Melbourne Wesleyan Methodist chapel 1826

This building in Church Street, Melbourne, was the second Wesleyan chapel in the town. It was built in 1826, replacing an earlier chapel dating from 1802, and was replaced by the current chapel next door in 1870. At that point the building was heightened and became the Sunday School. It has now passed out of Methodist use to become a gallery.

According to the return for the Religious census of 1851 the congregations on 31 March 1851 were 165 in the morning and 180 in the evening.

More information may be found on the church website

Grid reference SK 387252

Reference

An inventory of nonconformist chapels and meeting-houses in Central England. London:HMSO, 1986 p52

TNO HO129/444/1/28