Plymouth Grove Wesleyan
Mehodist Church Plymouth Grove
Wesleyan Methodist Church was founded in 1879 on
the corner of Hyde Grove and Plymouth Grove, in
what was then Chorlton-upon-Medlock. It
was located just a block away from the home of
the Gaskell Family.
   The Central
Library's image collection has a photograph of
the church in 1965 but at some point after that
it closed and was demolished. Today there
are some clues to the fact that it once occupied
the site. The first is the building below
which you can also see in the image at the top
of the page and may have been a church
hall. Today it seems to be more commercial
than eclesiastical.
 The second
is a small cluster of stones in the ground
at the corner of the street. The arrow
in the image below points to what appear to
be fragments of the former church gateway.
 In the
intervening years the site has clearly
been home to a place of worship called
the "Renshaw House & Church".
When I took these photographs in 2010 it
appeared as if the church may be closed.
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