Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Tisbury

Methodists began to meet in 1844 in the club room of the Crown Inn and as numbers grew they decided to build a chapel. James Jukes bought a small plot of land in the Quarry and built a chapel there that was used for worship until 1902, when they opened a new chapel in the High Street on 18th June. The old chapel was sold and later used as a storeroom. The chapel, known as the New Wesleyan Church, was built by public subscription and from stone quarried on the site. The foundation stone was laid on 12th September 1901, the architect was Mr T. Wonnacott, and the builder Mr Huish of Street. The chapel could accommodate 250 people, had two vestries and a school hall, and cost £1,850. The congregation grew in numbers during the first part of the 20th century but declined during the second. In 1977 the Congregationalists used the church for separate services, after Zion Hill had been damaged, and later the two churches merged to form the URC/Methodist Church.