Methodist chapel and school room first depicted on the 1891 OS map, by this time the hamlet of Grimesthorpe was on the northern fringe of the Industrial Don Valley and this church was built to serve the accompanying industrial population of the area. The polygon sits in the corner of a triangle of roads all depicted on the 1851 OS plan and including Upwell Street, Upwell Lane and Chambers Lane. The Bagley Dike bisects this area and it is possible that the central area (known as 'Bowling Green') may have been a fragment of common land around which the small hamlet shown on the 1851 OS developed. Earlier road patter constitutes fragmentary historic legibility of earlier landscape character.