Hyde Rd, Denton
This church opened on the 27 Jun 1872 and the first service was held by the Revd J Ratenbury.

The building on the right in the first photo is Trinity House, which was built in 1882. This was provided as a residence for the incumbent minister, the first one being the Revd J Dixon.

On the 9 Feb 1817 the Trinity Wesleyan Church first opened in a cottage on Ashton Rd and it remained there until 1872 when it moved to a new building on Hyde Rd. By 1836 the cottage on Ashton Rd was too small so a new church was built next to it. In 1845 this was enlarged by adding an upper storey but the datestone in the gable records 1836. The upper room was used for worship while the ground floor was used as a day and Sunday school.

Revds John Wesley (1703-1791) & Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
The brothers were both Anglican clergymen, evangelists and founders of the Methodist movement within the Church of England. However, there was increasing resistance to their preaching methods within the church and when they learned of the formation of the Fetter Lane Society in the City of London in May 1738, they decided to attend the first meeting. This was founded by the Moravian leader in London, Peter Bohler, and initially, most of the members were Anglicans. In due course the brothers had a doctrinal disagreement with the Moravians and they broke away, taking about 50 other members with them, to form John Wesley’s Foundry Society.

For worship John Wesley acquired a former cannon foundry (spelt ‘foundery’) and converted it into a chapel, hence the name. This was situated on Moorfields in the City of London and it was the first base for worship and the earliest meeting place for Methodists. After alteration the building consisted of a chapel, apartments and study for John Wesley, a dwelling house for family members and preachers, a school band room, a coach house and yard, and a stable

At this time a set of rules that members were expected to follow was introduced and in order to promote more Methodist Societies John and Charles Wesley became widely travelled preachers in Britain and North America.