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Englesea Brook Lane, CREWE, CW2 5QW

No ordinary chapel, this is "the birthplace of Primitive Methodism". For more information, see http://www.engleseabrook-museum.org.uk/. (By the way, the odd spelling/punctuation of the village name is correct.)

Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum is in the village of Englesea-Brook, Cheshire, England. Built in 1828, the chapel was one of the earliest chapels of the Primitive Methodist movement, and the Sunday school was added in 1914. Since 1986 it has been a museum of Primitive Methodism. The building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. In the chapel is a historic pipe organ. The museum contains artefacts relating to the movement, and arranges a changing programme of exhibitions and other events. In the graveyard near the museum is a monument to Hugh Bourne, founder of the movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englesea_Brook_Chapel_and_Museum

Hugh Bourne was born in Fordhays near Stoke in 1772 and worked as a carpenter but was also a Methodist lay-preacher. He developed a reputation as a zealous preacher but the leadership of the Methodists did not always agree with his radical ideas. When Bourne refused to accept the leadership's ban on camp meetings in 1808, he was expelled from the movement.Bourne and his 200 or so followers became known as Primitive Methodists. Bourne adopted the name from a statement that had been made by John Wesley in 1790: "I still remain a primitive Methodist." Bourne built his first Primitive Methodist Chapel in Tunstall in 1811. By 1842 membership had increased to nearly 80,000 with 500 travelling evangelists and more than 1,200 chapels. Bourne also worked as a missionary in Scotland, Ireland and the USA, he died in 1852.

Where Hugh Bourne is buried

Farm buildings at Manor Farm