Building record 5322 - Wesley Place Methodist Church, Lawton Road, Alsager

<1> Cheshire East Council, 2010, Cheshire East LDF Local List of Historic Buildings (Report). SCH5404.

With the main phase of construction completed in 1869. The walls are of Flemish bonded red brick with blue brick bands and alternating blue and red shaped voussoirs around the oculus and lancet windows. Plate tracery of the windows, the arched porch, corbels and decorative bands are smooth dressed stone with some foliate carving. The roof is well laid slate in regular courses.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, 1873 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ7955, 1876 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

The chapel is first depicted on this map and is labelled a Wesleyan Methodist chapel.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1896-1898, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ7955, 1898 (Maps and Plans). SCH3848.

The chapel has been extended at it's south-eastern end, replacing the previously apse like end.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ7955, 1909 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

Further additions have been made to either side of the south-eastern end.

<5> The GeoInformation Group, 2005, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review (Aerial Photograph). SCH4608.

As previously depicted.

<6> Huntings Surveys Ltd, 1971-1973, 1971-1973 County Survey, HSL UK 73 55 Run 37 no.1129, 15/05/1973 (Aerial Photograph). SCH4881.

An additional building, joined to the chapel building by a smaller link, has been constructed to the south-west.

<7> Bagshaw S, 1850, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County Palatine of Chester, p.363 (Book). SCH383.

A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was first built in Alsager in 1834. Its location is unknown.