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Packington, Leicestershire, Holy Rood. Another view, interior view, and the font. Grade II* listed. The former Methodist Church, now in residential use. All © David Regan (2016).
Packmoor, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire - see Stoke-on-Trent.
Packwood, West Midlands, St. Giles. Interior view. Both © Aidan McRae Thomson. Link.
Padbury, Buckinghamshire, St. Mary the Virgin. Two interior views - 1, 2, and the font. Another font stands in a corner. Some very fragmentary wall paintings survive. SP 7214 3091. All © David Regan (2018). Link. Grade II* listed. A former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (Streetview in 2021) stands on Main Street at SP 7185 3061. It has a date-stone for 1876. There was also a Primitive Methodist Chapel on Lower Way, dated here to 1841. The only available map to show it (1885) isn't clear about which building the label is meant to be applied to - there is no label on the next map of 1900. It will have stood somewhere near to SP 7204 3065. There are no obvious candidates for a surviving building, but it will have been somewhere near to the 2011 Streetview here. 
Paddington, Greater London.
Paddlesworth (near Snodland), Kent, the redundant St. Benedict. TQ 685 621. © Alan K. Taylor (1992). Grade II* listed - link.
Paddlesworth, Kent, St. Oswald. 189 TR 196 398. From an old postcard, Geoff Watt's Collection. Link1. Link2.
Paddock, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire - see Huddersfield.
Paddock Wood, Kent.
Padfield, Derbyshire, the Independent/Congregational Church on Temple Street. SK 0303 9617. © Mike Berrell. Interior view (taken through window), © Mike Berrell (2011). Link. The former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (1880-1), on Post Street, now in secular use. SK 0296 9627. © Mike Berrell. It had a predecessor of 1828 on Padfield Main Road at SK 0313 9632. Its site was seen by Streetview in 2017. Link (includes a drawing of the 1828 chapel).
Padgate, Warrington, Cheshire - see Warrington.
Padiham, Lancashire.
Padog, Conwy, Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. It's dated here to a re-build in 1896 of a chapel of 1871. SH 8392 5141. © Mike Berrell.
Padstow, Cornwall.
Padworth, Berkshire, St. John the Baptist. SU 6133 6616. From an old postcard (posted in 1906) in Judy Flynn's Collection. Three modern views - 1, 2, 3, and the lych-gate, all Karel Kuča (2023). Link. Grade I listed.
Paglesham, Essex, St. Peter. © Roger Heap (2015). Link. Grade II* listed.
Paignton, Devon.
Pailton, Warwickshire, St. Denys. © Aidan McRae Thomson.
Painscastle, Powys, Adullam Baptist Chapel (1848). Painscastle Congregational Church. Both © Gerard Charmley (2011).
Painswick, Gloucestershire.
Painter's Forstal, Kent, Whitehill Chapel (Anglican and Methodist). TQ 992 588. © Geoff Watt.
Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Pakenham, Suffolk, Blessed Virgin Mary. Another view. TL 9298 6706. Both © Chris Kippin (2021). Link1. Link2. Grade I listed.
Palmer's Elm, Somerset, the former Methodist Church (built as Providence Wesleyan Chapel, 1838, closed 1978), now in residential use. ST 3954 6383. © Carole Sage (2016). Grade II listed.
Palterton, Derbyshire, the former St. Luke Mission Rooms. This source dates it to circa 1875, and says it has been closed, but David thought it looked to be still active. SK 4751 6853. © David Regan (2020). Link. O.S. maps show Chapel (Site of) at SK 4746 6823. It's site possibly lies beneath the building behind the shrub, to the right of, and gable-end to the access road seen in a Streetview in 2023. Link.
Pamphill, Dorset, St. Stephen. Wikipedia says it stands on the site of a medieval predecessor. ST 9883 0096. © Bill McKenzie. Four more views - 1, 2, 3, 4, all © Karel Kuča (2011). Link. Grade II listed - dates it to 1907. A monument in the churchyard is listed as grade II.
Pampisford, Cambridgeshire, St. John the Baptist (C). Another view. TL 4977 4824. Both © David Regan (2019). Link. Grade II* listed. The churchyard war memorial has a separate listing as grade II.
Panbride, Angus, Church of Scotland. Another view. Both © Derek Robertson. Link.
Pandy, Monmouthshire, Zoar Baptist Chapel. Steps lead down to the river for baptisms. The derelict Hope Calvinistic Methodist Church (1855). Interior view, and the pulpit. All © Gerard Charmley (2010).
Pandy Tudur, Conwy, St. David. The Coflein entry dates it to the 1860's and has an interior and two exterior photos. SH 8617 6472. Two 2009 Streetviews - 1, 2. Capel Bethania (Calvinistic Methodist) is a re-build in 1907 of a chapel of 1826, as per the Coflein entry. SH 8590 6433. © Martin Briscoe.
Panfield, Essex, St. Mary and St. Christopher. Another view. TL 7385 2534. Both © Karel Kuča (2024). Link1. Link2. Grade II* listed - calls it St. Mary the Virgin.
Pangbourne, Berkshire, St. James the Less. SU 6342 7643. © Peter Morgan. Interior view, from an old postcard in Judy Flynn's Collection. Link. Grade II* listed. St. Bernadette (R.C.) on Horseshoe Road, as seen by Streetview in 2021. SU 6382 7618. Link. Old O.S. maps show two "Chap.", but don't identify them more closely - and neither of them have survived. The more northerly stood at the junction of Thames Avenue and Whitchurch Road, at SU 6356 7664. Genuki identifies it as Primitive Methodist, "before 1899", "closed after 1973". There's now a house on the site, seen by Streetview in 2021. The site of the other, also on Whitchurch Road at SU 6356 7656, is now occupied by an optician's, seen by Streetview in 2021. Genuki identifies this one as Congregational. Genuki also mentions a Friends' Meeting House, but I haven't been able to locate it.
Pannal, North Yorkshire, St. Robert of Knaresborough. SE 306 517. © Bill Henderson. Interior view and East Window, both © Kenneth Paver. Grade II* listed. Methodist Church. SE 298 519. © Bill Henderson (2014).
Pant, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil - see Dowlais.
Pant, Shropshire, Primitive Methodist Chapel (1865). SJ 272 220. © Mike Berrell (2010). The date-stone, © Dennis Harper (2014). The former Congregational Church (1907), now in secular use. SJ 276 225. © Mike Berrell (2010). Another view. © Les Needham (2011).
Pant Glas (or Pantglas, Pant-Glas, or Pant-Glâs), Gwynedd, Libanus Chapel, (Calvinistic Methodist, 1868 - date-stone, ). There is another date-stone above the door. Two additional views - 1, 2. SH 472 473. All © Howard Richter (2014). Link.
Pant-Mawr, Powys, Capel Uchaf (Calvinistic Methodist, 1874) was re-built on the site of an earlier building. Another view. Both © Gerard Charmley.
Pantasaph, Flintshire, St. David (R.C.). © Martin Briscoe. Another view. © Carl Hogan (2010).
Panteg, Pembrokeshire, former Independent Chapel (1863), now abandoned. SM 927 350. © Mike Berrell (2010).
Pantycrugiau, Ceredigion, Capel y Crugiau (Independent), just west of Maes-y-Crugiau, is currently (2008) undergoing renovation. Mike says that the congregation are temporarily meeting in the vestry opposite. Coflein dates it to an 1897 re-build of a chapel built in 1848 and first re-built in 1858. Google Maps currently (2023) labels it as Plwmp Chapel. SN 3659 5237. © Mike Berrell. Capel y Annibynwyr (1925) stands directly across the road, and must be the building Mike described as the vestry. SN 3658 5237. © Mike Berrell.
Pantygog, Bridgend, Salem Baptist Chapel - a "tin tabernacle". © Gervase N. E. Charmley.
Panxworth, Norfolk, All Saints. © Geoff Watt. Link.
Papa Stour, Shetland, the former Church of Scotland. Two interior views - 1, 2. All © Tim Flitcroft (2016).
Papcastle, Cumbria, Mission Church. NY 1091 3131. According to the village website, this was originally a Sunday School, which later became a Mission from Bridekirk, but is now converted to residential use. © Steve Bulman (2011).
Papplewick, Nottinghamshire, St. James. Two additional views - 1, 2. Dennis also photographed this curious carved stone, which is probably one of the stones bearing a carving of bellows, mentioned here. SK 5457 5153. All © Dennis Harper (2020). Grade I listed.
Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire, St. Peter. TL 2826 6264. © Jim Rushton. Link. Grade II* listed. The lych-gate is also listed, as grade II. St. Thomas Indian Orthodox Church on Church Lane was previously St. Luke's Methodist Church, which it still was when the Streetview van made its only visit in 2010. TL 2856 6283. Link. The 1:25,000 O.S. map of 1951 shows another place of worship on the west side of Ermine Street North at TL 2845 6311. I haven't been able to find out what it was. I think it stood between the two blocks of housing seen in a 2022 Streetview.
Papworth St. Agnes. Cambridgeshire. Oddly, dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Now in the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches. Another view. TL 2693 6448. Both © Jim Rushton. Link. Grade II* listed.
Par, Cornwall.
Parbold, Lancashire, Our Lady & All Saints (R.C.). SD 495 107. © Chalmers Cursley. Link.
Parc, Gwynedd, Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. Originally built in 1810, it was (according to this link), re-built and/or modified in 1852 and 1875. SH 876 339. © Peter Morgan (2013).
Pardshaw, Cumbria, a former chapel, now a house. Janet Gimber advises that this was Wesleyan Methodist. NY 0971 2486. © Philip Kapp. The Friends' Meeting House at Pardshaw Hall. NY 1038 2547. George Fox preached from the nearby Pardshaw Crag in the mid-17th century. Both © Alan Marsden (2021).
Parham, West Sussex, St. Peter. From an old postcard (franked 1905) in Steve Bulman Collection. Link.
Park, Greater Manchester - see Ramsbottom.
Park Gate, Hampshire, St. Margaret Mary (R.C.). © Graeme Harvey.
Park Gate, South Yorkshire - see Rawmarsh.
Parkend, Gloucestershire, St. Paul. Baptist Church. Both © Graeme Harvey.
Parkgate, Cheshire, St. Thomas on School Lane, aka The Fisherman's Church. The church website says that it was built as Congregational in 1843, was later Presbyterian, and Church of England from 1917. SJ 2789 7825. © Bruce Read. Grade II listed. Mostyn House School Chapel stands set back from (and is invisible from) The Parade, at SJ 2803 7795. It was seen by Streetview from Grenfell Court in 2022. There's a better image on its grade II listing, where it's dated to 1895.
Parkfields, Wolverhampton, West Midlands - see Wolverhampton.
Parkgate, Co. Antrim, 1st Donegore Presbyterian (1827). J 228 878. © Gerard Close (2013).
Parkham, Devon, St. James. The fine south doorway, the interior and the font. SS 3890 2151. All © Chris Kippin (2024). Link. Grade II* listed. The Methodist Church is on Chapel Road, and was originally Wesleyan. Older maps show that the part of the church nearest to the camera was the Sunday School, with the church behind. SS 3888 2158. Link.

Parkmill, Swansea, Mount Pisgah Congregational Chapel (1822). Another view. Both © Gerard Charmley (2011).
Parkstone, Dorset, St. Peter. © Roger Hopkins. Link. The former Salterns Road Methodist Church. © Graeme Harvey (2011).
Parkwood, Maidstone, Kent - see Maidstone.
Parkstone, Poole, Dorset - see the Poole page.
Parr, St. Helens, Merseyside - see St Helens.
Parracombe, Devon, St. Petrock at Churchtown (no longer in use; now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, and kept unlocked). It's labelled as St. Peter on older O.S. maps. SS 6747 4495. From an old postcard in Steve Bulman's Collection. A modern view, and the sun-dial, both © Martin Richter (2011). Interior view, © Lesley Baxendale. Link. Grade I listed. Numerous tombs and headstones in the churchyard are also listed here. Christ Church (O). Another view. SS 6693 4485. Both © Martin Richter (2011). Interior view, © Lesley Baxendale. Link. Grade II listed, wherein it's dated to 1878. Wesleyan House, a former Methodist Chapel, is dated 1839 as Wesleyan. SS 6674 4477. © Martin Richter (2011). A former Plymouth Brethren Chapel survives (converted, or replaced on the same site, now Woodcote) at Bodley Cross, at SS 6695 4497. It was seen by Streetview in 2024, and it pre-dates a map of 1888. Link.
Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire, St. John the Baptist - now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Another view. TF 3903 0909. Both © David Regan (2016). Link. Grade II* listed. For several listed headstones in the churchyard, see here. Church of Emmanuel on Main Road, undergoing works. Another view. TF 3729 0858. Both © David Regan (2016). Link. Grade II listed. St. Mark (Methodist), as seen by Streetview in 2021. It stands just a few yards east of Emmanuel. TF 3733 0859.
Partick, Glasgow - see the City of Glasgow page.
Partington, Greater Manchester.
Partney, Lincolnshire, St. Nicholas. Two interior views - 1, 2, the chancel, and the font. A stone in the churchyard commemorates Matthew Flinders, who was married here. TF 4104 6837. All © David Regan (2019). Grade II* listed.
Parton, Cumbria, Methodist Church. Unused since 2004, planning permission for demolition was granted in 2006. None of the available maps label it more closely than Church, or Ch., but it is probably the Bank Yard Road United Methodist Free Church mentioned here as dating from 1861. NX 9782 2028. © Steve Bulman. Housing was subsequently built on the site, and Chapel House and Chapel Villa were seen by Streetview in 2022. An Independent Chapel is shown on a map of 1867, at NX 9794 2052. It still shows as active on mid-20th century maps. Now demolished, it stood set back from the road, running away from the rear of the playground seen in a Streetview from 2022.
Parton, Dumfries & Galloway, the Parish Church (CoS). Another view. NX 6968 6991. Both © James Murray (2009). Link. Category B listed. To the left in the first photo, and now forming part of a walled burial area, is the remaining fragment of the old parish church. Its Category B listing, which calls it St. Inan, dates it to 1592.
Partry, Co. Mayo, St. Mary (R.C.). © Len Brankin.
Parwich, Derbyshire, St. Peter. Interior view. SK 1883 5435. Both © James Murray. Link. Grade II* listed. The former Methodist Church on Dam Lane, and its interior (taken through a window). Older maps label it as Wesleyan, and this source dates it to 1847 or 1849. Its condition appears to be deteriorating - 2023 Streetview. The Methodists now share St. Peter. SK 1856 5439. Both © Gervase N. E. Charmley (2011).
Passenham, Northamptonshire, St. Guthlac. Two interior views - 1, 2, the latter showing the wall paintings, and the modern font. All © David Regan (2017). Link. Grade I listed.
Paston, Norfolk, the 14th century St. Margaret on Bacton Road. Interior view. TG 322 344. Both © Richard Roberts (2018). Link1. Link2. Grade I listed.
Patchway, Gloucestershire, Holy Name (R.C.). © Graeme Harvey.
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, St. Cuthbert. Interior view and window. This bell is reputed to have been brought from Fountains Abbey. All © Steve Bulman (2010).
Pathfinder Village, Devon, St. John the Evangelist. Chris advises that, according to Wikipedia, Pathfinder mobile home village is the only one in the UK whose name is recorded by the Ordnance Survey. SX 8425 9320. © Chris Kippin (2021). Link.
Pathhead, East Ayrshire, the former Gospel Hall. NS 6194 1437. © Howard Richter (2014). PoWiS.

Pathhead, Kirkcaldy, Fife - see Kirkcaldy.
Patna, East Ayrshire, Waterside Church of Scotland (1837) on Main Street. Two further views - 1, 2. The adjacent church hall dates from 1898. NS 4122 1064. All © Howard Richter (2014). As of 2025 Google Streetmaps is labelling the church as permanently closed. PoWiS. The former Free Church, on Main Street. Map evidence suggests it was built after 1896, and before 1909, when it shows as U.F. Church (PoWiS says 1901-3). It continued showing on O.S. maps at least up to the 1985 edition (United Free Church). Evidently now closed, this photo on an external website, is from 2006, and the church appears to be being looked after, so was possibly still active at that date. Another view. NS 4150 1055. Both © Howard Richter (2014). It had been preceded by an earlier church at circa NS 4143 1056, which shows on the 1857 map, and it continued in use as the church hall, at least until 1962, when it is shown as such on the O.S. map of that year. PoWiS dates it to 1838 (as United Secession), and demolished after 2002. The first Streetview (2009) shows that it been demolished by then. The former Ebenezer Gospel Hall on Main Street, which was for sale in 2014. PoWiS dates the church to 1990 (when they bought the building, closing it in 2011. Another view. NS 4129 1068. Both © Howard Richter (2014).
Patrick Brompton, North Yorkshire, St. Patrick. © Bill Henderson. Another view, and an interior view, both © Alan Blacklock.
Patricroft, Eccles, Greater Manchester,
Patrington, East Riding of Yorkshire, St. Patrick. © Bill Henderson. Three additional views - 1, 2, 3, all © David Regan (2016). Two interior views - 1, 2 - both © Bernard Hylands. Link. Grade I listed.
Patrington Haven, East Riding of Yorkshire, former Primitive Methodist Church, now a private residence. © James Murray.
Patrishow, Powys, St. Ishow (or Issui). SO 2789 2243. From an old illustration (mid 1930's) in Colin Waters' Collection. Old postcard views of the interior and screen, both from Christopher Skottowe's Collection. Interior view, showing the screen, a detail, and the font, all © Christopher Skottowe (1964). Coflein entry. Link. Grade I listed. Other listed features associated with the church can be found here.
Patrixbourne, Kent, St. Mary. TR 189 558. From an old postcard, Geoff Watt's Collection. A modern view. © Geoff Watt. Two additional views - 1, 2. The chief glory of the church are the Norman survivals - the priests doorway, and the spectacular south doorway. The handsome wheel window, two interior views - 1, 2, a window, and the font. All © Steve Bulman (2014). Link1. Link2. Grade I listed.
Patshull, Staffordshire, St. Mary (1743, with Victorian alterations). © Dennis Harper (2011). Link. Grade II* listed - link.
Patterdale, Cumbria, St. Patrick. NY 3929 1611. © Steve Bulman. Link. Its grade II listing dates it to 1853, and says it replaced an earlier church of circa 1600, but whether it was on the same site isn't stated.
Pattingham, Staffordshire, St. Chad. Interior view, and font. All © Dennis Harper (2010). An old postcard view of the interior, from Dennis Harper's Collection.  Link. Grade II* listed.
Pattishall, Northamptonshire, Holy Cross. A pre-Norman church once stood on this site, and the church is mentioned in Domesday. Six additional views - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. SP 671 543. Grade II* listed. The former General Baptist Chapel (1839), now converted to residential use. SP 6685 5430. Both © Howard Richter (2015).
Paul, Cornwall, St. Pol de Leon. SW 4645 2708. © Andrew Ross. Another view, © Bill Henderson (2009). Link.
Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, St. James the Great. © Jane Marriott. Another view. © Bernard Hylands. U.R.C. SP 723 455. © Les Needham.
Paull, East Riding of Yorkshire, St. Andrew. Link. Methodist Chapel. Both © James Murray.
Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny, St. John (COI).  © Liam Murphy.
Paulton, Somerset, Holy Trinity. Interior view. Link. Grade II* listed. The Baptist Church on Winterfield Road was built as Particular Baptist in 1721, and re-built in 1827 - date-stone. Link. Grade II listed. Methodist Church, at the junction of High Street and Park Road. It was built as Wesleyan in 1826. Another view. Link. Grade II listing, which dates it to 1894. The former Primitive Methodist Chapel on Park Road, now in residential use. The small sign reads "Newtown Chapel", so perhaps this was what it was known as. Another view. The former Catholic Church, Our Lady of Paulton, off Winterfield Road. It appears on maps of 1971 and 1981. Older maps show a building with the same footprint (though not marked as a church), and it is obviously residential now, so was the church a temporary arrangement? All © Janet Gimber (2016).
Pauntley, Gloucestershire, St. John the Evangelist. © Graeme Harvey (2013). Grade I listed.
Pavenham, Bedfordshire, St. Peter. Interior view. SP 9914 5595. Both from old postcards in Judy Flynn's Collection. A modern view, © David Regan (2018). Link. Grade I listed. Older O.S. maps show a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on High Street, at SP 9886 5549. The village Wikipedia entry dates it to 1857. It seems to have still active after the war (it shows on a map from 1956). Its site can be seen on a Streetview from 2019. The village also had a Primitive Methodist Chapel, dated here to no later than 1842 - 1890's. Now converted to residential use, it was seen by Streetview in 2019. SP 9866 5548.
Pawlett, Somerset, St. John the Baptist. ST 30085 42648. © Chris Kippin (2019). Link. Grade I listed.
Paxton, Borders, Church of Scotland (1907). Its category C listing dates it to 1908. NT 9342 5306. © Bill Henderson (2012). Link says it used to be United Free.
Payhembury, Devon, St. Mary the Virgin. The interior, screen and detail. ST 0887 0179. All © Chris Kippin (2022). Link. Grade I listed. For listed features in the churchyard, see here.
