The founder of Methodism, John Wesley, visited Tunbridge Wells in his early years as a preacher and gained a small congregation there.

[4] Meetings initially took place in the Presbyterian chapel[5] at Little Mount Sion, which had opened in 1721;[6] Wesley preached there "on several occasions".

[11] Vale Royal's licence to conduct marriages and Christian worship services within it, which was granted on 17 July 1873,[1] was formally revoked in 2018.

[5] It is of local Kentish ragstone laid in the form of random polygonal masonry, and there are dressings of paler Bath stone.

[8] The gabled façade has corner buttresses which rise to form tall finials[5] or pinnacles, and there is tracery in the windows.