Manchester Rd, Denton
Joseph Robinson of Glossop and Joseph Perry of Hazel Grove came to live in Denton and they started a Sunday school in a cottage on Water St behind Alpha Terrace on Manchester Rd. This was provided, rent free, by Thomas Baxedale (or Baxendell). Once a fortnight the Revd J Bond of Manchester conducted services and afterwards the Revd J G Hartley of the Stockport circuit commenced working at Denton. Due to the success of these services it was decided to build a church.

A day/Sunday school was built in 1867, which backed onto Holland St, and in the following year a brick-built church was built on the corner of Manchester Rd and Grey St that could seat around 400 persons. Finance was provided by Thomas Baxendale and other friends. Although the school closed in 1913 it was temporarily reopened between 1945 and 1953.

Following the opening of the day/Sunday school and church, the ministers were housed in several different places but in 1907 a permanent residence was obtained by buying a house on the south side of Manchester Rd near Grey St. This became the manse for succeeding ministers until it was sold in 1949.

The church closed in 1970 and from 1978 until 1981 Manchester Rd North and the M67 motorway were cut through the site.

Originally, this church was an English nonconformist community founded in 1857 by an amalgamation of the Wesleyan Association and Wesleyan Reformers. In 1907 it merged with the Methodist New Connexion and Bible Christians to form the United Methodist Church. In 1932 the United Methodists joined with the Wesleyan Methodists and the Primitive Methodists to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain.