Plymouth Grove Wesleyan Mehodist Church Plymouth Grove Wesleyan
Methodist Church was founded in 1879 on the corner of Hyde Grove and
Plymouth Grove, in what was then Chorlton-upon-Medlock. It was
located just a block away from the home of the Gaskell Family.
   The Central Library's image
collection has a photograph of the church in 1965 but at some point
after that it closed and was demolished. Today there are some
clues to the fact that it once occupied the site. The first is
the building below which you can also see in the image at the top of
the page and may have been a church hall. Today it seems to be
more commercial than eclesiastical.
 The second is a small cluster
of stones in the ground at the corner of the street. The arrow in
the image below points to what appear to be fragments of the former
church gateway.
 In the intervening years the
site has clearly been home to a place of worship called the "Renshaw
House & Church". When I took these photographs in 2010 it
appeared as if the church may be closed.
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