methodist magazine for April 1851 (p 247) includes an account by J Huff of the re-opening of the chapel in 1850. It explained that the congregation had been having problems because of a spring of water under floor of the first chapel; so a new floor was installed.
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