Paythorne, Lancashire, Methodist Church. © Steve Bulman.

Peak Dale, Derbyshire, Holy Trinity (unsafe, and now closed) on School Road. The foundation stone. Two interior views - 1, 2, both taken through windows. SK 0873 7646. All © Mike Berrell (2010). 2024 news story. Peak Dale Methodist Church on Upper End Road, previously Upper End Primitive Methodist. It's dated here to the 1860's - 2014. SK 0898 7612. © Mike Berrell (2010).
Peak Forest, Derbyshire, Charles, King and Martyr. SK 1136 7920. © Chris Emms (2009). Five interior views - 1, 2 (both of Needham's Chapel), 3, 4, 5, all © Mike Berrell (2010). Link. Grade II listed - dates it to 1876-7. The former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel of 1851, now in secular use. It pre-dates a map of 1883. SK 1141 7945. © Mike Berrell (2010).
Peakirk, Cambridgeshire, St. Pega - apparently a unique dedication. TF 1681 0669. © Robin Peel. Link. Grade I listed.
Pear Tree Green, Southampton, Hampshire - see Southampton. 
Peasedown St. John, Somerset, St. John the Baptist on Church Lane. Another view. Link. Grade II listed. The former Baptist Church on Eckweek Road, now a day nursery. Methodist Church on Bath Road, originally Primitive Methodist. Link. St. Joseph (R.C.) on Ashgrove. Link. Christadelphian Hall on Huddox Hill. Link. All © Janet Gimber (2016).
Peasenhall, Suffolk, St. Michael and All Angels. © Kevin Price (2012). Link. Grade II* listed - link.
Peasemore, Berkshire, St. Barnabas on Field Road and Prince's Lane. Although the base of the tower is 18th century, most of the church dates from the mid-19th. Interior view. SU 4580 7708. Both from old postcards in Judy Flynn's Collection, posted respectively in 1918 and 1913. A modern view, and the interior, both © Richard Roberts (2018). Link. Grade II listed. Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Chapel shows on old maps a little way west of the village, at SU 4543 7740. It's dated here (where there is a photo) to 1831, with an enlargement in 1853. Demolished in 1922, the bungalow on the site was seen by Streetview in 2011. It was succeeded by Memorial Chapel (there's a photo of this chapel too, on the afore-mentioned source). Whether it was on the same site isn't clear, however there is another place of worship shown on Field Road on mid-20th century maps at SU 4575 7741. If it wasn't the Memorial Chapel, what was it? This has also been demolished, and its site was seen by Streetview in 2011.
Peaslake, Surrey, St. Mark. © Robin Sherlock.
Peasmarsh, East Sussex, St. Peter and St. Paul on Church Lane. TQ 8871 2185. © Bill McKenzie. Two additional views - 1, 2, two interiors - 1, 2, a window, the pulpit and the font, all © Carole Sage (2016). Link1. Link2. Grade I listed. Former chapel (now a private residence). TQ 8880 2279. © Geoff Watt. Janet Gimber advises that this was Wesleyan Methodist. Early O.S. maps show another Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Main Street, at TQ 8917 2247. It had been demolished by the middle of the last century, and its site was seen by Streetview in 2021.
Peathill, Aberdeenshire, Pitsligo Old Kirk. NJ 9339 6623. © Martin Briscoe. Link. Just a few yards to its north-east is the former parish church, Hill Kirk of Rosehearty, seen here by Streetview in 2016. It's dated here to 1890-1997. NJ 9343 6628.
Peatling Magna, Leicestershire, All Saints. © David Regan (2017). Grade I listed.
Peatling Parva, Leicestershire, St. Andrew. Two further views - 1, 2, two interiors - 1, 2, the chancel and font. All © David Regan (2017). Grade I listed.
Peatonstrand, Shropshire, the site of the demolished Primitive Methodist Chapel. It stood where the nearer half of the terrace now stands. A photo of the site after demolition is available here, and there is a link on that page to a photo of the chapel itself. The same link also provides dates of 1873-1985. SO 5373 8480. © Chris Kippin (2020).
Pebworth, Worcestershire, St. Peter. Interior view. SP 1286 4690. Both © Tudorbarlow (Flickr). Three more views - 1, 2, 3, all © Peter Morgan (2022). Link. Grade I listed. There's also a former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, at the corner of Front Street and Chapel Road. It pre-dates a map of 1883. Now in secular use, it was seen by Streetview in 2021. SP 1306 4677.
Pecket Well, West Yorkshire, the former Crimsworth Methodist Church (1834), now a private residence. © David Regan (2011). Grade II listed - link.
Peckham, Greater London.
Pecking Mill, Somerset, the site of the demolished Southwood Wayside Church (CoE), as seen by the Streetview van in 2021. The few maps available to me can only de-limit its building date to between 1931 and 1962. It survived at least into the 1970's. ST 6398 3727.
Peckleton, Leicestershire, St. Mary Magdalene, © David Regan (2016). Link1. Link2. Grade I listing, which curiously has it as St. Martin, "Formerly listed as Church of St. Mary Magdalene".
Pedmore, Stourbridge, West Midlands - see the Stourbridge page.
Pedwell, Somerset, the former Methodist Chapel (originally Wesleyan), on Pedwell Hill. This source dates it to 1828, and says it was still open in 1997, but is now in residential use. ST 4243 3661. © Chris Kippin (2020).
Peebles, Borders.
Peel, Isle of Man.
Peel Hall, Wythenshawe, Manchester, Greater Manchester - see Wythenshawe.
Pelsall, West Midlands, St. Michael and All Angels on Church Road and Hall Lane. Dating from 1844, it was extended in 1889, and the church hall added in 1985. SK 020 030. Link. Methodist Church (1970's) on Chapel Street. The older attached building to the right is a 19th century former school, now used by the church as meeting rooms. SK 022 034. Old maps show a now-vanished Wesleyan Chapel on the other side of the road. Evangelical Church on Old Town Lane. SK 018 034. Link. All © Richard Roberts (2017).
Pelynt, Cornwall, St. Nonna (or Nun). SX 2031 5506. © Paul E. Barnett (2015). Link. Grade I listed. For the listed war memorial, and the numerous listed headstones and tombs, see here. The former Wesleyan Association Chapel (later United Methodist Free) is dated here to 1837. SX 2032 5527. © Paul E. Barnett (2016). The Methodist Church, on Jubilee Hill, built as Wesleyan. SX 2048 5492. © Paul E. Barnett (2017). Link1.
Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, St. Illtyd on Pembrey Square. SN 4286 0121. From an old postcard in Reg Dosell's Collection. Two modern views - 1, 2, both © Jim Parker. A niece of Josephine (consort of Napoleon) is buried here. Link. Grade II* listed. An animal pound attached to the churchyard wall is also listed, as grade II. Bethel Chapel (Calvinistic Methodist) on Gwscwm Road. SN 4295 0126. © Jim Parker. Hermon Wesleyan Chapel (1858) on Waun Deri. SN 4312 0111. © Jim Parker.
Pembridge, Herefordshire, St. Mary the Virgin, has a detached bell-tower. SO 3909 5801. From an old postcard in Steve Bulman's Collection. The following photos are all © James Murray - a modern view, the detached tower, the interior, and the Lady Chapel. Two further interior views - 1, 2, the font, and a tomb, all © Steve Bulman (2011). Link. Grade I listed. Primitive Methodist Chapel (1891). SO 3902 5814. © James Murray. Link. Former Chapel, now a gallery. SO 3912 5813. © James Murray. Janet Gimber advises that it was built as an Independent Chapel, but later became Congregational.
Pembroke, Pembrokeshire.
Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire.
Pembroke Ferry, Pembrokeshire, Trinity Wesleyan Chapel (1880), Methodist and U.R.C. SM 978 046. © Mike Berrell (2009).
Pembury, Kent, St. Peter (the Upper Church). 188 TQ 626 406. Link. St. Peter (Old Church) is at TQ 626 429. Baptist Church. 188 TQ 629 416. All © Geoff Watt.
Pen-Cwm, Pembrokeshire, Ebenezer Baptist Chapel (1768). It has an outdoor baptismal pool. SN 161 400. © Mike Berrell (2009).
Pen Ithon, Powys, Baptist Chapel (1908). SO 088 827. © Mike Berrell.
Pen-llwyn, Ceredigion, Capel Bangor (Welsh Presbyterian). Gerard advises that the bust in front of the chapel is of Lewis Edwards, theologian and educator. It's dated by Coflein to 1790, re-built in 1821 and 1850, and also subsequently modified. SN 6530 8033. © Gerard Charmley.
Penselwood (or Pen Selwood), Somerset, St Michael and All Angels. ST 7562 3143. © Chris Kippin (2021). Link. Grade II* listed.
Pen y Cae-Mawr, Monmouthshire, a ruinous General Baptist Chapel stands a few kilometres away at ST 425 972. Old maps show it as Pen Y Well Chapel. Long derelict, Neil advises that since he took these photos, the tombs in the graveyard have been re-located to a field a little distance away. Apparently there were plans to consolidate and rebuild into a private residence, but after initial works, further efforts stopped. The chapel itself must be quite old as gravestones dated back to the 18th century have been re-located, and a yew tree which stood in the churchyard has been destroyed. Three additional views - 1, 2, 3 and an old monument. All © Neil Floyd.
Pen y Fai, Bridgend, All Saints. Smyrna Baptist Chapel. Both © Gerard Charmley (2011).
Pen-rhiw, Ceredigion, Capel Ffynnon-bedr (1865, re-built 1889, Independent). SN 2272 4991. © Mike Berrell. Coflein.
Pen-y-Bont-Fawr, Powys, St. Thomas (1855, CiW). Interior view. Link1. Link2. Bethania Chapel (1867). All © Peter Morgan (2013).
Pen-y-Bryn, Bridgend, Capel Pen-y-Bryn (Calvinistic Methodist). © Gerard Charmley (2010).
Pen-y-Bryn, Pembrokeshire, Baptist Chapel. Interior view (taken through a window). SN 178 429. Both © Mike Berrell (2009).
Pen-y-Cae, Neath Port Talbot, Saron Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. © Gerard Charmley (2010).
Pen-y-Ffordd, Flintshire, Gwynfa Chapel (Presbyterian Church of Wales, 1805) on Rhewyl Fawr Road. SJ 135 815. The former Peniel Capel Wesleyaidd (Wesleyan Methodist, 1899) on Rhewyl Fawr Road, now in secular use. SJ 135 815. Next door stands the former Peniel Chapel (1921), now also in secular use. Can you advise the denomination? All © Carl Hogan. My appreciation to Janet Gimber, who has advised that both Peniel chapels were Wesleyan Methodist, the larger one succeeding the older. The 1899 chapel then became the church hall, and was probably used as a Sunday School.
Pen-y-Garn, Torfaen,  the Parish Church. Tabernacle Baptist Chapel. Both © Gerard Charmley (2011).
Pen-y-groes, Carmarthenshire.
Pen-y-Groes, Gwynedd.
Pen-y-Stryt, Denbighshire, Piscah Chapel. Coflein calls it Pisca, and dates it to 1817, re-built in 1841. It shows as still active on a map of 1961, but has evidently been closed and converted since then. SJ 1994 5194. © Eirian Evans.
Penally, Pembrokeshire, St. Nicholas and St. Teilo. Interior view. SS 118 992. Former Chapel, now in secular use. SS 117 990. All © Mike Berrell.
Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan.
Penbryn, Ceredigion, St. Michael. Interior view. SN 2936 5211. Both © Mike Berrell. Link. Coflein. Grade I listed. Six churchyard memorials share a grade II listing. About ¾ of a mile to the east is Capel Penmorfa (Calvinistic Methodist). The date-stone has three dates, two unclear, though the earliest date is 1796. Coflein says 1796, 1846 and 1939. Three interior views - 1, 2, 3, and two windows - 1, 2. SN 3048 5218. All © Mike Berrell (2011). Grade II listed.
Penbryn, Gwynedd, the site of the demolished Capel Pencoed (Calvinistic Methodist). SH 4406 4088. © Howard Richter (2013). Link.
Pencader, Carmarthenshire, the former Bethel Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. Coflein dates it to 1908, with closure by 1998. SN 4472 3665. © Gerard Charmley (2011). The former Yr Hen Capel Independent Chapel (now a nursery). SN 4453 3612. © Gerard Charmley (2011). Coflein. Grade II listed, wherein it's dated to 1827, on the site of predecessors of 1780 and 1650. Moriah Baptist Chapel, of 1897 (Coflein). SN 4454 3573. © Gerard Charmley (2011). Tabernacle Independent Chapel. Coflein says it dates from 1909, was still active in 1998, and had a predecessor "some 160m north-north-west". This was Yr Hen Capel. SN 4459 3594. © Gerard Charmley (2011). St. Mary, off Pencader Square. Not visible to Streetview, a photo is available here. Coflein dates it to 1881, and says it was built on the site of the "medieval Capel Mair". SN 4440 3628. Link.
Pencaenewydd, Gwynedd, Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. According to the Coflein entry, it was built in 1807, re-built in 1823, and again in circa 1880. If the latter date is correct, then the date-stone from the previous re-build was retained, as it is still visible (although for 1822). SH 4075 4100. Both © Howard Richter (2013).
Pencelli, Powys, St. Meugan at Llanfeugan (though there is no village of that name). © Tim Hollinghurst. Link.
Penclawdd, Swansea.
Pencoed, Bridgend.
Pencombe, Herefordshire, St. John the Evangelist. SO 6001 5279. © Mark Turbott. Another view, and three of the interior - 1, 2, 3, all © Peter Morgan (2024). Link. Grade II listed - dates it to 1863-5.
Pencoyd, Herefordshire, St. Denys (or Dennis). The interior, and the font. SO 5161 2655. All © Chris Kippin (2023). Link. Grade II* listed. The churchyard cross is listed as grade II.
Pendeen, Cornwall, St. John the Baptist. SW 3826 3422. © Paul E. Barnett (2018). Link. Grade II listed. The former Methodist Chapel, originally Bible Christian. This source dates it to 1840, closing circa 1967. SW 3848 3441. © Paul E. Barnett (2018). The map included in the source already mentioned has an annotation pointing to the location of a Wesleyan Chapel on Leat Road. None of the maps available to me on-line mark the building as a place of worship, but for the sake of completeness, its grid reference will be SW 3835 3447. The building on the site was seen by Streetview in 2010. Can you conform that this was, or stands on the site of, a chapel, or point me to any on-line references to it?
Pendeilo (near LLanteg), Pembrokeshire, the former Zoar Chapel, now a funeral home. © Peter Morgan (2011).
Penderyn, Rhondda Cynon Taff, St. Cynog (CiW). Another view. Link. Soar Methodist Chapel (1860 - the date-stone also mentions 1912). Siloam Baptist Chapel, bult 1823 and re-built 1837. All © Peter Morgan (2011).
Pendine, Carmarthenshire.
Pendlebury, Salford, Greater Manchester.
Pendleton, Lancashire, All Saints (1847). SD 758 395. © Stuart Mackrell.
Pendleton, Salford, Greater Manchester.
Pendock, Worcestershire, The Church of the Redeemer (or Pendock Cross Church). Another view. James advises that it was built in 1899 as a temporary mission church, but is still in use! It has an outdoor font, which, though pretty, is stacked up on bricks. SO 7839 3280. All © James Murray. Link. Pendock Old Church stands about two miles E.N.E. of the village, near the hamlet of Sledge Green, and is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. SO 8170 3370. © James Murray. Link. Old maps show, immediately to the east of the church at SO 8175 3371, Priory (Site of). The site hasn't been visited by the Streetview van. The former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. It has a date plaque for 1824. SO 7867 3259. © Janet Gimber (2019).
Pendomer, Somerset, St. Roch. The interior. ST 5213 1040. Both © Chris Kippin (2021). Link. Grade II* listed.
Pendoylan, Vale of Glamorgan, St. Cadoc. © David and Pat Halliday. Bethania Presbyterian Church (1870). © Gerard Charmley (2011).
Penegoes, Powys, Ebeneser Independent Chapel, identified by Mike Berrell. SH 778 011. © John Bowdler. Coflein entry, which dates it to 1823. Howard Richter has advised of three other churches and chapels which stand/stood nearby. A former Calvinistic Methodist Chapel stands at SH 7755 0095, which the Coflein entry dates to 1840. Now converted to residential use, it can be seen on a 2009 Streetview here. A Wesleyan Methodist Chapel stood near Ebeneser, at SH 7775 0100. Coflein dates it to a re-build of 1906, the original chapel of 1823 having been previously replaced in 1848 and 1872. It finally closed in 1970, and is noted as "disused" in 1998. Streetview shows a residential building on the site; whether this is a completely new building, or incorporates all or part of the chapel is (so far) not known. Ebeneser can also be seen, immediately left of the Wesleyan, behind the car. St. Cadfarc (CiW) stands at SH 770 010. Built in 1884, it was the replacement for a medieval predecessor. Streetview in 2010. Coflein entry. Link.
Penffordd, Pembrokeshire, former Calvinistic Methodist Chapel (1861 and 1913), now a leather workshop. Two interior views - 1, 2. SN 077 223. All © Mike Berrell (2010).
Pengam, Caerphilly, the former Capel y Bont Baptist Chapel (now a private residence) on Commercial Street has dates 1857 and 1865. ST 1551 9730. © Gerard Charmley (2011). The chapel had been re-painted a rather fetching blue by 2022 (Streetview). Ebenezer English Baptist Chapel (1907) on River Terrace. ST 1543 9751. © Gerard Charmley (2011). Link. The chapel has been considerably extended and refurbished as this photo of 1988 (© Bruce Cunningham) shows. A former chapel on Station Road, Glan Y Nant - Janet Gimber advises that this was Nazareth Methodist Chapel. ST 1507 9751. © Gerard Charmley (2011).
Penge, Greater London - see the London page.
Pengegon, Cornwall, Community Hall (1936) on Lower Pengegon was at one time home to Kernow Spiritualist Centre. SW 6584 4009. © Paul E. Barnett (2015). Older O.S. maps also show that there used to be a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in the village, on Pengegon Way at SW 6586 3980. It's dated here (where there is an old photo) to 1870-1979, by which time it was Methodist. Housing - Chapel Court - now stands on its site (2023 Streetview). The source already quoted also says that there had been a predecessor, built before 1841, and may have become the Sunday School shown on old maps at SW 6592 3982. It too has gone, and the house on its site on Higher Pengegon was seen by Streetview in 2023.
Pengenffordd, Powys, Moriah Presbyterian Chapel. Rear view, showing the gallery stairs. Both © Gerard Charmley (2010).
Penhalvean, Cornwall, the former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. This source dates it to 1865, with its closure date unknown; old maps tell us that it was closed in the first half of the 20th century. SW 7103 3777. © Paul E. Barnett (2015).
Penhill, North Yorkshire, the remains of a Templar Preceptory. According to an information board at the site, it dates from circa 1200. The organisation was suppressed in 1307, and by 1312 it was in the hands the Knights Hospitaller. It is recorded as being ruinous by 1338 (see the second link). Two additional views - 1, 2. SE 036 888. All © Howard Richter (2017). Link1. Link2. Grade II listed.
Penhow, Monmouthshire, St. John the Baptist. © Janet Gimber (2015). Another view, © Carole Sage (1992). Link. Baptist Chapel, originally Penhow Mission Hall (1909), as the date-stone explains. Both © Janet Gimber (2015).
Penhurst, East Sussex, St. Michael the Archangel, on Penhurst Lane. Another view, and the porch. TQ 6943 1656. All © Carole Sage (2016). Link1. Link2. Grade I listed.
Penicuik, Midlothian.
Peniel (N.E. of Carmarthen), Carmarthenshire, Peniel Independent Chapel. Coflein dates it to 1864, on the site of earlier chapels of 1847 and 1809. SN 4359 2416. © Gerard Charmley (2011). A little over half a mile to the E.N.E. stands Capel y Groes at SN 4443 2431. Large scale O.S. maps label it as Capel y Groes On Site of Chapel, with Chapel in the script indicating an ancient building. It was seen by Streetview in 2022. Coflein.
Penistone, South Yorkshire.
Penketh, Warrington, Cheshire - see Warrington.
Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire - see Stoke-on-Trent.
Penkridge, Staffordshire, St. Michael & All Angels. From an old postcard (franked perhaps 1911) in Steve Bulman's Collection. A modern view. © Graeme Harvey (2010). Another view. © Chris Emms (2010). Another view, interior, altar and font, all © Dennis Harper (2011). SJ 921 141. Link. Grade I listed - link. Penkridge Methodist Church, on Clay Street. © Graeme Harvey (2010). Interior view, and the font, both © Dennis Harper (2013).
Penlan, Swansea (City), Swansea - see Swansea.
Penley, Wrexham, St. Mary Magdalene. Another view, and an interior view, all © Alan Blacklock (2010). Link.
Penllergaer, Swansea, St. David, on Swansea Road. Another view. Community of Christ Church on Gorseinon Road. All © Jim Parker.
