St George's Primitive Methodist Chapel

Church Street, Telford, Shropshire TF2 9JY

Information about this chapel can be viewed by following the link to Shropshire’s Nonconformist Chapels.

In 2018 the former chapel (opened in 1860) and its adjacent schoolroom (opened in 1876) are used as supported accommodation in Beatrice Webb House.

A report on the second anniversary services held on Sunday September 28th 1862 is in the Primitive Methodist magazine of 1863  (page 114).  J Wood (Nantwich) preached two able discourses and Mr Cadman preached well.  J Cadman wrote the report.

Embroidered sheet.

I’ve added pictures of a sheet embroidered by Miranda Fox in 1922.   The embroidery shows all the names of the members of St George’s (Telford) Primitive Methodist Church 1922. The occasion is a bazaar.

The pictures were provided by Miranda Fox’s son in law, Nigel Humphreys.  Miranda was his mother-in-law,  also known as René. The story is curious because apparently not only did she create the work in 1922 for a Chapel Bazaar but it was presented back to her in 1923. Nigel reads the name of the presenter and ‘sincere friend’ as Jno Phillips – the Jno presumably being initials but he has no idea who she or he is.

 

Comments about this page

  • Nigel – The large embroidered sheet crafted in 1922 by your late wife’s mother with the names of the chapel members sounds like a unique memorial; I’ve not come across one before.
    I’m sure that the folk at Englesea Brook Museum of Primitive Methodism in Cheshire would be interested in giving the sheet a home in the collection.
    It would also be good to add a picture of the memento to this page. You can send the picture by e-mail to enquiries@engleseabrook.org.uk.

    Pictures now attached

    By Christopher Hill (31/07/2023)
  • We have in our possession a large sheet embroidered with all the names of the members of St George’s (Telford) Primitive Methodist Church 1922. The occasion is a bazaar. Many of the names are recognisable as aunties and uncles and the embroidery was apparently done by my late wife’s mother. As you can see it is more than 100 years old but the church or chapel appears to no longer exist. We’re trying to donate it appropriately. Do you have any suggestions? I can email you images of it if you wish.

    By Nigel Humphreys (31/07/2023)
  • WELLINGTON JOURNAL, 2 May 1863, page 3.
    “ST GEORGE’S.
    CHAPEL REOPENING. On Sunday last the Primitive Methodist Jubliee Chapel was re-opened for Divine worship, after having been closed for six weeks for the erection of a gallery. All the timber, consisting of the gallery, sittings, and doors which were in the old church at St. George’s, was bought by the trustees of this chapel as materials for the gallery. The cost of materials, new gas lights, painting, and workmanship will be from £80 to £90; and the collections which were made at the time of closing, and the profits of a tea meeting, with the collections made last Sabbath, which amounted to £8 10s. 0½d., and donations, collecting cards, &c. make about £40 altogether; and the trustees are determined, if possible, that the expenses of the gallery shall not increase the debt on the building. The gallery looks very neat, and has a very imposing appearance, and we believe would not have looked much better had new materials been used for the purpose. It will accommodate about 150 people, having three seats deep on each side, and five deep at the end. Some of the friends connected with the Primitive Methodist Society here, in addition to aiding in the general measures used in paying for the gallery, are voluntarily giving and soliciting subscriptions for a new cushion for the pulpit, carpeting for the pulpit steps, and a large gas sun-light fixed in the centre of the ceiling. J. Wood, Esq., of Nantwich, and the Rev. J. Prosser, of Wrockwardine-wood, preached the sermons on Sunday last.”
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    By Janice Cox (11/11/2020)
  • I’ve added some pictures of St George’s Primitive Methodist chapel and adjacent schoolroom. The chapel’s datestone must be the most perversely located one that I have ever seen

    By Christopher Hill (01/09/2018)

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