The Primitive Methodist Church was one of the Methodist Churches which united in 1932.
The Primitive Methodists were a major off-shoot of the principal stream of Methodism - the Wesleyan Methodists - in 19th Century Britain. Within the borough of Sunderland in 1858 there were six chapels, six Sunday Schools, 244 teachers, 1,275 scholars, and 786 members.
Chester Road Chapel, was in the old Infirmary Building, which was bought by the Primitive Methodist Conference in 1867, and converted into a Theological Institute. The first batch of students arrived in 1868, and it continued as a college until 1884, when it closed.
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