Penllyn, Vale of Glamorgan, St. John the Evangelist. Interior view. Both © Gerard Charmley (2011).
Penmachno, Conwy, St. Tudclud (1857, replacing an earlier building). This source says that it was closed between 1997 and 2009. SH 7899 5059. A 2018 Streetview. Coflein entry, which says that the churchyard once had another church - St. Enclydwyn, but that it fell into ruin long ago, and all above-ground traces have vanished. Grade II listed. Salem Chapel (Calvinistic Methodist, 1853, re-built 1873) stands nearby at SH 7896 5065. A 2009 Streetview. Coflein entry. Howard Richter has advised of a nearby chapel, as follows - Bethania Wesleyan Methodist (1867) stands at SH 7897 5051, and is grade II listed. The Coflein entry says that it closed in 2002. A 2017 Streetview.
Penmaen Rhos, Conwy, Disgwylfa Addoldy yr Eglwys Fethodistraidd (Welsh Wesleyan Methodist, 1901). SH 8791 7843. © Mike Berrell. The Coflein entry has a good number of additional photos. Bethel Congregational Chapel stands just a short distance away, at SH 8782 7836. It can be seen here on a 2009 Streetview. As Howard Richter has pointed out, the Coflein entry for this is suspect. The grid reference is adrift (they give SH 8777 7830) and a date of 1881. There was another chapel nearby, shown on O.S. maps as Presbyterian in 1900 but Congregational by 1913. This has a grid reference of SH 8777 7834. Demolished for road widening by 1957, it stood roughly where the Streetview camera was to take this view in 2009. Howard suspects that this is the 1887 chapel, and which was replaced following its demolition by Bethel.
Penmaen, Caerphilly - see Oakdale on the Caerphilly page.
Penmaen, Swansea, St. John the Baptist. © Gerard Charmley (2011).
Penmaenmawr, Conwy.
Penmark, Vale of Glamorgan, St. Mary. © David and Pat Halliday. Another view, and an interior view, both © Gerard Charmley (2011).
Penmarth, Cornwall, Methodist Church. It was originally Wesleyan. SW 7045 3549. The hall across the road was the Sunday School. SW 7044 3547. Both © Paul E. Barnett (2021). The village used to have a church - Holy Trinity, commonly called Carnmenellis Church. Genuki dates it to 1851, with demolition in 1970 following a fire. A photo is available here, and the churchyard today can be seen here. SW 7024 3568. © Paul E. Barnett (2022).
Penmon, Isle of Anglesey, the Priory. From an old illustration (1930's) in Colin Waters' Collection. A modern view, © Penny Salisbury. This old postcard (from Steve Bulman's Collection) shows an ancient cross. Previously in the Unknown section, it was identified by Janet Gimber. Link.
Penmorfa, Gwynedd, St. Beuno (CiW). Two additional views - 1, 2. SH 541 403. Link. Grade II* listing, from which we learn that it has 14th century nave and 15th century chancel. The former Capel Carizim (Calvinistic Methodist, 1868), now in residential use. Another view. SH 547 406. Link. Capel Zion (Independent, 1868). Another view. SH 5485 4065. Link. All © Howard Richter (2012).
Penmynydd, Flintshire, St. John the Baptist. Penmynydd has absorbed the tiny village of Pentrobin, though the church board still says Pentrobin. © Jane Marriott.
Penn and Penn Fields, Wolverhampton, West Midlands - see Wolverhampton.
Pennal, Gwynedd, St. Peter ad Vincula. Rebuilt in 1769, much of the fabric from its medieval predecessor was re-used. The porch, and two interior views - 1, 2. SH 700 004. All © John Bowdler. Another view, and interior view, both © Rosemary Groves (2011). Link. Coflein entry. Grade II listed. The former Carmel Welsh Independent Chapel (1816, re-built 1871), © John Bowdler. Another view, © Chris Emms (2009). The Coflein entry includes some photos. Grade II listed. Calvinistic Methodist Chapel (1820, re-built 1869, repaired 1908, for sale 2009). © John Bowdler. Another view, © Chris Emms (2009). Coflein entry. Grade II listed. There was also a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. It stands (or stood) at SH 7009 0037. Built in 1809, it was re-built twice, in 1850 and 1899 (according to the Coflein entry).
Pennan, Aberdeenshire, Auchmedden Church, dated here to 1884. Older maps label it as Mission Hall. NJ 8450 6515. © Martin Briscoe.
Pennant, Ceredigion, St. Padarn. SN 5080 6319. © Mike Berrell (2010). Coflein. The church stands to the west of the village. In the village proper is a Calvinistic Methodist Chapel (2023 Streetview), at SN 5128 6310. Coflein dates it to 1760, re-built in 1823 and 1883.
Pennar, Pembrokeshire, St. Patrick (Church in Wales) on Treowen Road. Interior view. Both © Mike Berrell.
Pennerley, Shropshire, the former Mount Zion Primitive Methodist Chapel, dated here to 1869, and going out of use, probably in the late 1990's or early noughties, before conversion to residential use. Another view. SO 3557 9919. Both © Chris Kippin (2021).
Pennington, Cumbria, St. Michael and the Holy Angels. Another view. SD 2628 7742. Both © John Balaam (2016). Grade II listed. A sun-dial in the churchyard is listed separately as grade II.
Pennybridge (properly Egton-cum-Newland), Cumbria, St. Mary. SD 3105 8260. © Mary Read (1988). Link.
Pennygown, Argyll & Bute (Mull), the Old Chapel. 49 NM 604 433. © Martin Briscoe.
Pennywell, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear - see Sunderland.
Penparc, Cerdigion, Capel Pen-y-Parc (Baptist). Its Coflein entry dates it to a re-build in 1856 of a chapel of 1769, re-built in 1838. Total Immersion font. SN 2119 4789. Both © Mike Berrell.
Penparcau, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion - see Aberystwyth.
Penpedairheol, Caerphilly, Cascade Methodist Church, off Pengam Road. ST 1429 9752. © Gerard Charmley (2011). Link.
Penpol (or Penpoll), Cornwall, Methodist Church (1861, Wesleyan). Another view. SW 8134 3908. Both © Carole Sage (2017). Link.
Penponds, Cornwall, a glimpse of Holy Trinity from Streetview in 2023. A number of photos are available on the church website. SW 6350 3953. Grade II listed. The village also has a former Methodist Chapel on Church Road, at SW 6356 3925. It was built as Bible Christian, and dated 1844. © Paul E. Barnett (2024). Link. Grade II listed.
Penpont, Cornwall, the site of a demolished Mission Chapel, as seen by Streetview in 2023. SX 0871 7446.
Penpont, Dumfries & Galloway, Church of Scotland. NX 8487 9447. © Dave Westrap. Category B listed - dates it to 1867. The old graveyard, which is adjacent, also has a B listing. The medieval church was within the graveyard, according to this source, and the graveyard was seen by Streetview in 2023. The 6" O.S. map of 1900 shows a Ch. on Marrburn Road, at NX 8472 9468. Available earlier and later maps don't show it, but assuming it wasn't an error, it's been demolished, and its site (Cameronian Gardens) was seen by Streetview in 2023. A former Free Church survives to the west of the town, at NX 8405 9440. This source advises that it was built as Scaurbridge Reformed Presbyterian Church in or by 1832, and closing as Penpont West CoS in 1942. It also says that it was partly demolished during conversion to residential use. It was seen by Streetview in 2023.
Penrith, Cumbria.
Penrhiwceiber, Rhondda Cynon Taff, St. Winifred (CiW). The former Bethel Wesleyan Chapel (1894), now a builders mercHampshire. Carmel Baptist Chapel (1880). Hope Methodist Church, originally Primitive Methodist (1907). All © Gerard Charmley.
Penrhiwgoch, Carmarthenshire, Baptist Chapel (1909). SN 5569 1785. © Gerard Charmley (2011). Coflein mentions predecessors of 1797 and 1844. These were probably on a different site, as older O.S. maps show a Capel Pen-rhiw-goch some distance further north at SN 5560 1831. It's not clear from aerial views if anything survives of it, and the site hasn't been seen by Streetview. Cefenberach Methodist Church stands at SN 5678 1866. The small date-stone above the central window says that it was re-built in 1871. © Janet Gimber (2018).
Penrhos-garnedd, Gwynedd, Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. Maps suggest a post-1990 date. SH 5610 7063. Coflein entry. Eglwys St. Pedr (1956). SH 554 701. Coflein entry. The former Capel y Graig (1814, re-built in 1872). Janet Gimber has advised that this was Calvinistic Methodist, and has been converted to secular use. SH 5531 7012. Coflein entry. All © Martin Briscoe. There is another former chapel at SH 5597 7051 - Capel Beula (Independent). Originally built in 1836, the present building is of a re-build of 1872. It can be seen on a 2009 Streetview. Coflein entry.
Penrhos-Lligwy, Isle of Anglesey, St. Michael, as seen (distantly) by Streetview in 2021. SH 4805 8592. Link. Coflein has several photos. Grade II* listed.
Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd.
Penrose, Cornwall, the former Bible Christian Chapel, of 1861 (source). SW 8754 7077. © Paul E. Barnett (2019).
Penruddock, Cumbria, All Saints. NY 429 277. © Malcolm Minshaw. Another view, © Steve Bulman (2010). U.R.C. NY 425 274. © Steve Bulman (2010). Howard Richter has drawn my attention to this sale notice, according to which the U.R.C. closed in 2011. At the time it was the third oldest active Presbyterian chapel in England.
Penryn, Cornwall.
Pensarn, Carmarthenshire, Babell Chapel (Calvinistic Methodist), with dates of 1834, 1870, and 1906. SN 4130 1921. © Gerard Charmley (2010). Link. Coflein dates it to 1905, a re-build of a chapel of 1834.
Pensarn, Conwy, St. David (CiW) on South Parade. SH 9481 7859. © Mike Berrell. Chapel (closed) on Towyn Road. SH 9491 7866. Mike thinks it might have been Presbyterian. Judy Flynn, referencing Pevsner, and an old postcard, advises that it was indeed Presbyterian, of the English speaking variety, and dating from 1877-8. It has a grade II listing. Coflein says it was closed "by 2008". © Mike Berrell. Pensarn Family Church (Evangelical Alliance, Presbyterian Church) on Y Berllan. SH 9492 7865. © Mike Berrell. Link. Older O.S. maps mark a Calvinistic Methodist Chapel on Ger-Y-Mor at SH 9479 7871. Its Coflein entry dates it to 1858, closing in 1956. It also says that the chapel was converted for residential use - if this is correct then the housing was later demolished and new housing built on the site (2011 Streetview).
Pensax, Worcestershire, St. James the Great. Interior view. SO 7233 6898. Both © Chris Kippin (2018). Another view, and two more of the interior - 1, 2, all © Peter Morgan (2023). Link. Grade II listed. The stump of a churchyard cross is also listed separately as Grade II.
Pensford, Somerset, St. Thomas-a-Becket. Most unusual in that it stands on an island in a river. The church mostly dates from a re-build of 1869, but the tower is C14. The nave has been converted into a private residence, and the tower is now in the care of the Church Conservation Trust, and occasional services are held here. Another view, the pulpit and the font. ST 61828 63695. The former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Pensford Hill, now residential. ST 61761 63942. Gospel Hall. ST 62136 63491. It was preceded by an earlier Gospel Hall on Staunton Hall, now demolished. All © Carole Sage (2016).
Penshaw, Tyne & Wear, All Saints, © Norman Cummings (2014). Link. Our Lady Queen of Peace (R.C.). © James Murray.
Penshurst, Kent, St. John the Baptist. A close-up of the tower. Some interior views - 1, 2, 3, 4, and the ceiling of the Sidney Chapel. 188 TQ 527 438. All © Dave Westrap. An old postcard view, and an old engraving, from Brett Jeffery's Collection. And another old postcard, this one from John Bowdler's Collection.Link1. Link2. Link3.
Pensilva, Cornwall.
Pensnett, West Midlands.
Penterry, Monmouthshire, St. Mary. Medieval, with a Victorian restoration, there has been a church here since at least 955 A.D. The altar. Without electricity, illumination is provided by oil lamps. All © John Gimber (2017). Link.
Pentewan, Cornwall, All Saints (1821). SX 0203 4724. © Paul E. Barnett (2017). Link. Grade II listed. The former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Pentewan Hill pre-dates a map of 1888. SX 0205 4738. © Paul E. Barnett (2017). The site of a Bible Christian Chapel. A photo of it in 1904 can be seen here. SX 0198 4734. © Paul E. Barnett (2018). The 1888 map shows an earlier B.C. chapel a little way west of the later one, on Glentowan Road at SX 0192 4734. The house on its site was seen by Streetview in 2023.
Pentir, Gwynedd, St. Cedol (1848). SH 573 671. © Martin Briscoe. Coflein entry, which says that it replaced an earlier church nearby. Grade II listed.
Pentlow, Essex, St. George and St. Gregory. TL 8126 4616. © Elizabeth Orbell. Two more views - 1, 2, both © Chris Stafford (2013). Link1. Link2. Grade I listed.
Pentney, Norfolk, the C12 St. Mary Magdalene on Narborough Road. Interior view. TF 7208 1385. Both © Richard Roberts (2015). Another view, two more of the interior - 1, 2 (the latter with the font), a window, and Norman blind arcading, all © Chris Stafford (2014). Link. Grade I listed. A little over half a mile east of the church is a former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, at TF 7311 1385. Identified on its Genuki entry as "Rehoboth" and dated to 1851 and "closed before 1992", it can be seen on a Streetview from 2009, having been converted to residential use. A little further east again, maps show the site of a Baptist Chapel, at ST 7345 1389. Again, Genuki is helpful, dating it to 1828 to "before 2009", and naming it as Zion Particular Baptist.
Penton Mewsey, Hampshire, Holy Trinity. Another view, and the interior. SU 3297 4742. All © Chris Kippin (2020). Link. Grade II* listed (note that the grid reference quoted there is inaccurate). Some of the churchyard monuments are separately listed here.
Pentonville, Greater Lodonn.
Pentraeth, Anglesey, St. Mary. SH 5237 7844. © Bill McKenzie. Link. Coflein. Grade II listed. For related listed features, see here. A large scale map of 1919 shows two chapels. Capel Ebenezer Independent Chapel (2021 Streetview) at SH 5230 7840. Coflein. dates it to 1903, with three predecessors. The Calvinistic Methodist Capel Nazareth on Chapel Street at SH 5222 7873. Coflein dates it to a re-build in 1860 of a chapel of 1829, closing in 1998, whereafter it "fell into disuse". I think it's this building seen in a Streetview from 2021. Coflein also has an entry for an earlier predecessor on a different site, at SH 5216 7841, dating it to 1855, again with predecessors, and it says it was converted to residential use in 1998. It was seen by Streetview in 2021. Another chapel a little way north of Nazareth appears on a map of 1919, which was revised no later than 1915. Labelled as Capel Moriah (Baptist), its brief Coflein entry dates it to 1902. 2024 Streetview. SH 5222 7898.
Pentre, Denbighshire, the Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. Coflein dates it to 1892, a re-build of earlier chapels of 1809 and 1869. SJ 0865 6262. © Gervase N. E. Charmley (2011).
Pentre Saron, Denbighshire, Calvinist Methodist Chapel, dating from 1826, though according to Coflein, probably re-built circa 1850. SJ 0283 6066. © Eirian Evans.
Pentre, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
Pentre-bach, Ceredigion, the former Capel Emmaus (1854), now in secular use. Coflein, which dates it to 1894, describes it as Emmaus Independent Chapel Schoolroom, and says it was converted to residential use "by 1998". SN 5470 4730. © Mike Berrell. The former St. John (CiW) at SN 5510 4725. Some more photos can be seen here. It pre-dates a map of 1888. © Neil Floyd. The scant Coflein entry.
Pentre-Cwyth, Swansea (City), Swansea - see Swansea.
Pentre-Dwr, Swansea (City), Swansea - see Swansea.
Pentre-Halkyn, Flintshire, Salem Methodist Chapel, built as Wesleyan in 1896. © Carl Hogan (2014). Link.
Pentre Isaf, Conwy, Capel Cefn-Coch (Calvinistic Methodist) can be seen in a 2009 Streetview here. The Coflein entry dates it to a mid 19th century re-build of an earlier chapel of 1796, although curiously, its grade II listing (which includes some photographs) says it is "little altered since its erection in 1796". The former Capel Ainon (Baptist) stands about 3/4 of a mile NE of Pentre, at SH 8825 6977, and is now in residential use. Seen on a 2009 Streetview here and here, the Coflein entry gives it dates of 1862-1986. Lastly, about a mile NW of Pentre is the very isolated Codau Baptist Chapel, at SH 8637 7074. The Coflein entry dates it to 1832, with closure in the 1980's. It says that it "stood disused in the 1990's", but the presence of tools and ladders in the 2009 Streetview suggests it may have been undergoing conversion at that time.
Pentre-Tafarn-y-Fedw, COnwy, the former Carmel Calvinistic Methodist/Presbyterian Chapel, which stands in isolation some distance north-east of the settlement at SH 8242 6297. The link is to a 2009 Streetview. SH 8242 6297. The Coflein entry provides a date of 1833.
Pentre Uchaf, Gwynedd, the former Pentre Uchaf Methodist Chapel (1896). The appended link says that it was still active in 2010, but was undergoing conversion for residential use in 2012. As Howard's photos show, the work was still incomplete in 2016. Two additional views - 1, 2. SH 3560 3903. © Howard Richter (2016). Link.
Pentrebach, Merthyr Tydfil, Jerusalem Baptist Church. © Gerard Charmley (2011).
Pentrefelin, Gwynedd, the Parish Hall, which was originally built as a church, sited to be more convenient for the villagers, as the parish church (St. Cynhaearn) was some distance away. Dating from the 1930's, it was designed by Clough Williams-Ellis, most famous as the designer of Portmeirion, the setting for the cult TV series, The Prisoner. Another view, and the interior. SH 528 398. Link. An old postcard view is available here, and an old photo here. Grade II listed. The old church, St. Cynhaearn (K), is now in the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches; some services are still held here. Some of the fabric in the nave is supposed to be of the 12th century, with the transepts added in the 15th and 16th centuries. Another view. SH 526 388. Link. Grade II* listed. The site of the demolished Capel Tabor (Congregational). The gateway to the site appears to be original. SH 5226 3997. Link. Flickr has some old photos - 1, 2, 3. All © Howard Richter (2012). The former Capel Cedron (1867, Calvinistic Methodist), now in residential use. Another view. SH 5249 3964. Both © Howard Richter (2016). Link.
Pentrefelin, Powys, Salem Chapel (1845, renovated 1926). © Peter Morgan (2013).
Pentrefoelas, Conwy, the Parish Church (dedication lost). SH 873 516. Standing in relative isolation on the west side of the B5113, about a mile and a half north-west of the village is the former Capel Pisgah (1878), now in secular use. It was active at least until 1953. SH 8573 5300. Coflein entry. Both © Mike Berrell.
Pentregat, Ceredigion, Capel Ffynnon, now in use as a guest house. Coflein, which dates it to 1849, says it had been converted "by circa 1990". SN 3538 5195. © Mike Berrell. Grade II listed, wherein it's described as Calvinistic Methodist. A little further east is marked, on old O.S. maps, Capel Gwndwn (Baptist), at SN 3544 5196. Its Coflein entry dates it to 1910, originally built in 1830, and possibly also re-built in 1844. Demolished on or before 1998. The house on its site today was seen by Streetview in 2017.
Pentre'r Bryn, Ceredigion, Pentre'r Bryn Independent Chapel (1894). Coflein also calls it Brynrhwgaled Independent Chapel and Schoolroom, dating it to 1894 as a re-build of an earlier chapel of 1781. SN 3989 5509. © Mike Berrell (2011).
Pentrich, St. Matthew. From an old postcard in Steve Bulman's Collection. Two modern views - 1, 2, two interiors - 1, 2, the altar and the font, all © David Regan (2015). Link1. Link2. Grade I listed. The site (the red-brick building behind the telegraph pole) of the demolished Congregational Chapel, as seen by Streetview in 2019. Old photos of it are available here and here (wherein it's dated to circa 1662 - 1971, and says it was latterly United Free Methodist). In the latter can be seen the surviving gable-end of a building to the chapel's left (its name Chapel Down can be seen on the Streetview) - note the small wooden doorway now replaced by a window in the modern Streetview. SK 3889 5223.
Pentridge, Dorset, St. Rumbold, and its interior. SU 0332 1783. Both © Chris Kippin (2022). Link. Grade II listed. A group of monuments in the churchyard is also listed as grade II.
Pentrobin, Flintshire, - see Penmynydd.
Pentyrch, Cardiff.
Penweathers, Cornwall, the former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, which pre-dates a map of 1880. SW 8041 4384. © Paul E. Barnett (2017).
Penwithick, Cornwall, the former Methodist Chapel, built as Wesleyan. Of available on-line maps, one from 1961 is the first to show this chapel, although it's clearly older than this. Indeed, this source (select option 3) dates it to 1914, with an earlier chapel originally standing on an adjacent site. SX 0241 5632. © Paul E. Barnett (2017).
