Great Bridge New Road Methodist New Connexion chapel

New Road Methodist Church Centre at the junction with Mount Street is on the site of the former New Road United Methodist church.

The inventory of Methodist Buildings compiled after Methodist Union in 1932 and published in 1940 contains an entry for New Road United Methodist chapel, in Great Bridge.  We are the told the brick built building was sizable, seating 525 people on pews.  In addition to the main worship area there was a Sunday school and 3 other rooms.

In 1940, the chapel was in the Oldbury circuit – and it is noted that it had suffered war damage.  On 17 May 1941, six people died in an air raid in New Road, Great Bridge. Tipton Tavern and New Road Methodist Church were destroyed and a number of nearby houses were damaged.

There are baptism records for the chapel from 1865- which at that time was a Methodist New Connexion chapel –  and it is marked on the 1887 Ordnance Survey map .