Forsbrook Methodist Church
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Forsbrook Methodist Church
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 13 May 2021
This small church was built in 1856 as a Primitive Methodist chapel on what was subsequently named Chapel Street. Primitive Methodism was first established in north Staffordshire in the early 19th century and the first chapel was built at Tunstall in 1812. This form of Methodism, whose followers believed their worship was closer the ways of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, was to spread widely, notably to the USA and Australia. In 1932 the Primitive Methodists merged with the Wesleyan Methodist Church and the United Methodists to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain. Today this church in Forsbrook is linked with the larger former Wesleyan chapel in Blythe Bridge.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.971653
Longitude
-2.055054