Penwortham, Lancashire.
Penybontfawr, Powys, Pen-Nebo Wesleyan Chapel (1890 - date-stone). Both © Peter Morgan (2014).
Penybryn, Caerphilly, Calvary Evangelical Church. © Gerard Charmley (2011).
Penycwm, Pembrokeshire, former chapel, now in secular use. SN 850 230. © Mike Berrell (2012).
Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil, St. John (CiW, closed). Horeb Independent Chapel. Both © Gerard Charmley.
Penygarnedd, Powys, Carmel Wesleyan Chapel (1884 - date-stone). Both © Peter Morgan (2014).
Penygraig, Rhondda Cynon Taff, St. Barnabas. The chancel arch in the end wall shows that a chancel was planned, but never built. Another view. Many churches in Rhondda were founded as Iron Churches, but most were demolished when a stone church was built. Here it survives, though in a sorry state. The former Pisgah Calvinistic Methodist Church, now a funeral chapel. The former Soar Baptist Chapel. All © Gervase N. E. Charmley.
Penygroes, Pembrokeshire, Capel Penygroes Ty Cwrdd yr Annibynwyr (Independent, 1765, re-built 1828). SN 155 355. © Mike Berrell (2009).
Penzance, Cornwall.
Peopleton, Worcestershire, St. Nicholas. Another view, two interior views - 1, 2, and a window. All © Peter Morgan (2012). Link. Grade II* listed - link.
Peplow, Shropshire, Chapel of the Epiphany (1877-9). Two further views - 1, 2. SJ 637 248. All © Martin Richter (2018). Link. Grade II listed.
Pepperstock, Bedfordshire, the former Baptist Church on Front Street. It was evidently subsequently demolished, as housing was built on the site, seen by Streetview (compare 2016 and 2017). SP 0851 1810. © Bedfordshire and Luton Archives & Records Service (2007). Link.
Percy Main, Tyne & Wear, St. John the Evangelist (1862), on St. John's Terrace. NZ 338 671. © Bill Henderson (2012). Grade II listed - link.
Perivale, Greater London - see the London page.
Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, St. John the Evangelist. SK 645 709. © Michael Bourne. Another view. From a postcard in the Kevin Gordon Collection. Link.
Perranarworthal, Cornwall, St. Piran. A small un-inscribed cross which stands close to the church - is it ancient or recent? SW 7792 3893. © Paul E. Barnett (2015 and 2023). Link. Grade II* listed. For related listed features see here. On the nearby Carclew Estate is a small former Chapel, at SW 7893 3825. A photo can be seen here on an estate agency sale notice. Grade II* listed.
Perranporth, Cornwall, the remains of St. Piran. In use until the early 19th century, encroaching sand made the church increasingly unusable, and the decision was made to dismantle the church and re-locate it further inland, at Lambourne, Perranzabuloe. Much of the fabric was removed and used in the new building. Two further views - 1, 2, and an ancient cross (11th century or earlier). SW 7720 5646. Link. Grade II listed, as is also the cross. The site of St. Piran's oratory lies nearby. SW 7685 5637. All © Josie Saunders (2010). Link. Grade II listed. Christ the King (R.C., 1931) on Wheal Leisure Road. SW 7589 5422. © Paul E. Barnett (2014). Link. Methodist Church (built as Wesleyan) on Ponsmere Road. SW 7581 5436. © Paul E. Barnett (2014). Link. The tidal island Chapel Rock, also known as Chapel Engarder, is reputedly the site of a chapel, which this source says was still visible in 1733. SW 7549 5462. © Paul E. Barnett (2021). St. Michael's Mission Church on Perrancombe Road, as seen by Streetview in 2018. SW 7561 5391. Link, which says that the church is (in 2024) closed for repairs, services being held in the adjacent church hall (2021 Streetview). SW 7562 5394.
Perranuthnoe, Cornwall, St. Michael and St. Piran. SW 5375 2955. © Carole Sarvis. Two more views - 1, 2, both © Paul E. Barnett (2024). Link. Grade II* listed. A number of churchyard monuments, etc., are separately listed here. The former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel dates from 1858. Another view. SW 5389 2943. Both © Paul E. Barnett (2015 and 2024).
Perranwell (near Perranarworthal), Cornwall, Methodist Church on Station Road, originally Wesleyan. Another view. SW 7762 3947. © Paul E. Barnett (2014 and 2024). Old O.S. maps show a Bible Christian Chapel off School Hill at SW 7750 3928. It hasn't survived, and the site where it stood (where the building is behind the blue car) was seen by Streetview in 2022. This source dates it to 1865, closing in the late 1960's. It also says that it was later known as Chyvogue Methodist Church.
Perranwell (near Perranzabuloe), Cornwall, the former Methodist Church and Sunday School. Dates are 1843 (chapel, visible in the roundel in the nearer part of the building), and 1867 (school). SW 7770 5274. © Paul E. Barnett (2015). Link.
Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, St. Piran. Paul advises that the original St. Piran was on Piran Sands at Perranporth (q.v.), but shifting sands made it unusable. A second church suffered the same fate. The new church incorporates some of the re-located fabric of the second. SW 7705 5204. © Paul E. Barnett (2015). Link. Grade II* listed. For related listed features see here.
Perry Barr, West Midlands, St. John. © Peter Wood.
Pershore, Worcestershire.
Pertenhall, Bedfordshire, St. Peter. TL 0842 6541. From an old postcard in Judy Flynn's Collection. Grade I listed. Older O.S. maps mark a Moravian Church at Chapel Yard, a little way to the north-east of Pertenhall, at TL 0908 6600. The village Wikipedia entry says that "Little remains of the chapel itself but there are still gravestones in the graveyard". I haven't been able to find a photo of it, and Streetview hasn't been past the site.
Perth, Perth & Kinross.
Perton, Staffordshire, The Church at Perton. Interior view and font. All © Dennis Harper (2011). Link.
Peter Tavy, Devon, St. Peter. The interior and the former screen. SX 5131 7777. All © Chris Kippin (2022). Link. Grade I listed. Several items in the churchyard are listed separately - they can be found here. The Methodist Church is labelled on older maps as Wesleyan - it pre-dates one of 1884. SX 5147 7761. © Chris Kippin (2022). Link.
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
Peterchurch, Herefordshire, St. Peter. Another view. SO 3449 3852. Both © Graeme Harvey. Another view, the interior, and the font, all © Christopher Skottowe (1963). Link. Grade I listed. The former Methodist Chapel (originally Wesleyan) now a private residence. SO 3436 3905. © James Murray. The demolished Particular Baptist Chapel. This is probably the building referenced in council minutes of 2004, discussing its proposed demolition, here. Another view. SO 3440 3898. Both © Paul Wood. Both the Baptist and Methodist chapels pre-date a map of 1904.
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
Peterlee, County Durham.
Petersfield, Hampshore, St. Peter. SU 7464 2319. © Chris Kippin. The interior and the font, both © Chris Kippin (2023). Link. Grade I listed. St. Laurence (R.C.) on Station Road, as seen by Streetview in 2021. SU 7451 2360. Link. Grade II listed, wherein it's dated to 1890-1. Almost directly across the road is Petersfield Methodist Church (2021 Streetview), originally Wesleyan. SU 7451 2355. Link. A little further east on Station Road stands a former Primitive Methodist Chapel (2022 Streetview). It has a date-stone for 1902. SU 7463 2358. Link. The Salvation Army Church on  Swan Street was seen by Streetview in 2019. SU 7452 2331. A map of 1909 marks a different building just a short distance to the west as Salvation Army Barracks. Its site lies beneath the roadway seen on a Streetview from 2019. SU 7446 2333. U.R.C. (2022 Streetview) on College Street. Old maps label it as Congregational. SU 7492 2360. Link. The cemetery at Ram's Hill has two Mortuary Chapels - Church of England (grade II listed, circa 1857) at SU 7493 2390, and Nonconformist (also grade II listed, circa 1857) at SU 7496 2394. The 1958 1" O.S. map shows a place of worship on the south side of Barham Road at SU 7474 2344. Seen by Streetview in 2019, I haven't been able to discover what it was.
Peterston-Super-Ely, Vale of Glamorgan, St. Peter. Interior view. Both © Gerard Charmley.
Peterston Super Montem, Rhondda Cynon Taff, the ruined and remote church of St. Peter (also see Brynna). Originally dating from C12, it was re-built in the 17th century, and abandoned in the 19th. Two further views - 1, 2. All © Gervase N. E. Charmley.
Peterstone Wentlooge, Newport, the former St. Peter, now a private residence. © Gerard Charmley.
Peterstow, Herefordshire, St. Peter. Interior view. Both © Peter Morgan. Link.
Petham, Kent, All Saints. TR 130 512. Derelict Primitive Methodist Chapel, dating from 1863. Both © Geoff Watt. Two further views - 1, 2, both dating from the 1980's, which presumably post-date Geoff's photo. Both © Alan K. Taylor (1980's).
Petherwin Gate, Cornwall, the former Methodist Chapel, as seen by Streetview in 2009. It was originally Wesleyan, pre-dating a map of 1884. SX 2812 8915. A few hundred yards east of the village is the hamlet of Daws, where there is a former Methodist Chapel. Shown on a map of 1884 as Ebenezer Bible Christian Chapel, it was seen by Streetview in 2021. SX 2870 8927. Both chapels remained in active use into the second half of the last century.
Petrockstowe, Devon, St. Petroc(k). Another view, and the interior. SS 5132 0916. All © Chris Kippin (2021). Grade II* listed. Some headstones and a war memorial are listed separately here. As of 2024, Google Streetmaps is labelling the church as permanently closed", and the link is to Petrockstowe Community Church, which was the Methodist Church. The Methodist Church on Rectory Rise has a date-stone for 1933. SS 5128 0944. © Chris Kippin (2021). As already mentioned, this has since become Petrockstowe Community Church (a Methodist and Anglican L.E.P.). Link. A little way south of the village stands or stood a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, at SS 5128 0886. Whether anything of the chapel survives in the building on the site today is unclear. © Chris Kippin (2021).
Pett, East Sussex, St. Mary and St. Peter (1864). TQ 8729 1391. From an old postcard, in Reg Dosell's Collection. A modern view, © Carole Sage (2016). Link1. Link2. Methodist Church (1848). It's labelled on older maps as Mount Calvary Chapel (Bible Christian). Two further views - 1, 2. TQ 8699 1394. All © Carole Sage (2016). Link. Grade II listed.
Pettigo, Co. Donegal, Catholic Church. Templecarne Parish Church (CoI). Both © Graeme Harvey.
Pettistree, Suffolk, St. Peter and St. Paul. TM 2985 5497. © Steve Bulman (2024). Link. Grade II* listed. The war memorial is also listed, as grade II.
Petton, Devon, St. Petrock. Its grade II listing dates it to a re-build of a medieval chapel in 1848. ST 0076 2445. © Chris Kippin (2023). Link. The churchyard gate is also listed, as grade II. The Methodist Church has a date-stone, declaring itself to have originally been Bible Christian, of 1901. ST 0077 2475. © Chris Kippin (2023). Link. The 1:25,000 O.S. map of 1951 shows a place of worship just east of Petton Cross, at ST 0059 2474. The shed, which may have been the church, was visible on a Streetview from 2009. Later Streetviews show only the roofline. I haven't been able to discover what this was, though it is reminiscent of several Gospel Halls on this website. Can you advise?
Petworth, West Sussex.
Pevensey, East Sussex, St. Nicolas. TQ 6469 0484. From an old postcard in Steve Bulman's Collection. Another old postcard view, this one from Reg Dosell's Collection. A modern view, © Stuart Mackrell. Link1. Link2. Grade I listed.
Peverell, Plymouth, Devon - see Plymouth.
Pewsey, Wiltshire, St. John the Baptist. Two more views - 1, 2. SU 1637 5990. All © Chris Kippin (2022). Interior view, © Simon Edwards (2011). Link. Grade I listed. Several churchyard monuments and the war memorial are listed separately here. The Methodist Church stands at the junction of Market Place and Goddard Road. Older maps label it as Wesleyan, and it has a date of 1873 in the archway around the entrance door. Streetview saw it in 2009. SU 1637 6012. Link. Holy Family (R.C.) on Broadfields. SU 1591 5990. © Chris Kippin (2022). Link. Mortuary Chapel in the cemetery on Wilcot Road. SU 1562 6023. © Ian Miller. Grade II listed, wherein it's dated to 1862. The Chapel for the Pewsey Union Workhouse survives, on Wilcot Road, at SU 1574 6025. Its grade II listing dates it to circa 1840-1850. It was seen by Streetview in 2021. Link. A map of 1887 shows a Particular Baptist Chapel off High Street at SU 1650 6010. It seems to have survived at least into the mid-20th century, and what I think is the building (or replacement with the same footprint) was seen by Streetview in 2011. The same map also shows a Baptist Chapel (General) on Easterton Lane at SU 1672 6006. Called Zion on a later map of 1902, aerial views suggest it may survive, but it hasn't been seen by Streetview. A Church Mission Room stands on Easterton Lane at SU 1680 5985. The 1887 map labels it as Primitive Methodist - it was seen by Streetview in 2011. This source dates it to 1879.

Philadelphia, Co. Durham, the Spiritualist Church on Philadelphia Lane. Old maps show it to have originally been Methodist New Connexion. NZ 3336 5222. © Bill Henderson. Two other places of worship show on a map of 1896. St. John's Mission Hall on Raglan Row at NZ 3327 5240, and a Wesleyan Methodist on land north of Wellington Row at NZ 3340 5246. This source references documents pertaining to the Wesleyan for the years 1919-46. Neither building has survived. 2024 Streetviews show both sites - the Mission Hall, and Wesleyan (somewhere among the recently built foundations to the left of the digger).
Philipstoun, West Lothian, the former Philipstoun Main Street Pardovan Church, on Main Street. It's now in use as a provate residence. © Jim Parker (2016). Link.
Phillack, Cornwall, St. Phillack (or St. Felicitas). The ACNY entry has it as St. Felicitas and St. Piala. SW 5653 3842. © Andrew Ross. Another view, © Paul E. Barnett (2014). Link. Grade II* listed. For other related listed features see here.
Philleigh, Cornwall, St. Philleigh. SW 8711 3946. Link. Grade I listed (where it's listed as St. Felix). Three churchyard tombs are also listed here. The former Lemon Chapel (Wesleyan, 1838), which was sold in 1882. It was subsequently converted to residential use, and is now Lemon Chapel Cottage. SW 8684 3939. The former White Lanes Chapel (Wesleyan). Opened in 1883, and hence successor to Lemon Chapel, it closed in 1981. SW 8768 3915. All © Jo Lewis. Link (for both chapels).

Pickering, North Yorkshire.
Pickhill, North Yorkshire, All Saints. SE 3472 8375. © Bill Henderson. Interior view, and the splendid Norman south door, both © Kenneth Paver (2013). Another view, another of the interior, a window and the font, all © Chris Stafford (2015). Grade II* listed. The village also has a former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, at SE 3460 8342. It was seen by Streetview in 2011. The village Wikipedia entry dates it to 1864.
Pickletillem, Fife, the former Forgan Parish Church (CoS), now in commercial use. It lies between Newport-on-Tay and Pickletillem on the A914. Another view. Lady Leng Memorial Chapel lies within Vicarsford Cemetery. NO 438 257. The ruins of St. Fillan (aka Forgan Old Parish Church). Two further views - 1, 2. NO 445 259. Link. All © Jim Parker (2010).
Pickmere, Cheshire, the Pickmere and Wincham Methodist Church. It has a date-stone for 1826, as Wesleyan, with an enlargement in 1928. SJ 6947 7721. © Bruce Read. Link.
Pickworth, Lincolnshire, St. Andrew on Church Lane. Two interior views - 1, 2. TF 044 337. All © Mike Berrell (2012). Link. Grade I listed - link.
Pickworth, Rutland, All Saints (1822). A battle during the Wars of the Roses was fought hereabouts - see here. Interior view, and the font. An arch from an earlier church stands in the village - a photo is available on its grade II listing. All © David Regan (2016). Grade II listed. The former chapel, now in residential use. SK 993 138. © Mike Berrell (2011).
Picton, North Yorkshire, the former St. Hilary. Another view. David advises that the building was sold in 2008, and still appears empty. Both © David Regan (2011).
Pickwell, Leicestershire, All Saints. Interior view. Both © Jim Rushton. Another view, and an interior view, both © Aidan McRae Thomson.
Piddinghoe, East Sussex, St. John the Evangelist. TQ 4351. From an old postcard in Paul E. Barnett's Collection. A 2011 Streetview provides a modern view. Link1. Link2. Grade I listed.
Piddington, Oxfordshire, St. Nicholas. There is an improbably thin door, visible in the previous photo, with a close-up here. The door is about as wide as ones shoulders. SP 6400 1698. Both © Steve Bulman. Another view, © David Regan (2019). Link. Grade II* listed.
Piddlehinton, Dorset, St. Mary the Virgin. SY 7157 9716. © Graeme Harvey. Another view, and an interior view. Another favourite church of Roger (and Thomas Hardy!). Both © Roger Hopkins. Link. Grade I listed. A table tomb is also listed as grade II.
Piddletrenthide, Dorset, All Saints. ST 7021 0073. © Graeme Harvey. Link. Grade I listed. At the southern end of the village is a former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (2023 Streetview). It shows on the earliest available on-line map of 1887. By 1902 a new chapel had been built adjacent with the old chapel labelled as a Sunday School. In a 2023 Streetview, the old chapel is at left, and the site of the second one to its right. This source dates the first chapel to 1856, the second to 1894, closing in 1989. ST 7078 9940.
Pidley, Cambridgeshire, All Saints. Another view. TL 3272 7829. © Jim Rushton. Link. Grade II listed. A small Baptist Church (2022 Streetview) stands just to the south of the church, at TL 3274 7822. Link. Grade II listed.
Piercebridge, Co. Durham, St. Mary. It pre-dates a map of 1857. NZ 2104 1576. © Steve Bulman. Link. Grade II listed. The churchyard walls, etc., are also grade II listed. There's also a former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel a little way S.W. of St. Mary, at NZ 2093 1571. It pre-dates a map of 1857. Evidently now residential, it was seen by Streetview in 2009. O.S. maps show Chapel (Site of) at NZ 2104 1563. It stood somewhere behind the house seen centrally in a 2023 Streetview. It must have been partially excavated, as its grade II* listing mentions it as Medieval Chapel Ruins on Roman Foundations - there is also a photo.
Pightley, Somerset, the former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and Sunday School, now in residential use. Both © Mike Berrell (2016).
Pilham, Lincolnshire, All Saints. Two further views - 1, 2, and an interior view. All © David Regan (2010). Link.
Pill, Somerset, Christ Church. © Peter Morgan (2009). Link. The Methodist Church replaced an earlier Wesleyan chapel on the same site. ST 52592 75815. © Peter Morgan (2009). Link. Baptist Church. ST 52467 76000. © Peter Morgan (2009). This had closed by the time this photo was taken, © Carole Sage (2016). Another view, © Carole Sage (2018). Link. Salvation Army Church. ST 5256 7573. © Carole Sage (2016). The site of the demolished Independent Chapel (later Congregational) on Chapel Row, now a parking area. Established in 1747, it's not known at present if this was always the site of the church, but it is marked on maps here from the late 19th century. The congregation joined with the Baptist Church in 1905, to form Pill Union Church, but whether it continued in use after this, and when it was demolished, are not at present known. ST 52482 75966. © Carole Sage (2018). A marker commemorates the spot from where John Wesley despatched Methodist Missionary Preachers to America. The attached plaque. The 2 people it mentions are Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke. Both © Carole Sage (2018).
Pillaton, Cornwall, St. Odulphus. SX 3670 6431. © Paul E. Barnett (2018). Link. Grade I listed. Other related listed features can be seen here. A converted former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (2022 Streetview) stands at SX 3652 6424. In its original smaller form it pre-dates a map of 1888.
Pillerton Hersey, Warwickshire, dedicated to St. Mary. © Steve Bulman. SP 299 489. Another view, and an interior view, both © Aidan McRae Thomson.
Pillerton Priors, Warwickshire, the former Methodist Chapel (1863), now in use as a domestic garage. Another view. Both © John Bowdler (2012).
Pilleth, Powys, St. Mary (CiW). Interior view. SO 256 822. Both © Ken Taylor. Two further views - 1, 2, and the Holy Well, all © John Bowdler. Link1. Link2.
Pilley, Hampshire, St. Nicholas Chapel (1964) on Pilley Street. SZ 329 982. © Richard Roberts (2018). Link.
Pilley, South Yorkshire, St. Paul on Pilley Green was originally a Mission Church of circa 1880-90. Another view. SE 3363 0045. Link. The Methodist Church on Chapel Road and Pilley Lane is marked on older maps as Wesleyan. The village Wikipedia entry dates it to 1886. SE 3345 0066. Link. All © David Regan (2021).
