Black Country History tells us that:
“Located near Dudley Port railway station, the chapel opened in 1836. The name was unusual for a nonconformist chapel, but is thought to have derived from Sir Horace St Paul, an baronet and industrialist who had considerable land holdings in the area.
In 1990 the congregation combined with that of the Tividale Street Methodist Chapel and a new Dudley Port Methodist centre was opened on the Tividale Street site. Both older buildings were demolished”
The Inventory of Methodist Buildings compiled after Methodist Union in 1932 and published in 1940 contains a record for St Paul’s. It was described as a large, brick-built building, seating 550 people on pews. In addition to the main hall, there were two Sunday school rooms and 4 other rooms. In 1940 it was in the Oldbury circuit.
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G.W. Oxley has discovered information about one of the rebuildings of this chapel:
Dudley Port Chapel Methodist New Connexion chapel was built in the semi-Gothic style in 1871. The chapel was estimated to cost and to seat 500 persons. It measured 51 feet by 40 feet including side
and end galleries. The schools were to be built behind the chapel, were to measure 72 feet by 28 feet, and to accommodate 630 children. The buildings were designed by Edward Pincher, architect, of West Bromwich and the contractor George Haffner of Tipton
Building News, 1.9.1871
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