in the 18th century, methodists were recorded in cholmondeston, as well as in the adjacent parish of poole, which john wesley visited four times between 1751 and 1757. wesley is believed to have stayed at gates farm, just inside the cholmondeston boundary, and he preached in the farm's kitchen. a wesleyan methodist chapel was built in cholmondeston in 1833. it was replaced by a later red-brick chapel, built from the twentieth century fund, which opened in 1903. the chapel closed in 1973.