Pilning and Redwick, Gloucestershire, St. Peter, founded in 1855. Note that a former name for Pilning was Cross Hands, and shows as such on old maps. ST 55766 85065. © Phil Draper. Link. Grade II listing, which mentions that the Norman font is believed to have come from the demolished St. Thomas at Northwick. The former Trinity Methodist Church. ST 55496 85136. © Phil Draper. Another view, © Carole Sage (2018), who explains that there are references to this having been built in 1903. This may be correct, but a Wesleyan Chapel was certainly present with the same footprint on the same site as early as a map of 1881. It closed as a church in 1973, when the congregation merged with St. Peter's Anglican Church, forming an ecumenical partnership. The old church was then used as a church hall, called Trinity Hall. The church and associated buildings were put up for sale in 2011, and the estate agent's notice includes interior photos. The church was subsequently converted for residential use. A Mission Hall was built in 1881 on Redwick Road, Pilling. 1960's maps still show it as a Mission Hall, but by 1972 it had become the village hall. Now used by the local Scouts, it has been re-named Mafeking Hall. Another view. ST 55413 85173. Both © Carole Sage (2018). St. Mary's Indian Orthodox Church on Bank Road is a former primary school. The church took over the building in 2013, though they must have met elsewhere before this, as the Bristol parish dates from 2002. Another view. ST 56186 84884. Both © Carole Sage (2018). Link. The former Zion Methodist Chapel was built as United Methodist, opening in 1879. It closed no later than 1967. Another view. ST 54934 85920. Both © Carole Sage (2018).
Pilrig, City of Edinburgh - see City of Edinburgh.
Pilsdon, St. Mary. SY 4147 9955. © June Norris. Link. Grade I listed.
Pilsley, Derbyshire, St. Mary. Another view. SK 4238 6223. Both © David Regan (2021). Link. An Evangelical Methodist Church on Bridge Street was originally Primitive Methodist. Link dates the P.M. to 1877 - the porch is evidently more recent. SK 4237 6239. © David Regan (2021). Link dates the P.M. to 1877. The former Wesley Methodist Church (1900) on Church Road, which was the former Sunday School for the adjacent demolished Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. The original chapel stood on the area of grass at the left in a Streetview of 2009, and is dated here to an 1868 re-build of an 1843 chapel. Note the headstones in the background. SK 4248 6220. © David Regan (2021). Pilsley Community Church (founded in 2021) meets in the village hall (2023 Streetview) on Pear Tree Road. SK 4225 6251. Link. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses (2023 Streetview) on Rupert Street and Green Lane, Lower Pilsley. SK 4200 6321. Directly across Green Lane is the site of a Methodist Chapel, labelled on a map of 1884 as New Connexion. Later United Methodist, it's dated here to 1869-1971. Since demolished, it's site is now the garden of the adjacent house (2023 Streetview) SK 4202 6319.
Pilton, Northamptonshire, All Saints. © Robin Peel.
Pilton, Rutland, St. Nicholas. SK 9147 0293. © Marion Hall. Another view, © David Regan (2019). Link. Grade II* listed.
Pilton, Somerset, St. John the Baptist. Another view, and the Norman doorway. Link. The former United Methodist Church (built as Ebenezer Chapel, Bible Christian, 1839), now used as holiday letting. All © Josie Saunders.
Pimlico, Greater London - see the London page.
Pimperne, Dorset, St. Peter. ST 9037 0941. © Chris Kippin (2019). Link. Grade II* listed. The village also has a former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, on Chapel Lane. The building seems to be present on a map of 1887, but it isn't labelled. It is labelled on the next map of 1901. This source says that the chapel, which was thatched, burnt down in the 1920's and was subsequently re-built. Sold in 1972, it was seen by Streetview in 2009. ST 9044 0894.
Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, St. Mary on Church Street. TF 242 256. © Dave Hitchborne. Two further views - 1, 2, and an interior view, all © Alan Blacklock (2010). Another interior, and the list of vicars, which commences in 1176, both © Mike Berrell (2015). Baptist Church (1895 - date-stone) on Knight Street. TF 2371 2595. Both © Mike Berrell (2015). Link.
Pinhoe, Exeter, Devon - see Exeter.
Pinner, Greater London.
Pinvin, Worcestershire, St. Nicholas. Another view. Both © Rosemary Groves (2010).
Pinxton, Derbyshire, St. Helen. Another view, and an interior view. SK 4535 5502. All © Alan Craxford. Link. Grade II listed. The churchyard war memorial is also listed, as grade II. The town Wikipedia entry says that the church was near derelict at the end of the 19th century, and a Mission Room was used instead - this will probably be the Mission Room which shows on maps of the time at SK 4590 5545, set back from Church Lane (now Church Street East). It stood here, or close to it, as seen in a Streetview of 2019. The Town Street Methodist Church is a former Free United Methodist Chapel of 1861. SK 4590 5553. © David Regan (2021). Old maps mark a Primitive Methodist Chapel on Slade Lane at SK 4576 5539. It's dated here to circa 1893 - circa 1966. The bungalows built on the site can be seen here in a Streetview of 2019. Another old Methodist Chapel stood on Alexander Terrace at Pinxton Wharf. Its site, seen here on a Streetview of 2015, can be compared with old photos of the chapel here and here, where it labelled as Wharfe Chapel - note the surviving building beyond it. The 25" O.S. map of 1892-1914 labels it as Free United, and this source dates it to 1876. SK 4539 5450.
Pipe and Lyde (or Pipe cum Lyde), Herefordshire, St. Peter. Another view. SO 5028 4409. Both © Chris Kippin. Another view, © Peter Morgan (2024). Link1. Link2. Grade II* listed. See here for related listed features.
Pipe Aston (just Aston on O.S. maps), Herefordshire, St. Giles. Another view, the fine tympanum, two views of the interior - 1, 2, the font, and some information about it. ST 4612 7180. All © Chris Kippin (2023). Link. Grade I listed.
Pipe Ridware, Staffordshire, St. James. © Bruce Read.
Piper's Ash, Cheshire, the former Methodist Chapel. SJ 4335 6862. © Gervase N. E. Charmley (2010). Since Gervase took his photo the chapel has been demolished. Streetviews show it still in commercial use in 2012, and replaced by housing in 2017.
Pipers Pool, Cornwall, the Methodist Church, built as Wesleyan. SX 2605 8418. © Paul E. Barnett (2017). Link.
Pipewell, Northamptonshire, St. Mary (1881) - said to be the smallest church in the county. Also known as the Abbey Church of St. Mary, a Cistercian Monastery once stood in the vicinity. © David Regan (2017). Link.
Pirbright, Surrey, St. Michael and All Angels on Church Lane. © Susan Heighes (2013). Link. Grade II* listed.
Pirnmill, Arran, North Ayrshire - see Arran.
Pirton, Hertfordshire, St. Mary the Virgin. © Bill McKenzie. Despite being labelled as St. Mary Magdalene, Great Offley, this old postcard in Reg Dosell's collection is clearly Pirton. Thanks to Janet Gimber for unravelling this little mystery. Link.
Pirton, Worcestershire, St. Peter. Another view. Both © Peter Morgan. Two interior views - 1, 2, both © Peter Morgan (2015). The one-handed clock, © Janet Gimber (2018). Link.
Pistyll, Gwynedd, St. Bueno, and its rush-strewn interior. SH 3282 4232. Both © Janet Gimber (2023). Link. Grade I listed. The former Bethania Calvinistic Methodist Chapel (1875), as seen by Streetview in 2009. Another Streetview, from 2010. A Streetview from 2009 shows a memorial, better seen here, to Reverend Tom Nefyn Williams, more on whom here. SH 3263  4198. Coflein entry. News stories from before and after its auctioning.
Pit Hill, Co. Durham - see Beamish.
Pitchcombe, Gloucestershire, St. John the Baptist. © Graeme Harvey. Link.
Pitchcott, Buckinghamshire, the former St. Giles, now converted to residential use. SP 7753 2042. © David Regan (2019). Grade II* listed.
Pitcombe, Somerset, St. Leonard. Another view. ST 6727 3272. Link. Grade II listed. The former Mission Room on Mill Lane, now known as "Old Mission Hall". This source mentions a Wesleyan Chapel on Mill Lane - was it the Mission Room? If it is then it's dated to 1892. ST 6734 3307.
Pitlochry, Perth & Kinross.
Pitminster, Somerset, St. Mary and St. Andrew. Two interiors - 1, 2 and a modern window. The list of vicars commences in 1297. All © Mike Berrell (2014). Link. Grade I listed.
Pitney, Somerset, St. John the Baptist on Gore Lane. Two interiors - 1, 2, and the squint. ST 4446 2850. All © Mike Berrell (2016). Link. Grade II* listed.
Pitsea, Essex, the remains of St. Michael. © Mark Summers.
Pitsford, Northamptonshire, All Saints. Another view, the interior, font, and a fine Norman tympanum. All © David Regan (2016). Link. Grade II* listed.
Pitstone, Buckinghamshire, St. Mary. Not in regular use. SP 9423 1494. © Les Needham. Link. Grade I listed.
Pittenweem, Fife.
Pittington, Co. Durham, St. Lawrence, on Pittington Lane. NZ 3288 4358. © James Murray. Another view, © Colin Coates. Two of the interior - 1, 2, both © Christopher Skottowe. The resemblance of the columns with those in Durham Cathedral will not go unnoticed. Link. The grade I listing dates the oldest parts of the church to the 11th or 12th century. For other listed features see here. St. John (Methodist, 1963) off Coalford Lane. Their website (no longer available in 2025) said that it was successor to congregations from Clayton Street and Dixon Street. NZ 3285 4436. © James Murray. Clayton Street, since re-named as Lawrence Road, was home to a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, at NZ 3297 4435. Two houses now stand on the site, seen here by the Streetview van in 2009. A Primitive Methodist Chapel stood on Dixon Street. Both the chapel and the street have gone. The site of the chapel now lies beneath a pair of houses and their gardens, as seen by Streetview in 2009. NZ 3298 4440. A Salvation Army Hall is recorded as having been de-registered as a place of worship in 1900. Howard Richter speculates that a hall marked on a map of 1939 at NZ 3278 4481 may be this former S.A. Hall. Can you confirm this? A building on the site today has the same footprint, and it can be seen here in a Streetview of 2009. Whether anything of the old hall survives (assuming this is the correct site) is so far unknown.
Pitton, Wiltshire, St. Peter, and its interior. SU 2126 3157. Both © Chris Kippin (2022). Link. Grade II* listed. A churchyard monument is listed as grade II. The village also has a former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, on White Hill, at SU 2117 3125. It has been converted to residential use. The village Wikipedia entry dates it to 1888, with closure no later than 2008. © Chris Kippin (2023).
Pixley, Herefordshire, St. Andrew. © Bill McKenzie.

Plaistow, Greater London - see the London page.
Plaitford, Hampshire, St. Peter. SU 2778 2032. © Chris Kippin (2022). Link. Grade II* listed.
Plaitford Green, Hampshire, Wellow Wood Methodist Chapel. This source dates it to 1967, a re-build of a Primitive Methodist Chapel of 1910. SU 2851 2146. © Chris Kippin (2022). Link.
Plas Newton, Chester, Cheshire - see Chester.
Plasmarl, Swansea (City), Swansea - see Swansea.
Platt, Kent, St. Mary the Virgin. TQ 623 570. © Dave Westrap. Link1.
Platt Bridge, Greater Manchester.
Platt's Heath, Kent, Chapel. TQ 878 506. © Geoff Watt.
Plaxtol, Kent, of unknown dedication. TQ 602 537. © Dave Westrap. A 1920's postcard view, from Brett Jeffery's Collection. Link1. Link2. Link3.
Playden, East Sussex, St. Michael on Rectory Lane, which dates from the late C12. Two further views - 1, 2, and the interior. TQ 9202 2168. All © Carole Sage (2016). Link1. Link2. Grade I listed.
Plealey, Shropshire, Chapel. © James Murray. My appreciation to Janet Gimber, who has advised that this chapel is Methodist. Originally Congregational, it later became Baptist before the Methodists took over. According to the Wikipedia entry, it has also been used by Shrewsbury Evangelical Church.
Pleasington, Lancashire, Pleasington Priory. dedicated to St. Mary and St. John the Baptist (R.C.). Another view, and a doorway. SD 643 266. All © Philip Kapp. Three interior views - 1, 2, 3, all © Mike Berrell (2016). Pleasington Crematorium Chapel (1956) on Tower Road. This sculpture commemorates its 50th anniversary. SD 649 272. Both © Mike Berrell (2013). Link.
Pleasley, Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire, St. Michael on Church Lane. SK 5042 6457. © David Regan (2011). Link. Grade II* listed. St. Barnabas at Pleasley Hill is dated here to 1895. SK 5076 6397. © David Regan (2011). Link. The former Primitive Methodist Chapel on Chesterfield Road is dated here to 1869, closing "before 1920", and appears to now be residential. SK 5062 6426. © David Regan (2021). The former Free United Methodist Chapel on Crow Hill is now in commercial use. Map evidence shows it was built before 1875, and went out of religious use between 1938 and 1955. SK 5055 6419. © David Regan (2021). The former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, now in commercial use. It pre-dates a map of 1899, and was closed in 1970 (source). SK 5012 6460. © David Regan (2021). What is likely to be its predecessor is shown on a map of 1875, on Chesterfield Road. It's difficult to locate it precisely, but will have stood somewhere within this view, from Streetview in 2019. Circa SK 507 642.
Plemstall, Cheshire, St. Peter. SJ 4571 7009. © Peter Morgan (2011). Link. Grade I listed. For related listed features, see here.
Plockton, Highland.
Ploughfield, Herefordshire, the former Jubilee Baptist Chapel (dated 1869), now in residential use. SO 3851 4159. © Peter Morgan (2024). The former Providence Primitive Methodist Chapel. It's dated here to 1862, closing in 2011. SO 3852 4152. © Peter Morgan (2024).
Plowden, Shropshire, St. Walburga (R.C.). © Chris Kippin. Link.
Pluckley, Kent, St. Nicholas. © Bill McKenzie. Link.
Pluckley Thorne, Kent, former chapel (now a private residence). TQ 914 444. © Geoff Watt. Janet Gimber advises that this was Wesleyan Methodist, and later "Pluckley Methodist Church".
Pludd, Devon, the former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. It's dated in its door surround to 1889. SS 4936 4610. Both © Chris Kippin (2023).
Plumbland, Cumbria, St. Cuthbert. Its grade II listing dates it to 1871 (re-using some earlier material), on a medieval site. NY 1415 3923. © Catherine Low. Link. Plumbland Evangelical Chapel (Baptist) at NY 1528 3923 is marked on old O.S. maps as Congregational. It can be seen on a 2009 Streetview here, where the date-stone for 1847 is visible. Link. This source mentions a Mission Hall (a wooden hut) set up by a group of breakaway Congregationalists, active from 1946-1963. I haven't been able to locate its site so far.
Plumbridge, Co. Tyrone, Sacred Heart (R.C.). H 481 911. © Gerard Close.
Plumley, Cheshire, the Methodist Church, which was originally Wesleyan. SJ 7175 7558. © Bruce Read. Link.
Plumpton (or Plumpton Wall), Cumbria, St. John the Evangelist. NY 4973 3717. © Steve Bulman. Another view, © Rosemary Gordon. Link. Its grade II listing dates it to 1907. There used to be a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel west of the village at Brockleymoor, NY 4917 3693. It may have been the predecessor of Cottage Wood Centre at Calthwaite, for which see the Cumbria page. If this is correct, it was originally Congregational, then Presbyterian, and latterly Wesleyan. The building on the site was seen by Streetview in 2009.
Plumpton, Northamptonshire, St. John the Baptist (K). Largely re-built in 1822, incorporating some medieval fabric. There is a date-stone for this date in the porch. Two additional views - 1, 2, and the interior (taken through a window). SP 598 483. All © Howard Richter (2015). Grade II listed.
Plumstead, Greater London, St. Margaret. One of London's lost churches, having been demolished in 1974. From an old postcard (franked 1907) in Steve Bulman's Collection. As advised by Mike Berrell, this website confirms the identification. A mystery photo previously in the "Unknown" section came from Mark Wilson who discovered a photo album in a skip in Dagenham of a church interior, which has a seven-light East window with rose window above. The rather awkward transition from the rose to the junction of the 2nd and 3rd, and 5th and 6th lancets are unusual. The rest of the album can be viewed here, and includes photos including the iron-strapworked door, the only exterior views. Photos are on an external website. Solved by Graham Maxwell, and this link provides the proof.
Plumstead, Norfolk, the 12th century St. Michael on Church Street. Interior view. TG 132 348. Both © Richard Roberts (2018). Link. Grade II* listed.
Plumtree, Nottinghamshire, St. Mary the Virgin. © Tim Hollinghurst. Link.
Plungar, Leicestershire, St. Helen. SK 7693 3404. © David Regan (2011). Grade II* listed. The former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel of 1874 (date-stone) on Church Lane at SK 7683 3405. This source says that there was an earlier Wesleyan Chapel, of "before 1800". The implication of "rebuilt" suggests that it was on the same site. © David Regan (2020).
Pluscarden, Moray, Church of Scotland. Another view. Link. Pluscarden Abbey. Another view, and two interiors - 1, 2. Link1. Link2. All © Peter Morgan (2014).
Plushabridge, Cornwall, the former Plymouth Brethren Meeting Room (or the building on its site) as seen by Streetview in 2022. Genuki says it was built at the end of the 19th century (old maps show that it had been built no later than 1881), closing during or after WWII. SX 3019 7239.
Plymouth, Devon.
Plympton, Plymouth, Devon - see Plymouth.
Plymstock, Devon, St. Mary and All Saints. SX 5172 5301. © Peter Wood. Link. Grade II* listed. Two tombs in the churchyard are also listed here. St. Margaret Mary (R.C.) on Quarry Park Road, as seen by Streetview in 2023. The adjacent church hall was the original chapel (2009 Streetview), dated here to 1933 - it also dates the later church to 1961. SX 5106 5315. Link. Plymstock United Church (2023 Streetview) on Plymstock Road. SX 5073 5331. Link. Plymstock Chapel (Evangelical) on Church Road, as seen by Streetview in 2022. SX 5149 5338. Link.
Plymtree, Devon, St. John the Baptist. Another view, the interior and screen and detail. ST 0518 0291. All © Chris Kippin (2022). Link. Grade I listed. For other listed features in the churchyard, see here. The U.R.C. at Norman's Green is marked on older maps as Congregational. Another view. ST 0559 0359. Both © Heath Nickels, the first photo dating from 2017. A more recent view, with less vegetation, © Chris Kippin (2022). Link. Grade II listed (wherein it's dated to 1850); the churchyard walls and gateway are separately listed, also as grade II.
Pockley, North Yorkshire, St. John the Baptist, has an unusual bell-turret. From an old postcard in Reg Dosell's Collection. Surrounded by trees, it is a difficult church to photograph today - three modern views - 1, 2, 3, the interior and the font, all © David Regan (2015). Grade II listed.
Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, All Saints, SE 802 490. © Paul Brown. Another view. © James Murray. Link1. Link2. St. Mary and St. Joseph (R.C.). Another view, and an interior view, all © James Murray.
Podimore, Somerset, St. Peter. ST 5456 2492. © Chris Kippin (2021). Link. Grade I listed. The VCH mentions a Quaker Meeting House, converted to residential use by 1862. but I haven't been able to locate it precisely.
Podington, Bedfordshire, St. Mary the Virgin. Another view. SP 9418 6268. Both © David Regan (2017). Link. Grade I listed. The village has a former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel of 1902, off Gold Street at SP 9407 6269. Barely glimpsed by Streetview in 2009, there are much better views of it here, where it's dated to 1902. It also says it had a sixty year history, implying closure in circa 1962.
Pointon, Lincolnshire, Christ Church on Pinfold Lane. Interior view. TF 114 319. The former Wesleyan Chapel (1842) on West Road, now in secular use. TF 116 319. All © Mike Berrell (2011).
Polbeth, West Lothian, Polbeth and Harwood Parish Church (CoS) on Chapelton Drive. © Jim Parker (2016). Link.
Polborder, Cornwall, the former Bible Christian Chapel, now in residential use. It's very probably the United Methodist Chapel mentioned here as having been built in 1861. SX 3886 6488. © Paul E. Barnett (2018). A 2011 Streetview from provides another view.
Pole Moor, West Yorkshire, the former Baptist Chapel. This source dates it to an 1859 re-build of a chapel of 1790, with closure in 1992. It was subsequently converted to residential use. SE 0669 1585. © David Regan (2023).
Polebrook, Northamptonshire, All Saints. Another view, two interiors - 1, 2, the chancel, and the font. All © David Regan (2016). Link1. Link2. Grade I listed.
