Warwick Methodist Church

John Wesley never visited Warwick, and the honour of introducing Methodism into the town in 1801 belongs to Thomas Facer, a stonemason from Yorkshire, who started to preach the Gospel in his own home in the Saltisford and in the open air. The early Methodists met for worship in private houses until the 1st short-lived chapel was opened in Chapel Street in 1824. They moved to a 2nd chapel in Stand Street in 1839 and to a 3rd at the foot of Market Street in 1863, and when our Northgate church was built 30 years later.