Failsworth Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Oldham Road

The society was founded in 1785. A chapel building, known as Wrigley Head Chapel, was erected in 1790 and from 1798 the building was also used as a Sunday school. A new, adjoining chapel was built in 1866 and new school-rooms were built on the site of the old chapel in 1878. Instead of belonging to a Manchester circuit, Failsworth was a member of an Oldham circuit: firstly Oldham Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, then the successor Oldham (Manchester Street) Wesleyan Methodist Circuit and then, from 1951, Oldham (West) Methodist Circuit. It was not until 1966 that Failsworth Wesley joined a Manchester circuit, the Manchester (North East) Methodist Circuit, moving on to the Manchester (North) and Middleton Circuit in 1970. In 1988 Failsworth Wesley joined with the Failsworth Bethel society to form Hope Methodist,which met at the Bethel premises and then at Macedonia United Reform Church until the new church was opened in 1991 in Oldham Road, built on the same site as the Wesleyan chapel, which had been demolished in 1989.