History - The World Wars

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The North wall of the church carries a War memorial (Roll of Honour) presented by Mr E. H. Rooks, Sunday School Superintendent.

A Remembrance Day Service is held annually, on the Sunday which coincides with, or immediately follows, each 11th of November. At 11.00am a poppy wreath is hung below the Roll of Honour followed by a one minute's silence for the congregation to remember those who gave their lives in the two World Wars.

A further poignant memory of the sacrifices made by our young men in the trenches of World War I is provided by a brass plaque in the entrance porch to the church. This refers to one Frederick James Keens, member of Chapel and Sunday School, who was killed in action in June 1915, age 19, near Ypres, Belgium.
In the same month one year earlier he was pictured enjoying the Circuit Gathering in Tatton Park, commemorating the second Chapel's Jubilee.

During World War II the schoolroom was commandeered by the National Emergency Committee and also used as offices of Fuel and Food Control Committee, and as a distribution centre for evacuees.

The waste land to the rear of the Sunday School (now the site of community centre and car park) was turned into a vegetable garden in the 'Dig for Victory' campaign.

These were lean years for the Chapel fellowship, many members being called away into various forms of war service.

Jan 1941 saw the ladies of the Chapel establish and run a 'forces canteen' in the upstairs school-rooms, nightly dispensing refreshments to the off-duty personnel from the various regiments billeted at Tatton Hall.