"Crewe Heath Street Cheshire
The following extract is part of a Transcription of an Article in the Christian Messenger by John T. Horne
"If tradition be a reliable authority, the first Primitive Methodist service at Crewe was conducted by the late
Mr. Thomas Wood, of Nantwich, who in his day was a very popular and powerful local preacher of an aggressive type, and whose nephew,
Mr. James Wood, of Willaston, has reproduced some of the best qualities of his revered uncle, and is a very popular local preacher, whose services are in great demand for ‘specials’ in the Tunstall District. The novelty of an open-air service, with its lively singing, and a speaker of good natural powers, with deep and genuine religious feeling, succeeded in attracting a congregation. If their wealth and social position can be measured by the collection taken during the service, the people who formed the first meeting were not richly dowered, for the total only reached fourpence half-penny. That was surely a poor beginning for the establishment of a church. But the seed scattered by that earnest worker was not lost. An unseen, but Divine hand seized the falling grain, and according to the gracious promise, mysteriously multiplied it, causing it to bring forth the rich harvest we see to-day, with the potency of yet richer returns in the coming days."
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This former Primitive Methodist Chapel is a brick built chapel located on Gainsborough Road. The chapel was built in 1903 it opened for worship in 1904 and was closed in 1965.
The building is now incorporated into St. Stephen’s, an active Methodist Church that is part of the Cheshire South Circuit.
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