Maxton Tabernacle

"Another literary link with this locality is the fact that the late Rev. Thomas Russell, one of the pioneers of the Primitive Methodist Connexion, on being superannuated in the year 1876, built the Barnsley-Smith House, and Maxton Tabernacle on the land adjoining, and there re-wrote his Records of Primitive Methodism, and also memoirs of the two Bournes, his co-workers in the early days of Primitive Methodism."  (JBJ 1907)

TABERNACLE

1874

PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD

Most of the Tabernacle has been demolished, but the stone over the front door shows that this house, in Churchill Road, is the one mentioned by Bavington Jones.  The date on the stone shows the house to have been built two years earlier than he recorded, in 1874.

The remains of the church can just be seen from the Folkestone Road - the rest of the site is now occupied by a block of flats.