Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - The Growth of Wesleyan Methodism at Penarth . . .

A number of Arcot Street members 'after much thought and prayer' decided to found another Society and a plot of land on Farmer Morgan's 'Woodland Farm', was purchased, which already had on it a Tin Church known as Playter's Church. This had been erected in 1887 to provide pulpit for a Mr. Playter, a former curate of St. Augustine's who had been asked to leave for preaching a sermon 'not acceptable to the authorities'. He took a considerable number of the congregation with him to the Tin Church ; in time the congregation fell away and he moved to London. . . .

An illustration of 'Gothic Style' as published in 1850 within Frederick James Jobson's 'Chapel & School Architecture, as appropriate to the buildings of nonconformists: with practical directions'. The Arcot Street, Penarth, Chapel followed the general requirements as set out within the volume.