Hutton Rudby Methodist Church
John Wesley preached in the village 12 times between 1759 and 1790, a meeting house being in North End .
The Primitive Methodist Church built in 1821 became the Church House after all branches of Methodism combined.
The Methodist Church was built at a cost of £838 in 1879 by the Wesleyan Methodists to replace the old chapel, which was by then "in a worn-out condition". Sunday School was always an important part of Methodism, and the new chapel was built with a schoolroom designed to hold 100 pupils. It is in a simplified Gothic style, with pointed arches over the doors and windows. There used to be railings around the wall in front of the church, but these must have been taken to be melted down for munitions in the War. In 1992 the porch was enlarged, and in 2005 work began on building upper rooms for the church's youth work.
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