Polegate, East Sussex, St. John. TQ 5814 0464. From an old postcard in Steve Bulman's Collection. Link1. Link2. U.R.C. on High Street, formerly the Congregational Church. It seems to be the same building shown on a map of 1878, though it's unlabelled. By the time of an 1899 map it shows it as a Mission Room. Streetviews show it to have still been U.R.C. in 2011, but by 2012 the church signboard was saying Polegate Free Church, as it does today. TQ 5815 0502. From a postcard in Kevin Gordon's Collection (posted 1907). Link. Cornerstone Seventh-day Adventist Church on Hailsham Road, as seen by Streetview in 2016. Genuki says that it was originally a school, of 1850. TQ 5804 0515. Link. St. George (R.C.) on Eastbourne Road, as seen by Streetview in 2024. TQ 5808 0454. Link. O.S. maps mark, just a little way north of the town at TQ 5869 0571, Site of Abbey (Premonstratensian), and just a short distance east, Chapel (Rems. of), at circa TQ 5875 0571, both near Otteham Court. Neither the site nor the grade II* listed chapel can be seen by Streetview, but a photo of the chapel can be seen here.
Polesworth, Warwickshire.
Polgooth, Cornwall, Methodist Church. The original Wesleyan Chapel has been demolished; the present church is the converted Sunday school. SW 9947 5051. © Jo Lewis (2018). Link.
Polkerris, Cornwall, Tregaminion Chapel of Ease (C). SX 0967 5191. © Paul E. Barnett (2017). Another view, and two ancient crosses - 1, 2, all © Paul E. Barnett (2018). Link. The village also has a converted former Methodist Chapel (originally Wesleyan). SX 0933 5216. It hasn't been seen by Streetview, but a photo can be seen here, and it's dated to the early 19th century in its grade II listing.
Pollacahar (North Uist), Highland, Free Church of Scotland. © Carol Myers.
Pollagh, County Mayo, St. Patrick (R.C.).
Pollington-cum-Balne, East Riding of Yorkshire, St. John the Baptist. © Bill Henderson.
Pollokshields, Glasgow - see the City of Glasgow page.
Polmassick, Cornwall, the former Bible Christian Chapel. It's dated here to 1836-1985. It later became Polmassick United Methodist Church. SW 9710 4543. © Jo Lewis.
Polmear, Cornwall, possible former Chapel, attached to a row of almshouses. Now called Chapel Cottage, the stone above the upper window reads W. R. May 14 1855, which Paul advises stands for William Rashleigh, 14th May 1855 being his death date. More on him here. SX 0884 5346. © Paul E. Barnett (2016).
Polmont, Falkirk, Church of Scotland. © Catriona Livingston. Brightons Parish Church on Main Street, Brightons. © Jim Parker (2015). Link. The Old Parish Church Hall can be mistaken for a church. © Jim Parker (2015).
Polnish, Highland, Our Lady of the Braes (R.C.). © Martin Briscoe. Another view. © Roger Heap. And another, © Bill McKenzie. Link.
Polpeor, Cornwall, the former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, as seen by Streetview in 2009. It pre-dates a map of 1886 (surveyed in 1877), and according to this source, was closed in 1939. SW 5118 3601.
Polperro, Cornwall.
Polruan, Cornwall.
Poltalloch, Argyll & Bute, St. Columba. © Martin Briscoe.
Poltimore, Devon, St. Mary the Virgin. SX 9660 9683. © Chris Kippin (2021). Link. Grade I listed. Several tombs and a cross are listed separately. They can be found here.
Polwarth, Borders, the former Church of Scotland, sold in 2006 (thanks to Jim Napier). It's dated here to 1703, and had at least three predecessors. Another view. NT 7800 4949. Both © Bill McKenzie (2013). Link. Category A listed.
Polyphant, Cornwall, the Methodist Chapel, originally Wesleyan. It's dated 1887. SX 2623 8221. © Chris Kippin (2024). Link. O.S. maps show Chapel (Site of) at SX 2624 8197. If the maps are accurate, the chapel stood to the left of the building at the end of the drive in a Streetview from 2023. I've been unable to discover anything about it.
Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, Presbyterian Church. © Jack Storey. The Church of the Assumption (R.C.). H 693 723. © Gerard Close. Link.
Pondersbridge, Cambridgeshire, St. Thomas. Two additional views - 1, 2. TL 2612 9191. All © David Regan (2019). Link. Grade II listed.
Ponjeravah, Cornwall, the building on (or close to) the site of a Bible Christian Chapel, as seen by Streetview in 2023. It shows on a map of 1888, and seems to have gone out of use in the late 19th or early 20th century. SW 7375 2917. Link.
Ponsanooth, Cornwall, St. Michael and All Angels (1880). SW 7589 3768. © Paul E. Barnett (2024). Link. The imposing Methodist Church (Wesleyan, 1843) on Rye Hill. SW 7577 3764. © Paul E. Barnett (2014). Link. Grade II* listed. Previously listed as a possible church, Janet Gimber advises that this was a Sunday School. Paul has since let me know (2021) that this is now being used for services, and the link he has provided (not working in 2024) refers to it as Cafe Church. Another page of the same website announces the closure of the Methodist Church, in 2019. SW 7600 3753. © Paul E. Barnett (2014). Another view, © Paul E. Barnett (2024). In 2023 it was called Ponsanooth Hall, and evidently still home to Cafe Church (2023 Streetview). Link, with history here.
Ponsonby, Cumbria, dedication unknown, is unique, so far as I know, in having a ha-ha surrounding it. NY 0420 0561. © Steve Bulman. Link. Grade II listed.
Pont-ar-gothi, Carmarthenshire, Siloam Independent Chapel. Three interior views - 1, 2, 3. SN 5062 2175. All © Mike Berrell. Coflein.
Pont-Cyfyng, Conwy, the former St. John the Baptist Mission Church, as seen by Streetview in 2011. According to its Coflein entry it dates to circa 1875, and had closed by 1953. SH 7345 5683. A little further to the S.E. is a former Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. SH 7367 5672. © Martin Richter (2022). Coflein entry.
Pont Gynon, Pembrokeshire, Capel (1862). SN 126 370. © Mike Berrell (2009).
Pont Rhyd-sarn, Gwynedd, Peniel Chapel (Independent, 1895). There was an earlier Independent Chapel nearby, at about SH 8585 2864. Demolished (after 1901, but when?), there should be photos of it "out there" somewhere. SH 8595 2875. © Peter Morgan (2014).
Pont Rhyd-y-Cyff, Bridgend, the former Ainon Welsh Baptist Church on Station Road. The National Library of Wales holds documents for the years 1890-1974. Its date-stone shows a date of 1888(?), but it's curious that maps of the early 20th century don't show a building here. SS 8695 8900. © Gervase N. E. Charmley.  This building is marked as a chapel on maps, but has no visible denomination - can you supply it? My appreciation to Howard Richter for advising that this was built as a school (before 1898, as it appears on a map of that date). By 1940 it shows as a church, and on a 1964 map, is St. Stephen's Church (CiW). Both © Gervase N. E. Charmley. Shiloh Apostolic Church on Llan Road. © Gerard Charmley (2011). Link. Moriah Chapel on Station Road, as seen by Streetview in 2022. The date-stone for 1876 can be seen. Older O.S. maps label it as Jerusalem Chapel (Calvinistic Methodist). SS 8718 8900. Yet another Station Road chapel has been demolished. All available maps identify it only as Capel. It stood on the north side of the road, just west of the railway bridge, at SS 8704 8901. It doesn't appear to have been active after WWI. Its site was seen by Streetview in 2022. The property name (Ainon House) suggests that it was the predecessor of the previously mentioned Ainon. If correct, then the dates mentioned for the other Ainon includes both Ainon's, and the date-stone of this first chapel was built into the second.
Pont Siân, Ceredigion, St. John. Two interior views - 1, 2. SN 4392 4707. All © Mike Berrell (2012). Link. On an O.S. map of 1889, a little way south of the village at SN 4415 4585, is marked Unitarian Chapel (2023 Streetview). It's dated in its Coflein entry to 1878-9, successor to an earlier chapel. Its grade II listing dates its predecessor to 1834, but annoyingly only locates it "at the crossroads". Fortunately the same 1889 map already mentioned shows it at the crossroads in Rhyd-Owen, a little way to the south at SN 4436 4521. See Rhydowen, on the Ceredigion page.
Pont-y-Rhyl, Bridgend, a distant view of the former St. Mary (CiW). Its Cofelin entry dates it to 1891-2. SS 9045 8959. © Gervase N. E. Charmley. Early O.S. maps mark a Mission Room near to the church at SS 9049 8954. It ceases to be labelled in the early 20th century, so it's possible that it was the predecessor of St. Mary. In a 2010 Streetview, its site will be somewhere up the grassy bank - the roof of St. Mary can be seen among the trees in the background. Old maps also mark Carmel Chapel at SS 9047 8963, a short distance N.E. of the church. It survived at least up to the mid-20th century but was closed and demolished at some point. Its site (Streetview 2022) remains undeveloped. Another chapel is shown on old maps - as Nazareth Chapel (Welsh Meth.), at SS 9073 8936. Genuki dates it to 1887, closed by 1998. From an aerial view I think it survives, but it isn't visible on Streetview.
Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot.
Pontarddulais, Swansea.
Pontcyssyllte, Denbighshire, the site (at the far end of of the terrace) of the demolished Yr Hen Methodist Chapel, as seen by Streetview in 2023. Coflein dates it to 1824, replaced by Bryn Seion in Trevor (for which see the Denbighshire page) in 1903, and demolished soon after. SJ 2692 4211.
Pontefract, West Yorkshire.
Ponteland, Northumberland, St. Mary the Virgin. Methodist Church. Both © Bill Henderson.
Ponterwyd, Ceredigion, Capel Ponterwyd (Welsh Presbyterian). A map of 1886 labels it as Meth. Chap. (Primitive). This source discusses the possibility that it may originally have been Wesleyan. Coflein dates it to 1800, with re-builds in 1821 and 1854. SN 7488 8091. © Gerard Charmley. Grade II listed. Coflein also has an entry for an un-dated Mission Room a little way south of the village. It was seen by Streetview in 2021, and has evidently been converted to residential use. But for the small belfry, it would have been difficult to have identified it as a former church.
Pontesbury, Shropshire, St. George. Another view. Both © James Murray. And another view, © Gerard Charmley (2010). Link. Methodist Chapel, originally Wesleyan (1896), with schoolroom added in 1932. Both © Gerard Charmley (2010). Baptist Chapel (1833), Congregational Chapel (1839) and the former Primitive Methodist Chapel, now a private residence, all © Gerard Charmley (2010).
Pontfaen, Pembrokeshire, St. Brynach. Two interior views - 1, 2. SN 022 341. Jabes Capel y Bedyddwyr (1802 and 1842). SN 029 341. All © Mike Berrell (2010).
Ponthir, Torfaen, Ponthir Baptist Church. Interior view. Both © Gerard Charmley (2010). Link.
Ponthirwaun, Ceredigion, Bethesda Chapel (Independent, 1840). Three interior views - 1, 2, 3. SN 2614 4515. All © Mike Berrell (2010). Coflein. Grade II listed.
Pontllanfraith, Caerphilly.
Pontlottyn, Caerphilly.
Pontnewynydd, Pontypool, Torfaen - see Pontypool.
Pontrhydfendigaid, Ceredigion, St. David. Its Coflein entry dates it to 1898-1900, though (it says) "the foundation stone says 1888". SN 7294 6637. © Mike Berrell. Former Chapel (?) on Bridge Street, now in secular use. SN 7306 6661. © Mike Berrell. Penuel Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, also on Bridge Street. SN 7304 6665. © Mike Berrell. Janet Gimber, who identified the latter chapel, advises that the preceding chapel seems to have been the Sunday School for Penuel. This link gives dates for Penuel as 1794, with re-buildings in 1802, 1827 and 1859-60, and re-modelled in 1907. Another view, the date-stone for the 1859 re-build, and three views of the handsome interior - 1, 2, 3, all © Mike Berrell (2013). Coflein. Grade II listed. Carmel Baptist Chapel, of 1872, is labelled as Particular Baptist on a map of 1886. SN 7307 6687. © Mike Berrell (2012). Coflein.
Pontrhydyfen, Neath Port Talbot, the derelict Jerusalem Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. Macpelah-Sardis Independent Chapel, formed following the merger of two congregations in 1994. Both  © Gerard Charmley (2010).
Pontrhydyrun, Cwmbran, Torfaen - see Cwmbran.
Pontsaeson, Ceredigion, former Methodist chapel, now in private ownership. Coflein dates it to 1824, re-built in 1841 and 1871. The vestry (the nearer building) is still used for services. SN 5431 6314. © Mike Berrell (2012).
Pontsticill, Merthyr Tydfil, the former Sion Chapel, now in secular use. Bethlehem Chapel, also now in secular use. (Corrections advised by Steve Brewer). Both © Gerard Charmley.
Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
Pontycymer, Bridgend.
Pontyglasier, Pembrokeshire, Capel Bethabara (Baptist, built 1826, re-built 1873). Interior view (taken through a window). SN 141 364. Both © Mike Berrell (2009).
Pont-y- mister, Caerphilly - see the Risca and Pont-y-mister page.
Pontymoel, Torfaen, St. Michael. © Gerard Charmley (2010).
Pontymoile, Pontypool, Torfaen - see Pontypool.
Pontypool, Torfaen.
Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
Ponygwaith, Rhondda Cynon Taff, the former Hermon Welsh Baptist Church (1881). Soar Calvinistic Methodist Church. Both © Gervase N. E. Charmley.
Pool, Cornwall.
Pool, West Yorkshire, St. Wilfrid. SE 2441 4520. © Bill Henderson. Two more views - 1, 2, both © David Regan (2025). Link. The about us page explains that the church was a re-build of a church perhaps dating from before 1649, and dedicated to St. Swithin. Grade II listed - dates it to 1838-40. The Methodist Church is on Main Street, at SE 2439 4530. It pre-dates a map of 1936. © David Regan (2025). Link. What was probably its predecessor shows on earlier maps on Chapel Row as a Meth. Chap. at SE 2445 4530. It pre-dates a map of 1851, where it's labelled as Wesleyan. Access to it is difficult - photo, © David Regan (2025).
Pool of Muckhart, Clackmannanshire, Muckhart Parish Church (CoS). It's dated to 1838 in its category B listing. NO 0007 0097. © Martin Briscoe. Link.
Pool Quay, Powys, St. John the Evangelist. Two more views - 1, 2, and the interior. SJ 2576 1185. All © Karel Kuča (2023). Link. Coflein dates it to 1860-2. Grade II listed. O.S. maps mark, a little way to the S.W., Strata Marcella Abbey (Cistercian) (A.D. 1170) (Site of), at SJ 2513 1041. Its Wikipedia article says a few courses of stonework are still to be seen. A 2024 Streetview shows the field where the Abbey stood. Coflein.
Poole, Cheshire, the Methodist Chapel on Wettenhall Road, which was built as Wesleyan in 1834 (date-stone). SJ 6365 5584. Both © Peter Morgan (2015). Link. Grade II listed.
Poole, Dorset.
Poolewe, Highland, the Free Church. Church of Scotland (disused). Both © Peter Amsden.
Pooley Bridge, Cumbria, St. Paul. NY 4727 2446. © Malcolm Minshaw. Two more views - 1, 2, two of the interior - 1, 2, and the font, all © Steve Bulman (2025). Link, which dates it to the 1860's.
Poplar, Greater London - see the Greater London page.
Poringland, Norfolk, All Saints. From an old postcard in the Kevin Gordon Collection. Link.
Porkellis, Cornwall, the former St. Christopher, which is now used as the village hall. The village Wikipedia entry says it was closed in the 1970's. Another view. SW 6939 3344. Both © Paul E. Barnett (2015 & 2024). Trinity Methodist Church was originally Wesleyan, of 1866. The adjacent Sunday School was the original chapel, of 1814. According to this source, the congregation has met in the latter building since 1998, and the larger building sold. SW 6910 3343. © Paul E. Barnett (2015). Link. The 1866 building is grade II* listed, and the 1814 chapel (which it says is circa 1860's) as grade II. The possible former Chapel at SW 6921 3310. It certainly looks the part, but it's not marked as a place of worship on any available on-line maps or other sources. © Paul E. Barnett (2015).
Porlock, Somerset, St. Dubricius. SS 8864 4667. From an old postcard in Steve Bulman's Collection. Another old postcard view, this one from Reg Dosell's Collection. A modern view, © Martin Richter (2018). Link. The Wikipedia entry includes a couple of interior photos. Grade I listed. The former (and unrecognisable) Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (1837), now a restaurant. SS 8865 4675. © Martin Richter (2018). A successor Wesleyan chapel took over in 1928, and this is the Methodist Church still active today. SS 8850 4675. © Martin Richter (2018). Some interior photos are available here. Link.
Porlock Weir, Somerset, St. Nicholas a tin tabernacle of circa 1880. Two additional views - 1, 2. An interior photo is available here. SS 8655 4770. All © Martin Richter (2018). Link.
Port Askaig, (Islay), Argyll & Bute, Keills Chapel (ruin). © Martin Briscoe.
Port Carlisle, Cumbria, Solway Methodist Chapel (1861). NY 2418 6197. © Steve Bulman. Link1. Link2.
Port Charlotte, (Argyll & Bute, Islay), St. Kiaran, the parish church for Kilchoman. Free Church, now the Museum of Islay Life. Both © Martin Briscoe.
Port Ellen (Islay), Argyll & Bute.
Port Erin, Isle of Man, St. Catherine. Interior view. Grace Baptist Church. Another view. Link. All © John Balaam (2015). Methodist Church (1903). © John Balaam (2011). Link.
Port Eynon (or Porth Einon), Swansea, St. Cattwg. The statue commemorates the crew of a lifeboat lost during a rescue attempt in 1916. © Alex Parker. Link1. Link2.
Port Isaac, Cornwall, St. Peter (1884). SW 9969 8095. © Bill Henderson (2009). Another view, and two interior views - 1, 2, all © Steve Bulman (2010). The former Roscarrock Methodist Church, now a shop. What was the Sunday School stands to its left. The relationship between the two can be better seen in this more distant view. Both built in 1836, the church was originally Bible Christian, later United Methodist. My appreciation to Steve Willimott for corrections and clarifications regarding the Methodist Church, and for advising that there was at one time also a Wesleyan Chapel in the village, now demolished. SW 9960 8075. All © Steve Bulman (2010). The Wesleyan Methodist stood on Middle Street at SW 9973 8068. Dated here to 1839, it survived at least into the second half of the last century. Its site hasn't been seen by Streetview, and I haven't been able to find a photo of it. It may have been re-built in 1868, as this is the date given here.
Port Loe (or Portloe), Cornwall, All Saints. SW 9374 3942. © Paul E. Barnett (2016). Two additional views - 1, 2, both © Chris Kippin (2018). Link. Grade II listed, which advises that it is a former "lifeboat house". The former Methodist Chapel dates from circa 1860 as Bible Christian, was later United Methodist, and has now been converted to residential use. SW 9391 3949. © Jo Lewis. Grade II listed.
Port of Brims, Highland, ruined chapel. © Bill Henderson.
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, St. Mary, on Bay View Road. Interior view. Link. Methodist Church on Athol Street. Link. Living Hope Church on Bay View Road. Link. All © John Balaam (2017).
Port Seton, East Lothian - see Cockenzie and Port Seton.
Port Sunlight, Merseyside, Christ Church (U.R.C.) on Church Drive. Pevsner dates it to 1902-4. SJ 3385 8452. From an old postcard (franked 1908), in Steve Bulman's Collection. A modern view, © Len Brankin. Link.
Port Talbot, Neath.
Portadown, County Armagh.
Portarlington, Co. Laois, St. Paul (CoI), or the "French Church" (to right, square tower with pinnacles) named for the Huguenots who were a large part of the congregation. The other visible church (with the spire) is St. Michael (R.C.), identified as such by Joseph Cantwell. From an old postcard in Reg Dosell's Collection. Link.
Portbury, Somerset, St. Mary the Virgin. ST 50296 75435. © Peter Morgan (2009). Two additional views - 1, 2, both © Carole Sage (2016). Link. Grade I listed. Part of the Augustinian Priory survives as a private residence. Another view. ST 49833 75231. Both © Carole Sage (2016). Grade II listed. The former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Station Road, now in residential use. Based on map evidence, it was built between the 1880's and 1903, and the last map showing it as a place of worship is the 1970 edition. ST 4975 7549. © Carole Sage (2016).
Portesham, Dorset, St. Peter. Another view, the interior, altar, pulpit, and font. SY 6026 8584. All © Dennis Harper (2011). Link. Grade I listed. There are many listed churchyard monuments too - see here. The Methodist Church on Back Street is dated 1867, built as Primitive Methodist. Another view. The left hand half of the building was built as a schoolroom in 1905. SY 6016 8590. Both © Dennis Harper (2011). Link1. Link2.
Portessie, Moray, the Methodist Church on Chancellor Road. It shows as Wesleyan on older maps. NJ 4418 6545. © Peter Morgan (2021). Link. Its likely predecessor (now in residential use) stands on Chapel Street. It pre-dates a map of 1870, as Wesleyan. It was seen by Streetview in 2008. NJ 4445 6662. Link. Old maps show a Mission Hall at NJ 4427 6657. It has survived, as this 2008 Streetview on Ogilvie Street shows. This source lists its incarnations as - by 1897, Mission Hall, and from 1961, Assembly Hall. Another source mentions an un-located Brethren Gospel Hall, possibly on Victoria Street or Stuart Street. No available maps indicate where it could have been, and it's possibly confusing it with the Ogilvie Street hall which is not far from Victoria Street.
