Clowes Memorial Primitive Methodist Chapel, Church Street (now William Clowes Street), Burslem

BURSLEM - On Whit-Monday memorial stones of a new Primitive Methodist chapel were laid in Church Street, Burslem. The new chapel will be a plain brick building, with stone dressings, and will be erected from the designs of Mr. G. B. Ford by Mr Grosvenor of Tunstall [Building News 14 June 1878 page 596]

The memorial stones of the new Clowes Memorial Church were laid on 10 June 1878. and was opened on 27 March 1879. It was estimated to provide 900 sittings

In 1898 three adjoining cottages were purchased and on 16 April 1900 the foundation stones of the Clowes Institute (architect Ford and Slater) were laid and the Hall and Sunday Schools were opened on 9 October the same year. The church and the Institute remained in use until 1956 when they were demolished as a result of mining subsidence.