Immediately opposite the Potteries Museum is the Bethesda Chapel, known as the cathedral of Methodism, opened in 1798 after the establishment of the New Methodist Connexion, but not big enough as it only held 600 people, so reconstructed in 1819 for 2,000, with three services a day:-
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Wonderful photographs, as usual, of the details of this remarkable building, but you didm’t give us the extraordinary Pulpit which dominates the Chapel – the might of Wesleyan Methodism – and is one of the largest pulpits in the country.