Radstock was one of those places that had at least three different brands of Methodism – and in at least two examples successive Ordnance Survey maps show the building moving from one sort of Methodist to another.
The 1929 OS map shows the United Methodist chapel on the south side of Wells Road, on the hill west out of Radstock. The 1902 map labels it as Free Methodist – the United Methodist Free Churches were one of the contributory strands to the creation of United Methodist connexion in 1907. However, the 1884 map labels it as “Ebenezer chapel (West Meth)”. Was that Wesleyan Methodist? Why have a “t” in Wesleyan?
There is modern housing on the site in 2022 – Prospect Cottage and Prospect House.. Radstock still has an active Methodist church in Fortescue Road in the former Wesleyan chapel. It is called Trinity to reflect the joining together of the different societies.
Thanks to Jeff Parsons for sourcing the photograph and the attached document dated 1902. That includes a picture of the interior, including the organ by Sweetland of Bath, together with an account of the history of the chapel.
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