Wollerton Congregational (now U.R.C.) Chapel A small Independent chapel seating 120, with a manse, "situated on rising ground not far from the turnpike road from Hodnet to Market Drayton" was built c.1800. In May 1866 it was decided to rebuild the chapel and manse. The memorial stone of the new chapel was laid on 26 July 1867 by Thomas Barnes M.P., patron of Congregational chapels. The new polychrome brick chapel, built at a cost of £1,000 was opened on 7 April 1868. The building holds 200 hearers, and has a burial ground attached. The east end has a "wheel" window by Thomas Huxley of Malpas, the architect of the chapel. The chapel is still in use today (2001). The old chapel was partly re-used for building a schoolroom and partly for additions to the manse. Grid ref: SJ 620304.

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