Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Oxford Street, Malmesbury

Although John Wesley preached in the town three or four times between 1739 and 1741 there was no Wesleyan congregation in the town until the 1880s. On Good Friday 1882 an open air meeting was held at the Market Cross and meetings, during a three month mission, were held in the Town Hall, which was used for services until 1886. In that year a chapel in Oxford Street, behind the Town Hall, was built and this was in use until it was closed in 1919. It was then used by the YMCA for about 50 years and has now been incorporated into the Town Hall. After 1919 the Wesleyans worked with the Primitive Methodists before merging with them in 1932 and becoming the Methodist Church.