I had been to the Bethesda Chapel; but was still pleased to see it again – one of the great monuments of Methodism, opened in 1797 for a congregation of 600 after a dispute between the New Methodist Connexion and the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and enlarged in 1819 by J.H. Perkins, the headmaster of Hanley School, to accommodate 2,500:-
Bethesda actually opened in 1797 not 1799
Thank you. Charles