The first Bible Christian chapel in Selsey was Bethesda, in East Street. It is recorded in A Jubilee Memorial of Incidents in the Rise and Progress of the Bible Christian Connexion that “it was erected through the labours of Mr. Phillips in 1835. Sixteen years later the minister, William Clarke, made a return to the Religious Census in which he stated that the chapel could accommodate 115. Which was just as well as the morning congregation was 112 and the evening 113 on Sunday 30th March, 1851. In the afternoon 175 children attended the Sunday School. The actual location of this chapel has not been established.
The chapel was replaced by the current Methodist church in the High Street in 1867.
Sources:
The National Archives. H.O.129/92/10
A Jubilee Memorial of Incidents in the Rise and Progress of the Bible Christian Connexion. Shebbear: published for the Bible Christian Book Committee by JamesThorne, 1865 p134
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