Primrose Hill Chapel

In 1840 a labourer called Thomas Wilcox had come to Brentwood and was staying at lodgings in the High Street. He was a Methodist and presumably wanted to attend Methodist meetings, but there was no meeting house for Methodists in Brentwood.

He began to hold meetings in this house (which would later be turned into the Sir Charles Napier pub), but his landlord was not happy with people coming and going for meetings so he would often have to hold meetings outside.

Within 10 years the group had managed to raise and borrow the funds to build a chapel at the top of Primrose Hill with seating for 60, which was finished in 1844. In the Ecclesiastical Census Returns of 1851, the afternoon service had 40 attendees and the evening had 30.

With the continued growth of Brentwood and eventually the society had to move on and find bigger premesis. The Methodists ultimately moved to a church on Warley Hill after a failed building project on Queens Road.

The church may have then used by the growing Baptist society since a "Strict Baptist church" was listed on Primrose Hill in 1878, but by about 1880 it had been sold to an Evangelical congregation.

In 1957 it became a Full Gospel church when it was taken over by the Assemblies of God. In about 2015 the church closed and in about 2020 it was converted into flats.