The Inventory of Methodist Buildings compiled at Methodist Union in 1932 contains an entry for a former United Methodist chapel on Aldergate, Tamworth. The building is described as brick built, seating 50 people on pews, and with 2 Sunday school rooms and one other. In 1940 it was in the Tamworth and Lichfield circuit.
In 2024, the building still exists, but no longer a chapel. It closed as Tamworth Methodist Church with its last service on Sunday afternoon, 22 May 2022. The congregation joined the society in the 1960s building of Saint Andrew’s Methodist Church in Thackeray Drive, Leyfields.
The building still carries its origins in the date 1886 and the words Methodist Free Church in carved stonework. You can read more on Patrick Comerford’s online journal. The Free Methodists (formerly Wesleyan Reformers) built the chapel having previously met in a room in Aldergate that was known as ‘The Hut.’ They bought a plot of land in Aldergate for £250.
Source
Patrick Comerfords online journal accessed 07/01/2025 at https://www.patrickcomerford.com/2022/05/central-methodist-church-on-aldergate.html
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Tamworth, Aldergate UMFC chapel and schools were built in the Gothic style in 1886 and cost £2000. They were designed by Mr A R Wood of Burslem, architect, and Messrs T Watton and Son of Tamworth were the builders.
Building News 7.5.1886 p. 768 and 19;2 1886 p. XXI
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