A Summary History of Trinity Church

Wagg St Chapel, 1768 - 1803
Wagg St Chapel
Methodists had been meeting at the house of Thomas Buckley at Peel lane, Astbury, from about 1743. Charles Wesley came to Congleton in October 1746 followed by his brother, John Wesley, the next year, who addressed a crowd from the market cross.  By 1758 there was a chapel behind Samuel Troutbeck's apothecary's shop in Mill Street [later labelled '27, Mill St', occupied for some time by the Co-op and subsequently by Bargain Booze of all things].

 
In 1766, a site was acquired in Wagg Street and a new chapel was ready for Wesley's visit on 25th March, 1768. 

By 1803 the chapel was reported to be in a bad state of repair. Thomas Collins of Burslem was contracted to build a new chapel, preacher's house, and stables. Work commenced in 1807 and the new chapel was opened in 1808. 

Brook St Chapel, Buglawton, Congleton, pre 1968
Brook St Chapel
Queen St Chapel, behind West Street,Congleton, pre 1968
Queen St Chapel

A Sunday school was commenced in 1799. In 1818 a Sunday school building was erected at the back of the Wagg Street chapel and by 1839 there were both day and Sunday schools. New school rooms were built in 1869. 

In 1893 a new manse was built together with a new porch and facade for the chapel, the interior of which was completely refurbished. The architect was Absalom Reade Wood of Burslem. 

In 1947 dry rot was discovered in the front of the chapel and in 1949/50 the porch and facade were rebuilt.


In 1966, the Wagg Street Society (see top picture) united with those at Brook Street (middle) and Queen Street (bottom) and a new chapel, Trinity, was opened on the Wagg Street site in 1968.

John Anderson

     

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