Minehead Methodist Church, The Avenue

In 1876 the Luttrell steward agreed to allow Methodists a site in Station Road, now the Avenue, for a chapel completed in 1878 with 110 seats. It was enlarged in 1886 and a Sunday school was added in 1906. Services were held twice on Sunday and on two weekday evenings at the new chapel. Membership rose steadily from 71 in 1919 to 260 in the 1970s. By 1953 monthly communion was celebrated. In 1969 the Minehead circuit joined with the former Bible Christian circuit to create the West Somerset Methodist circuit. The Avenue Methodist church remains open beside the old hospital.