Building record 4434/0/0 - Brown Knowl Methodist Church and Attached Sunday School

'Ebenezer Chapel' built in 1836 but demolished and rebuilt in 1913. The new chapel has the tablet from the old chapel reset in the back wall (1).

The 1913 building is listed, as well as a monument in the graveyard (see CSMR: 4434/1/0 and 4434/1/1). Stone dressed red-brown brick building with pebble dashed gables and graded gray slate roof. The church and Sunday school form an L, with the tower and vestry in it's angle. The Church is associated with, and is the burial place for John Wedgwood (see CSMR: 4434/1/0 and 4434/1/1) (2).

The Church is 96m² in plan and the Sunday School is an additional 53m² in plan (3).

<1> Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME), 1994, An Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in the North of England, Cheshire Number 17 (Book). SCH4548.

<2> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /8/29 & /8/30 (Report). SCH1934.

<3> Smithson, A.M., 2010, 'An Army of Ordinary People': religious Nonconformism in Chester and South-West Cheshire 18th-20th Centuries (Unpublished Report). SCH6834.