Tunstall’s First Methodist Chapel

Tunstall’s first Methodist Chapel was built in 1788 by the Wesleyan Methodists.

It cost £650 and was erected on sloping ground adjacent to ‘the old lane’ that later became America Street. Charles Lawton, a Newcastle builder, and his brother Samson, who came from Tunstall, built the chapel which was forty-five feet long by forty feet wide.