There was a Wesleyan Association presence in Winchester from the very start. From 1835 to 1839 the society met in a former school in Hyde Close. This photograph of the building was taken by Keith Guyler in 1996.
The Winchester Circuit was established in 1838 and, although not marked on any Ordnance Survey maps, a new chapel was built in Upper Brook Street. The return to the 1851 Religious Census states that it was erected in about 1839, and could seat 130. On Sunday 30 March 1851 Charles Hopper, the minister, reported that 50 people attended the morning service, and 65 the evening.
It does not appear in the Registrar General’s list of places of public worship in 1867.
The chapel seems to have been replaced in 1874 by a new one in the next street, Parchment Street, not far from the Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Any further information would be welcomed.
Sources:
The National Archives HO 129/109/27
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