Portglenone, Co. Antrim.
Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
Porthcawl, Bridgend.
Porthclew, Pembrokeshire, the ruins of Porthclew Chapel, on Chapel Lane. SS 023 986. © Mike Berrell. Privately owned, those wishing to visit should seek permission from Sid Howells, Sea Hollies, Chapel Lane, or Barry and Linda Clark, Highlands, Chapel Lane. Link.
Portgordon, Moray, Enzie Parish Church of Scotland stands on a block surrounded by Hope Street, and West High Street. It was previously Enzie North Parish Kirk. NJ 3970 6427. © Peter Morgan (2021). It recently joined with the South and West Church of Scotland in Buckie - see the Buckie page for more details. The former Methodist Church is on Gordon Street at NJ 3985 6433. Link dates it to 1874. © Peter Morgan (2021).
Porthilly, Cornwall, St. Michael. SW 9367 7537. © Roger Heap. Link. Grade II* listed. For the numerous related listed features, see here.
Porthkea (or Porth Kea), Cornwall, the former Methodist Chapel. Originally Wesleyan, it has a date-stone for 1869. Still in use in 1986, when it was listed as grade II, it has since been converted for residential use. SW 8297 4205. © Carole Sage (2017).
Porthkerry, Vale of Glamorgan, St. Curig (O). From an old postcard in Reg Dosell's Collection. A modern view, and an interior view. both © Gerard Charmley (2010). One of the many churches at which John Wesley preached.
Porthleven, Cornwall, St. Bartholomew (1841). SW 6288 2600. © Paul E. Barnett (2015). Link. Chapel of Rest at the northern end of the cemetery on Vicarage Road. SW 6297 2612. © Paul E. Barnett (2015). Christadelphian Hall on Church Row, at SW 6289 2596. Older maps show that it was previously a school. © Paul E. Barnett (2015). Link. The Methodist Church on Fore Street was originally Wesleyan, and is dated 1883. SW 6296 2592. © Paul E. Barnett (2014). Link. Grade II* listed. A short distance to the S.W. is the former Wesley Chapel, on Chapel Terrace, dated in its grade II listing to 1840. Streetview hasn't seen the front of the chapel, but its rear, on The Gue, has, in 2022. SW 6295 2587. Older maps also show a former Bible Christian Chapel (2023 Streetview), later Methodist, on Peverell Road, at SW 6303 2577. It's dated to 1863 in its grade II listing. Hope Church (2023 Streetview) stands on Thomas Street. In 2009 it was Apostolic Church (Streetview). It's first marked as a place of worship on mid-20th century maps, but it's denomination isn't shown. SW 6309 2585. Facebook.
Porthmadog, Gwynedd.
Portholland East, Cornwall, the former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (1881) is now in residential use. SW 9594 4129. © Jo Lewis.
Portholland West, Cornwall, the former Bible Christian Chapel of 1858 is now in use as a holiday let. SW 9565 4115. © Jo Lewis.
Porthpean, Cornwall, St. Levan. It shows on a map of 1888 as Wesleyan Methodist, however neither the church website (which dates it to 1884-5) or the appended listing mention any Wesleyan history. SX 0291 5053. © Paul E. Barnett (2017). Grade II listed.
Porthtowan, Cornwall, The Chapel on the Hill (Methodist). Another view. SW 6926 4701. Both © Paul E. Barnett (2022). Its 1820 predecessor can be seen at left. This source, which has a detailed history (and photos), mentions another chapel of 1841, demolished circa 1980 when the present chapel was built. It stood on what is now the car park, seen in a 2021 Streetview. Link.
Porthyrhyd (N.W. of Llandovery), Carmarthenshire, Smyrna Baptist Chapel. Coflein dates the first chapel to 1828, re-built in 1885. SN 7103 3782. © Gerard Charmley (2011).
Porthyrhyd (N. of Pontyberem), Carmarthenshire, Bethlehem Baptist Chapel, dated by Coflein to 1817 or 1823, and re-built in 1842-3. SN 5207 1579. © Peter Morgan (2011).
Portishead, Somerset.
Portland, Dorset.
Portlaoise, Co. Laoise, the Methodist Church on Station Road. © John Balaam (2022). Link.
Portmahomack, Highland, Tarbat Church of Scotland, on Well Street. NH 9162 8446. © John Mackie. Another view, © Peter Morgan (2021). Link. News story. Tarbat Old Parish Church (St. Colman) is now the Tarbat Discovery Centre. NH 9148 8402. © John Mackie. Another view, and the interior, both © Peter Morgan (2021). Link. Grade A listed. Tarbat Free Church. NH 9134 8410. © John Mackie. Another view, © Peter Morgan (2021). Link. Grade C listed.
Portnacroish, Argyll & Bute, Holy Cross Episcopal Church, consecrated 1815. NM 926 473. © N. Argyll Extracts. Another view, © Bill Henderson (2013). Grade B listed.
Portnahaven, Argyll & Bute (Islay), the Parish Church. James Napier advises that this church sits on a single track road, and almost at its end, with Port Wemyss just a little further on. "It is most unusual," he says "if not unique in a church of this size to have 2 doors – but they do. Why? One for the Portnahaven folk who come from one direction and one for the Port Weymss folk who come the other way!". The Old Free Church. Both © Martin Briscoe.
Portobello, City of Edinburgh.
Porton, Wiltshire, St. Nicholas, and its interior. SU 1903 3649. Both © Chris Kippin (2022). Link. Grade II listed. A Baptist Church stands a little way south of the village on High Street, at SU 1870 3633. © Chris Kippin (2022). Link. Old maps show a Mission Hall on Gomeldon Road, at SU 1902 3639. It pre-dates a map of 1901. In this Streetview of 2021, the hall would have stood behind the trees to the left of the garage.
Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway, Church of Scotland on Main Street, which this source dates to 1840-2. NX 0015 5443. © Bill Henderson. Facebook. Category B listed. St. Andrew's Auld Kirk, 1628-9 (source), which ceased being used as a church in 1842. NW 9999 5422. © Bill Henderson. Category A listed. The graveyard is also listed as category B. St. Ninian (Episcopal). It's dated here to 1937. NX 0010 5430. © Dave Westrap. Link. The former Portpatrick Free Church, latterly Trinity CoS on School Brae, as seen by Streetview in 2021. It's dated here to 1886-7, on the site of a predecessor of 1843, and closing as a church in 1930. NX 0008 5423.
Portraine, Co. Dublin, the derelict St. Catherine. Before the Dissolution it belonged to Grace Dieu Abbey. O 253 509. © Les Horn.
Portreath, Cornwall, St. Mary on Penberthy Road. Adjacent stands another building which Janet Gimber has shown was a Reading Room. She has also advised that this link has a photo of the previous St. Mary, which was demolished in or soon after 1963. SW 6584 4531. Both © Paul E. Barnett (2015). Link. A former Wesleyan Methodist Church (1858) on Penberthy Road, now in use as the Millennium Hall - identified by Janet Gimber. According to this source, it closed in 1997, and was preceded by a chapel of 1836 a little way to the west (its exact location is unclear). SW 6597 4528. © Paul E. Barnett (2015). Grade II listed. There used to be a United Free Methodist Chapel too, on Primrose Terrace, at SW 6610 4514. Pre-dating a map of 1888, it had closed by 1961. Demolished at some point, the housing built on its site was seen by Streetview in 2019.
Portrush, Co. Antrim.
Portscatho, Cornwall, United Church (Methodist and U.R.C.) on The Lugger. Older maps label it as Independent or Congregational. SW 8788 3518. © Jo Lewis. Another view, and the interior, both © Chris Kippin (2018). Facebook.
Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire - see Portsmouth.
Portskewett, Monmouthshire, St. Mary. The churchyard has a preaching cross. A blocked doorway in the tower is supposed to be Saxon in date. Two interior views - 1, 2. All © Janet Gimber (2015). Link. Grade I listed.
Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Portsonachan, Argyll & Bute, the church. © Martin Briscoe.
Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, St. John the Baptist (Episcopal) on Seafield Terrace and Hill Street. NJ 5878 6594. © Martin Briscoe. Category B listed. Church of Scotland on Shillinghill and Seafield Street. Although this source says it is a former church, the appended link says it's still active. NJ 5893 6597. © Martin Briscoe. Link. Portsoy Parish Church on Seafield Terrace. NJ 5869 6590. © Martin Briscoe. Labelled on older maps as West U.F. Church, this link (which dates it to a re-build in 1870) says it is the parish church, but Google Streetmap says it is permanently closed. Older maps also show East U.F. Church, on High Street, at NJ 5882 6592. Maps show it was built between 1866 and 1904. Streetview saw it in 2008. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses on Park Road, as seen by Streetview in 2021. NJ 5841 6614. The former The Annunciation (R.C.) off Aird Street. Barely visible on Streetview, photos can be seen here where it's dated to 1829. NJ 5901 6564. Category B listed. Category B listed.
Portstewart, Co. Derry, The Burnside Presbyterian Church. C 821 374. © Gerard Close. St. John the Baptist (CoI, 1841). C 816 381. © Gerard Close (2011). St. Mary Star of the Sea (R.C.). C 815 380. © Gerard Close (2011). Baptist Church. C 823 363. © Gerard Close (2013).
Portwood, Stockport, Greater Manchester - see Stockport.
Posbury, Devon, St. Luke’s Proprietary Chapel (O). Another view, and its interior. SX 8132 9766. All © Chris Kippin (2021). Link. Grade II listed.
Poslingford, Suffolk, St. Mary. The tower, and the handsome (and early) brick porch. TL 7696 4818. All © Chris Stafford (2013). Link. Grade II* listed.
Postling, Kent, St. Mary & St. Radigund. TR 145 391. © Dave Westrap. Link1. Link2.
Potsgrove, Bedfordshire, St. Mary the Virgin, now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. SP 9515 2985. © Bedfordshire and Luton Archives & Records Service (2007). Link1. Link2. Link3. Grade II* listed.
Pott Row, Norfolk, the Methodist Church on Chapel Road. It was built as Primitive Methodist, and is dated here to 1876. TF 7022 2245. © Richard Roberts (2016). Link. Old maps show St. Luke's Mission Church at TF 7027 2200. Dated here to 1884, it's site was seen by Streetview in 2021, and a 1910 photo of it is available here (top left).
Pott Shrigley, Cheshire, St. Christopher. SJ 9445 7921. © Len Brankin. Interior view, and a window, both © Kenneth Paver (2011). Link. Grade I listed. A churchyard cross is listed as grade II.
Potten End, Hertfordshire, Holy Trinity. TL 017 089. © Les Needham.
Potter Heigham, Norfolk, St. Nicholas. Link. Methodist Church. Both © Geoff Watt.
Potterhanworth, Lincolnshire, St. Andrew, on The Green. © Kevin Price (2012). Three extra views - 1, 2, 3, the interior and font, all © David Regan (2019). Link. Grade II listed. The former Methodist Church on Banff (or Barff) Road. It was built as Primitive Methodist in 1888, and was closed in 2008. (Note that its Genuki entry says it was Wesleyan). TF 0562 6618. Another view. Both © David Regan (2019). Further East along the road stands its predecessor of 1830, at TF 0582 6612. The My Primitive Methodists entry has a photo of the building. It can also be seen on a 2012 Streetview here, where it's evident that it has been significantly altered. This source says that this chapel was Wesleyan, and dates it to 1836. Clearly some more research is needed into the history of these chapels.
Potterne, Wiltshire, St. Mary. Interior view. The church has two fonts - 1 (C15), 2 (Anglo-Saxon). Note the inscribed rim of the latter, which Janet advises is Psalm 42, verse 1, in Latin. Link1. Link2. Grade I listed. The former Methodist Church (1850) on Mill Road was built as Wesleyan. All © Janet Gimber (2017).
Potters Green, Coventry, West Midlands - see Coventry.
Potterspury, Northamptonshire, St. Nicholas. SP 762 433. © Les Needham. Link.
Pottery Field, Leeds, West Yorkshire - see the Leeds page.
Potto, North Yorkshire, St. Mary. © Bill Henderson.
Potton, Bedfordshire.
Poughill, Cornwall, St. Olaf. SS 2224 0775. Link. Grade I listed. For related listed features see here. Methodist Church on Poughill Road. By 2024, Google Maps was labelling it as "permanently closed". SS 2214 0759. Both © Graeme Harvey (2011).
Poughill, Devon, St. Michael and All Angels. Interior view, and some box pews. SS 8567 0846. All © Chris Kippin (2021). Link. Grade I listed. Two chest tombs in the churchyard are listed separately as grade II. The former Congregational Church stands a little way north of the hamlet at SS 8537 0885. It pre-dates a map of 1873-88, and is dated here to 1863. Interior view (taken through a window, with permission). Both © Chris Kippin (2021).
Poulshot, Wiltshire, St. Peter on Mill Lane. The interior. Grade II* listed. St. Paul on Poulshot Road. Built as a chapel-of-ease from St. Peter in 1897, it was in use as a church until 1929, whereupon it became the church hall. Occasional services are still held here. All © Janet Gimber (2017).
Poulton, Gloucestershire, St. Michael and All Angels. © Graeme Harvey.
Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire.
Poundsgate, Devon, Methodist Church. SX 7031 7271. © James Murray. Interior view, © Heath Nickels. Link.
Poundstock, COrnwall, St. Winwaloe - labelled as St. Neot on older maps. SX 2022 9945. © Chris Kippin (2024). Link. Grade I listed. For related listed features, see here. The former Free United Methodist Church at Bangors. SX 2081 9951. © Paul E. Barnett (2017). A more recent photo shows that an extensive conversion has taken place.  © Chris Kippin (2024). Directly across the road is Bangors Methodist Church of 1988 (date-stone). Despite its recent date, the works going on when Chris visited proved to be demolition rather than refurbishment - see here for plans to replace with housing. SX 2080 9948. © Chris Kippin (2024).
Powderham, Devon, St. Clement Bishop and Martyr. SX 9725 8442. © Andrew Ross. Link. Grade II* listed. For related listed features see here.
Powick, Worcestershire, St. James (a chapel of ease). St. Peter. All © Peter Morgan.
Poynings, West Sussex, Holy Trinity. TQ 265 121. © Tony Preston (2016). Link1. Link2. Grade I listed.
Poynton, Cheshire.
Poyntzpass, Co. Armagh, Presbyterian Church (1836). Link. St. Joseph (R.C.). Link. Acton Parish Church (CoI). Another view. All © Richard Edgar (2014).

Pradoe, Shropshire, the Anglican Church, which is extra-parochial, and without a dedication, dates from 1860. Interior view. SJ 363 248. Both © Dave Westrap. Two additional views - 1, 2, both © Peter Morgan (2014). Grade II listed.
Praze-an-Beeble, Cornwall, the former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, now in residential use. Dated here to 1828, it closed in 1999. SW 6366 3583. © Paul E. Barnett (2024). The former Free United Methodist Chapel at SW 6363 3596, from circa 1876-1962 (source). Another view. Both © Paul E. Barnett (2015 and 2018).
Prees, Shropshire, St. Chad. © Gill Gaiser. Three further views - 1, 2, 3, interior view, and the font, all © Dennis Harper (2012). Link. Grade II* listed. The former Congregational Church (1862). This site says it was still in use in 2001. © Dennis Harper (2012).
Preesall, Lancashire, St. Oswald, on Lancaster Road. Two additional views - 1, 2. SD 3594 4833. All © Karel Kuča (2019). Link. Grade II listed, wherein it's dated to 1896. The former Bethel U.R.C. (1836) is on Sandy Lane. It can be seen here on a Streetview from 2018. An un-dated Estate Agents notice. The Methodist Church on Lancaster Road at Knott End. Older maps label it as Primitive Methodist. An old photo is available here, where the chapel is dated to 1904. SD 3530 4845. © John Balaam (2022). St. Bernard (R.C.) stands on Hackensall Road. It was seen by Streetview in 2016, and is dated here to 1920. SD 3525 4838. The cemetery at Preesall Park has two Mortuary Chapels. Both can be seen on a Streetview from 2009. The smaller Nonconformist) one at left is at SD 3678 4620, and the larger (Church of England) at SD 3681 4619.
Pren-gwyn, Ceredigion, Capel Pant-y-Defaid (Unitarian). Its Coflein entry has dates 1802, re-built 1836 and 1898. SN 4251 4420. © Mike Berrell. Two interior views - 1, 2. An especially handsome memorial plaque to Jenkin Lloyd Jones. A window illustrated with a family tree is (as far as I'm aware) unique - unless you know better! All © Mike Berrell (2012). Grade II listed. Capel Carmel. The date-stone says built 1819, re-built 1832. SN 4263 4449. Both © Mike Berrell (2012). Coflein.
Prenteg, Gwynedd, St. John (CiW). Another view. SH 585 414. Both © Howard Richter (2012). Capel Bethlehem (Calvinistic Methodist). SH 588 415. © Howard Richter (2012). Another view, © Howard Richter (2016). Link. The former Horeb Chapel (Calvinistic Methodist). It was originally built in 1746, but has been much altered since then, and is now in residential use. Another view. SH 5766 4168. Link. Both © Howard Richter (2016).
Prescot, Merseyside, Our Lady and St. Joseph (R.C.). SJ 464 927. © David Lea. The demolished Unitarian Church (1757-1879), Atherton Street. SJ 467 929. © unitarian.co.uk. This, and many other old illustrations on this website, are reproduced from the downloadable books on the Unitarian Church Headquarters website here. The books are Pictures of Unitarian Churches by Emily Sharpe (1901) and the 1914 edition of Nonconformist Church Architecture by Ronald P. Jones M.A, (Oxon), and the images are reproduced by kind permission of James Barry of Unitarian Church Headquarters. My appreciation also to Mike Berrell for his efforts in this regard.
Prescott, Devon, Baptist Church. Its grade II* listing dates it to a 1785 re-build of a chapel of 1715. ST 0913 1433. © Andrew Ross.
Preshute, Wiltshire, St. George. Interior view. Both © Graeme Harvey. Another view, © Simon Edwards (2011). Link.
Prestatyn, Denbighshire.
Prestbury, Cheshire, St. Peter. SJ 9006 7693. © Mike Berrell. Link. Grade I listed. For related listed features, see here. Prestbury Methodist Church on Macclesfield Road. Interior view. SJ 9005 7666. The old chapel on Bollin Grove was originally Wesleyan, and in use from ca. 1814 - 2002. It's since been converted to residential use. SJ 9006 7720. Photos of the Methodist Churches are by kind permission of the Minister, the Rev. John Squares. Link.
Prestbury, Gloucestershire, St. Mary. Link. U.R.C. Both © Graeme Harvey. St. Nicolas. © Graeme Harvey (2011). Link.
Presteigne, Powys, St. Andrew, which retains some pre-Norman fabric, though is otherwise largely of C14. SO 3155 6455. © Dorothy Turley. Two further views - 1, 2, and an interior view, all © John Bowdler. Link. Grade I listed. Baptist Church. The date-stone isn't entirely clear in the original, but I think it says "Built 1845, Enlarged 1885". © Gerard Charmley (2011). Methodist Church on High Street, originally Primitive Methodist (1861 or 1867, with adjacent hall of 1888). It had a predecessor of the mid-1830's. SO 3126 6461. © Gerard Charmley (2011). Link. Grade II listed. There was also a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, on St. David's Street. Maps show it present from 1903 to 1975, and gone by 1989. SO 3140 6458. The site where it stood can be seen here on a 2009 Streetview.
Preston, Borders, Bonkyl Kirk (CoS), which stands about 2 miles distant from the village at NT 8086 5960, was built in 1820. © Bill McKenzie (2013). Another view. A list of Ministers "since the Reformation" hangs inside the entrance lobby. Unfortunately the entrance to the church proper was locked on both of my visits. The surviving apse from its medieval predecessor stands adjacent. Another view. All © Steve Bulman (2017 and 2021). Link. Grade B listed.
Prestleigh, Somerset, the former Church of England Mission Church. ST 6344 4044. © Chris Kippin (2021). A Wesleyan Methodist Chapel is shown on old maps at ST 6345 4033. It pre-dates a map of 1886 and survived at least into the 1930's. On the site today is Chapel Cottage, seen here in a 2021 Streetview. How much (if any) of the chapel survives is not known to me.
Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire, All Saints. Christmas-time interior view. Both © James Murray. Another view, © David Regan (2016). Grade I listed. Methodist Church, originally Wesleyan (1898). Former Primitive Methodist Church (1822), now a takeaway. Both © James Murray.
Preston, Gloucestershire, St. John the Baptist. Interior view. Both © Graeme Harvey (2013). Link.
Preston, Lancashire.
Preston, Rutland, St. Peter and St. Paul. © George Weston. Interior view, © Richard Roberts (2014). Grade II* listed.
