The Primitive Methodist Fellowship at Orrell Post was established in 1850 and met originally in cottages in Moor Road and Smiths Road( now Gathurst Road.)  

The first church building was opened in 1876 on a site close to the main cross-roads at Orrell Post with it’s frontage on Orrell Road. The total cost was £600.

The first extension, which consisted of a new frontage with two classrooms, one with a staircase to a gallery furnished with fixed pews, was completed in 1913.

The second extension was completed in 1931 but exact details are a little vague. We think that the back of the church was extended and a rose window inserted in the rear wall. A new schoolroom was added with kitchen and a preachers vestry. Screens between school and chapel were installed and also a dividing screen in the school to provide a possible two classrooms.

The third extension, in 1975, was the major addition of a new schoolroom, linking the existing kitchen and the old schoolroom and was built on the rose garden at the side of the church. The new building could be entered via the church foyer or a side door. The extension was aligned with the existing front of the church. Cost £9280. 60.

Further work has seen the communion area radically altered, new seating, a new toilet suite added, new carpeting and stained glass windows added along the Broxton Avenue side of the church and more recently on the front of the church. Access for the disabled has been provided via the schoolroom and provision for the disabled was included in the new toilet scheme. The church has also installed an amplification and recording system which includes a Loop circuit for the hard of hearing. Audio and CD tapes can now be used to enrich worship.

Mission Statement

THIS CHURCH WILL SEEK TO PROMOTE AND PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, SON OF GOD, SAVIOUR.

SUNDAY Services.                 10.45am (including Junior Church) and  6. 00 pm.

WEEKDAY Activities 

Monday in winter Men’s Meeting- fortnightly 7. 45pm

Tuesday in winter Indoor Bowling 1pm – 4pm.

Wednesday,  in term time,  Shell Group 5+ weekly  6.15pm

Wednesday, Women’s Meeting fortnightly [except  July/August]  2pm.

Thursday,  in term time, Mum’s & Toddlers, 9.45am-11.30am

Wednesdays during winter bowl indoors at Blackpool