Great Glen Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built in 1827. By 1860 the original building and subsequent extensions and alterations had cost £500. In 1873 the chapel provided seating for 223 persons. The school was added in 1879. In 1940 the chapel had seating for 100 in pews and there was one schoolroom and one other room. The porch on the link building was added in 1989. The building continues in use as a Methodist place of worship
Sources
Leicestershire Record Office, N/M/NDD 1-15, Annual trust returns, Nottingham and Derby District 1860-1878
White’s Directory of Leicestershire, 1863 p 561
Wesleyan seating returns, 1873, p 57
Methodist Accommodation returns, 1940
OS 25 inch Leicestershire XXXVIII.9, 1884-6
Site visit 4.5.2018
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