Preston Bagot, Warwickshire, All Saints. Interior view. Both © Aidan McRae Thomson. Another view and interior, the font, and list of rectors, which goes back to 1274, all © Elaine Sanders. Link. Grade II* listed.
Preston Bissett, Buckinghamshire, St. John the Baptist. Another view. SP 6578 2990. Both © David Regan (2018). Link. Grade II* listed. Chapel Cottage at the southern end of the village is a former Primitive Methodist Chapel. SP 6576 2961. Whether the building (2021 Streetview) is the converted chapel, or a later cottage built on the site of it, is not readily apparent, although the oculus above the doorway is suggestive.
Preston Brook, Cheshire, former chapel on Hill Top Road and the A56. Old maps label it as Mission Room. SJ 5687 8070. © Bruce Read.
Preston Candover, Hampshire, St. Mary the Virgin. SU 606 415. Grade II listed. The remains of the old church of St. Mary. As the grade II* listing explains, the old church was severely damaged in a fire in 1681. Repaired, it was in a bad condition by 1883, when all except the chancel was demolished. Some wall paintings survive. Grade II* listed. All © Chris Kippin.
Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, SS Peter and Paul. © Aidan McRae Thomson. The following are all © John Bowdler (2013) - additional views - 1, 2, 3, the porch, two interior views - 1, 2, pulpit and the font. Link. Grade II* listed.
Preston Deanery, Northamptonshire, St. Peter and St. Paul, now cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust. Another view, two interiors - 1, 2, the chancel and font. SP 789 556. All © David Regan (2017). Link. Grade II* listed.
Preston Next Faversham, Kent, St. Catherine. TR 027 608. © Geoff Watt.
Preston next Wingham, Kent, St. Mildred. Three additional views - 1, 2, 3. Note the curious small blocked doorway in the latter photo. TR 243 604. All © Steve Bulman (2014). Grade I listed.
Preston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, St. Mary. Interior view. Both © Aidan McRae Thomson. Another view, and six interior views - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, all © John Bowdler (2010).
Preston on the Hill, Cheshire, the Methodist Church on Windmill Lane, which was originally Primitive Methodist. It's dated here to 1883-2017, and was successor to an earlier chapel on the same site(?) of 1818. SJ 5708 8072. © Bruce Read.
Preston on Wye, Herefordshire, St. Lawrence. SO 3838 4245. © Tim Hollinghurst. Another view, and three of the interior - 1, 2, 3, all © Peter Morgan (2024). Link. Grade II* listed.
Preston Patrick, Cumbria, St. Patrick, of 1852. It's Wikipedia article advises that the church was previously dedicated to St. Gregory; there was a chapel of ease dedicated to St. Gregory on the same site recorded in 1331. © Elaine Hindson. Grade II listed. Friends Meeting House of 1869, a rebuild of an earlier meeting house of 1691. SD 5420 8405. © Elaine Hindson. Interior view (taken through a window), © Alan Marsden (2022). Link (source for the dates). Grade II listed.
Preston St. Mary, Suffolk, St. Mary the Virgin. Two additional views - 1, 2, the latter showing the fine flushwork on the porch. All © Chris Kippin (2021).Three interior views - 1, 2, 3, the altar, the splendid font, and a board with the Ten Commandments. TL 9460 5028. All © Chris Stafford (2012). Link. Grade I listed.
Preston-under-Scar, North Yorkshire, St. Margaret. A mission Room from Wensley, built in 1862. Two interior views - 1, 2, and the roof construction. SE 071 911. Link1. Link2. Another exterior view. Grade II listed. The former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, now converted for residential use. Another view, and the war memorial. The memorial cannot be on its original building, as the chapel pre-dates the plaque by many years. Certainly built before 1891-3, as it shows on the O.S. map of that edition, it may even pre-date the 1856-7 6" map, though that isn't completely certain. SE 070 911. All © Howard Richter (2016).
Preston Wynne, Herefordshire, Holy Trinity. Three interior views - 1, 2, 3. SO 5588 4658. All © Peter Morgan (2024). Link. Grade II* listed. Two monuments in the churchyard have separate listings here.
Prestonpans, East Lothian. Previously listed as Cockenzie and Port Seaton Old Parish Church, James Denham has advised that this church is Prestongrange Parish Church. NT 3882 7456. © Bill Henderson. Link. Category A listed - dates it to 1596. Salvation Army Hall on Kirk Street. This is perhaps the same building as shown on old maps as a Free Church Hall, or was built on the site of it. NT 3875 7450. © Rob Brettle. Link. Lighthouse Central Church (2022 Streetview) is at the junction of  Ayres Wynd and Orchard Crescent, and is a former Free Church. Its category C listing dates it to 1878, replacing an earlier church on the same site. NT 3870 7439. St. Gabriel (R.C.) on West Loan, as seen by Streetview in 2022. NT 3886 7405. Link. The history page dates it to 1965. Category B listed.
Prestwich, Greater Manchester.
Prestwick, South Ayrshire.
Prestwold, Leicestershire, St. Andrew. The village was cleared in the C18, the church now stands in the grounds of Prestwold Hall. Another view. Both © David Regan (2016). Link. Grade II* listed.
Prestwood, Buckinghamshire, Holy Trinity. SU 8741 9967. © Derek Collier. Link. Grade II listed, wherein it's dated to 1849. The lych-gate is also listed as grade II. The Methodist Church on High Street, as seen by Streetview in 2022. Older maps label it as Wesleyan. SP 8716 0088. Link. Zion Baptist Chapel is shown on a map of 1883, on the north side of Kiln Road at SP 8679 0113. It stood at the front of the surviving burial ground seen in a Streetview from 2019. Closed and demolished at some point, a new church of the same name was built across the road (Streetview 2019). I suspect that this has now closed, as I can find no internet presence. The congregation of King's Church meets in the village hall on Wycombe Road, seen by Streetview in 2021. SP 8702 0080. Link.
Price Town, Bridgend, the former Bethany English Calvinistic Methodist Church (1896, re-built 1905 - Coflein) on Hill Street and Oakfield Terrace. SS 9379 9206. Howard Richter advises that (judging from old maps) the chapel extension comprised the nearest section with the two arched windows on the right-hand side; the building has been converted into flats. It appears to have still been a church when the 1992 OS map was published, but the closure date is not currently known. A former chapel on Hill Street and Ogwy Street. Janet Gimber has advised that this was probably Hope Congregational Chapel, which Howard Richter has confirmed, and he also provides the building date of 1898. The building is not marked as church or chapel on the 1992 map, so was probably closed by then. SS 9375 9204. Both © Gervase N. E. Charmley. Link1. Link2 (another photo, on an external site). Howard Richter also advises that there was a Free Gospel Mission showing on the 1961-2 OS map at SS 9372 9193, since demolished. Streetview saw the site in 2008, and as of 2022 the site remains vacant and completely overgrown. Link.
Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire, St. Peter (1866-8). Added 2023 - now closed as a church - this news item says it was made redundant in 2011. TL 5967 8249. © David Regan (2019). Baptist Church on Main Street. Also added in 2023 - this church too is now closed. This source provides dates of 1875-2019. TL 5951 8247. © David Regan (2019). The village also had a Primitive Methodist Chapel further west along Main Street, at TL 5932 8236. It's dated here to 1894-1988. It was a re-build of an earlier chapel originally of 1846, and is now in residential use. Streetview saw it in 2021.
Priddy, Somerset, St. Lawrence, and its font. ST 5283 5138. Both © Christopher Skottowe (1964). Link. Grade I listed. An O.S. map of 1903 shows a Bible Christian Chapel at ST 5268 5155. An earlier map of 1888 labels it as Chapel (Nonconformist). It, or its replacement with the same footprint, survives, and was seen by Streetview in 2009.
Priest Weston (or Priestweston), Shropshire, the former Zion Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, now a pottery. SO 2911 9743. © Chris Kippin (2021). Link, wherein it is dated to 1845-6, with closure after 1949.
Priesthill, Co. Down, Zion Methodist Church on Kesh Road. J 222 605. © Gerard Close (2020). Link.
Primrose Hill, Derbyshire, the site of the demolished Blackwell Methodist Chapel (previously Wesleyan), as seen by Streetview in 2022. It's dated here to 1875, and survived in active use until at least the late 1950's. It also says that a replacement chapel was built "on land adjacent to the earlier chapel". A 2009 Streetview shows that access to the later chapel was from Whites Lane, off Primrose Hill. This source (un-dated) says that the old church had been demolished because of mining subsidence. I can find no evidence that the local Methodists remain active, but please correct me if I'm wrong. SK 4370 5825.
Primrose Hill, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire - see Huddersfield.
Princes Gate, Pembrokeshire, St. Catherine (CiW). SN 136 127. © Mike Berrell (2011). Another view. © Peter Morgan (2011).
Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire.
Princethorpe, Warwickshire, the College Chapel (R.C.). Another view. Interior view. All © Aidan McRae Thomson. Link (college website).
Princetown, Devon, St. Michael and All Angels, now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. SX 5868 7371. © Alan Blacklock. A distant view, from an old postcard in Christopher Skottowe's Collection. Link, wherein it's dated to 1812-14. The One at the Back Methodist Anglican Ecumenical Partnership (United Church) on Two Bridges Road and Tor Royal Lane. On older maps it's labelled as Wesleyan Methodist. SX 5912 7350. © Alan Blacklock. Another view, © James Murray (2010). Link.
Priors Dean Church, Hampshire - see Hawkley on the Hampshire page.
Priors Frome, Herefordshire, the Chapel, of uncertain affiliation, dates from 1880, as the unusual "date-stone" shows. Both © Janet Gimber (2017).
Priors Hardwick, Warwickshire, St. Mary. Two additional views - 1, 2. SP 472 562. All © Howard Richter (2014). Link. Grade II* listed. Some old black and white photos here, including interiors.
Priors Marston, Warwickshire, St. Leonard. Two additional views - 1, 2. Four interior views 1, 2, 3, 4, the pulpit, altar, a modern window and the font. All © John Bowdler (2013). Link. Grade II listed. The former Wesleyan Chapel (1858, converted 1973, as the date-stone obligingly tells us). Another view. SP 4895 5740. All © Howard Richter (2015). The former Primitive Methodist Chapel, long converted to residential use. Note the filled in round-headed window in the end wall. A photo of the chapel in the 1920's is available here, which shows round headed windows on the long side too, and a now-vanished porch. Genuki says that the church was founded in 1855, though whether this building is of that vintage is uncertain. Warwick Record Office holds documents for 1905-1933, and it seems likely that the chapel closed near the latter date. SP 4895 5790. © Howard Richter (2015).
Prior's Norton, Gloucestershire, St. Mary. © Graeme Harvey.
Priorswood, Taunton, Somerset - see Taunton.
Priston, Somerset, St. Luke and St. Andrew. Interior view - note the two Norman arches - here's a close-up of one of them. However, the appended listing says the church underwent a major neo-Norman restoration in 1861, so perhaps these arches are from then. All © Chris Kippin (2022). Link. Grade I listed. Other listed features can be seen here.
Prittlewell, Essex, St. Mary the Virgin, has some fragments from as early as the 11th century, but is mostly 15th century. © Brian Thompson. Another view from an old postcard in Steve Bulman's Collection.
Privett, Hampshire, Holy Trinity, dates from 1878. © Chris Kippin. Link (with interior photo). Grade II* listed.
Probus, Cornwall, St. Probus and St. Grace. SW 8990 4773. © Graeme Harvey (2015). Another view, © Paul E. Barnett (2016), and another (2017). Link. Grade I listed. For a listed tomb and the war memorial, see here. The graveyard has a tiny building dated 1877, possibly a mortuary chapel or watch house. SW 899 476. © Paul E. Barnett (2017). Large scale maps mark, at the S.E. corner of the graveyard, Chapel (Site of) (2009 Streetview), at SW 8994 4767. It's called St. George here, where it's dated to no later than 1447. The former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel  is now in commercial use. SW 8990 4788. © Paul E. Barnett (2017). Another view, © Jo Lewis. Its predecessor of 1788 survives on the plot to its north, and was seen by Streetview in 2023. SW 8990 4789. Link which advises of the closure of the Methodist church in 1992, the congregation subsequently meeting in the village hall (2009 Streetview) on Amelia Close. The former Bible Christian Chapel, now in residential use. It's dated here to circa 1882, with closure in 1948. SW 8915 4784. © Jo Lewis. An old photo is available here. The same source mentions a predecessor of 1822 on Back Lane (and includes a photo of it), but I haven't been able to locate Back Lane. At a farm east of the village stands Golden Chapel, now in use as a barn. It is supposedly a secret chapel used by St. Cuthbert Mayne before his arrest and martyrdom. SW 9209 4690. © Jo Lewis. Video.
Prospect, Cumbria, the former Primitive Methodist Chapel, as seen by Streetview in 2021. This source dates it to 1860, closing "by 1991". NY 1150 4069.
Prudhoe, Northumberland, St. Mary Magdalene. NZ 095 630. Link. The Gate Church. NZ 095 627. Both © Bill Henderson (2012).

Publow, Somerset, All Saints. Two further views - 1, 2, two interiors - 1, 2, the pulpit and font. The church has some good glass; here are two examples - 1, 2, the latter being the Millennium window. Site visitors of a certain vintage may remember Acker Bilk, who is buried here. ST 62346 64147. All © Carole Sage (2016). Some examples of the gargoyles which adorn this church - 1, 2, 3, 4. All © Carole Sage (2017). Link. Grade I listed.
Puckeridge, Hertfordshire, St. Thomas of Canterbury (R.C.). Old maps suggest it was built in the 1960's or early 1970's. TL 3853 2310. © Karel Kuča (2019). Link. Just a short distance to the south, and on the opposite side of the road is a (former?) Congregational Chapel, seen by Streetview in 2016. It pre-dates a map of 1878-9. TL 3846 2309.
Puckington, Somerset, St. Andrew. Another view. ST 377 183. Both © Mike Berrell (2014). Grade II* listed.
Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, St. Thomas à Becket. Another view, and an unusual grave. Link. Grade I listed (which lists it as St. Thomas of Canterbury). The remains of the former Congregational Chapel. Another view. All © Janet Gimber (2012). The former Methodist Church, built as Primitive Methodist in 1851, and now a private residence. © Janet Gimber (2014).
Pudding Norton, Norfolk, the ruins of St. Margaret. Pudding Norton is a lost village; the church is perhaps C12. TF 918 278. © Richard Roberts (2015). Link. Grade II listed.
Puddington, Devon, St. Thomas à Becket. SS 8335 1066. Link. Grade II* listed. A chest tomb and railings are also listed, as grade II. A little way north of the hamlet stands the former Tristram Congregational Chapel. It has a date-stone for 1854. SS 8324 1077. All © Chris Kippin (2021).
Puddletown, Dorset, St. Mary the Virgin. Interior view showing the gallery and organ, and another taken from the gallery. A medieval tomb. Roger explains that this is Thomas Hardy's Weatherbury Church. The gallery (C17) was used by the church musician's, Hardy's father being one of them. SY 7587 9436. All © Roger Hopkins, who rates this church highly. Another view, the interior, the pulpit and tester, the early font, and the intricate roof timbers, all © Christopher Skottowe (1978 [photo 1] and 2013). Link. Grade I listed. Numerous monuments in the churchyard have separate listings - they can be found here. A former Congregational Chapel stands on Athelhampton Road, east of the town, at SY 7619 9419. Pre-dating a map of 1902, it was seen by Streetview in 2016.
Pudleston, Herefordshire, St. Peter. Another view. SO 5653 5976. Both © Chris Kippin. Another view, and two of the interior - 1, 2, all © Peter Morgan (2023). Link. Grade II* listed.
Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Pulborough, West Sussex, St. Mary. Another view. TQ 047 187. Both © Steve Taylor. Link. St. Crispin & St. Crispinian (R.C.). Another view. TQ 046 188. Both © Steve Taylor. Link (very slow when I tested). U.R.C. Built as the hall for the Congregational Church in 1947, the congregation now worships here, and the church has been sold. © Gervase N. E. Charmley (2012).
Pulford, Cheshire, St. Mary. SJ 3754 5877. © Jane Marriott. Link. Grade II* listed, wherein it says that it was re-built in 1881-4 on the site of a medieval predecessor.
Pulham Market, Norfolk, St. Mary Magdalene. TM 198 862. © Steve Bulman (2005).
Pulham St. Mary, Norfolk, St. Mary the Virgin. The splendid porch. TM 212 854. Both © Steve Bulman (2005). Link. The former Baptist Church, now in industrial use. © Gerard Charmley (2015).
Pulloxhill, Bedfordshire, St. James the Apostle. TL 0616 3380. © Bill McKenzie. Interior view, from an old postcard in Judy Flynn's Collection. Link. Grade II* listed.
Pumpsaint, Carmarthenshire, Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, as seen by the Streetview van in 2016. SN 6556 4075. Coflein dates it to 1875, enlarged in 1886. Salem Baptist Chapel. It stands about a mile N.N.W. of the village at SN 6496 4228. Its Coflein entry dates it to 1828, re-built, and/or enlarged in 1871. © Neil Floyd. Grade II listed.
Puncheston, Pembrokeshire, St. Mary. SN 083 298. Smyrna Capel y Bedyddwyr (1827, with subsequent work in 1871 and 1928). SN 006 298. Both © Mike Berrell (2010).
Puncknowle, Dorset, St. Mary. Two further views - 1, 2, the interior, altar and font. SY 5350 8865. All © Dennis Harper (2011). Link. Grade I listed. For related listed features see here. A little way west of the church is a former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, at SY 5333 8866. A 2021 Streetview shows the building, with (unreadable) date-stone.
Purewell, Christchurch, Dorset - see the Christchurch page.
Puriton, Somerset, St. Michael and All Angels. ST 3204 4172. Link. Grade I listed. A monument in the churchyard is listed separately as grade II. The former Congregational Chapel on Woolavington Road. ST 3217 4150. Both © Chris Kippin (2020).
Purton, Gloucestershire, St. John the Evangelist. Interior view. Both © Graeme Harvey (2012). Link.
Purton, Wiltshire, St. Mary. Another view. Both © Malcolm Rigg. Two further views - 1, 2, both © Bill McKenzie (2010). Another two views - 1, 2, and an interior view, all © Simon Edwards (2011).
Pusey, Oxfordshire, All Saints. Interior view. Both © Aidan McRae Thomson. Link.
Putley, Herefordshire, the church (no dedication). Another view, the splendid churchyard cross, altar and reredos, pulpit, and font, all © Janet Gimber (2017), who found much to admire here. A blocked doorway, and two close-ups of the figures on the cross (there are four in all) - 1, 2, all © Paul Wood (2018). Link1 (an excellent history). Link2. Grade II* listed. The cross is also grade II* listed.
Putney, Greater London - see Greater London.
Puttenham, Hertfordshire, St. Mary. SP 885 149. © Les Needham. Link.
Puxton, Somerset, St. Saviour. The leaning tower of Puxton. The lean is believed to date from the original building. ST 4066 6326. Both © Andrew Ross. Two further views - 1, 2, the porch, interiors - 1, 2, 3, 4, and the pulpit, all © Carole Sage (2016). Originally a chapel of ease to St. Andrew's in Banwell, it became a parish church in C18, and was made redundant in 2002. It is now cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust, and services are still held here occasionally. Grade I listed.

Pwll, Carmarthenshire, Holy Trinity (CiW) on Elgin Road. Another view. SN 4809 0110. Both © Jim Parker. Link. Coflein dates it to 1905. Libanus Independent Chapel on Elgin Road has a date-stone for 1878. Another view. SN 4827 0109. Both © Jim Parker. Coflein. Bethlehem Baptist Chapel on Pwll Road. Its date-stone says built 1834, re-built 1874. Another view. SN 4736 0107. Both © Jim Parker. Coflein. Grade II listed. Cemetery Chapel. © Jim Parker.
Pwllcrochan, Pembrokeshire, St. Mary. SM 921 026. © Mike Berrell (2009).
Pwllgwaun, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff - see Pontypridd.
Pwllheli, Gwynedd.
Pwllmeyric, Monmouthsire, the former Methodist Chapel on Chapel Lane, now residential. Another view. Both © Janet Gimber (2015).

Pyecombe, West Sussex, Church of the Transfiguration. TQ 292 126. © Tony Preston (2016). Link. Grade I listing, which says the dedication is unknown.
Pyle, Bridgend.
Pylle, Someret, St Thomas à Becket. ST 6071 3833. © Chris Kippin (2021). Link. Grade II* listed.
Pyrford, Surrey, St. Nicholas. © Barbara Barklem. TQ 040 583. Another view, © Mehmood Naqshbandi (2009). Link. The ruinous remains of Newark Priory. Another view. TQ 041 576. Both © Mehmood Naqshbandi (2009). Link.
Pyrton, Oxfordshire, St. Mary. Interior view. Both © Alan Craxford (2013). Link. Grade II* listed.
Pytchley, Northamptonshire, All Saints. SP 860 748. © Les Needham (2013). Link. Grade I listed.