The Methodist Church, Great Budworth, is a former Wesleyan Methodist Church in the village of

Great Budworth Great Budworth is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, north of Northwich off the A559 road, east of Comberbach, northwest of Higher Marston and southeast of Budworth Heath. Until 1948, Great Budworth was part of the Arley Hall esta ...

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

, England. The church is recorded in the

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as a designated Grade II

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. It was built in the middle of the 19th century for

Rowland Egerton-Warburton Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton (14 September 1804 – 6 December 1891) was an English landowner and poet from the Egerton family in Cheshire. He was a devout Anglican in the high church tradition and a local benefactor. He paid for the re ...

of nearby

Arley Hall Arley Hall is a country house in the village of Arley, Cheshire, England, about south of Lymm and north of Northwich. It is home to the owner, Viscount Ashbrook, and his family. The house is a Grade II* listed building, as is its adjace ...

. It is constructed in brick, has a

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roof, and consists of a rectangular building with a service wing at right angles. It is now closed and is used as a private house.

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Former Methodist churches in the United Kingdom Former churches in Cheshire Grade II listed churches in Cheshire 19th-century Methodist church buildings 19th-century churches in the United Kingdom Methodist churches in Cheshire {{UK-listed-building-stub

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