The 1940 Inventory of Methodist Buildings contains a record for a former United Methodist chapel in Stirchley, Birmingham.
We are told that it was brick built, and seated 136 people on chairs. In addition to the main hall, there was a Sunday school room and one other room. In 1940 it was in the Birmingham (Bristol Road) circuit.
The 1903 Ordnance Survey map shows a Methodist New Connexion chapel on Pershore Road, at the junction with Mayfield Road. By the 1914 map it is labelled United Methodist chapel and has been enlarged with an extension on its south side – the Sunday school.
Street View in 2024 shows the building still exists, in commercial use. 2008 Street View shows it very recognisably as a chapel.
There is also a former Primitive Methodist chapel at the junction of Pershore Road and Cartland Road – the site of the current St Andrews Methodist church (2024)
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The United Methodist chapel described was registered in 1917, according to ‘Religious History: Places of worship’, in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 7, the City of Birmingham, ed. W B Stephens( London, 1964), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol7/pp434-482 [accessed 19 December 2024].The first chapel on the site was opened by the Methodist New Connexion in 1897.
For reasons relating to the expansion of Birmingham this area was transferred from Worcestershire to Warwickshire in 1911.
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