Fonds GB 0210 EBEWAV - CMA: Records of Ebenezer Chapel, Waverton, Cheshire

Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Waverton, was one of the chapels of the Rev. Philip Oliver's Calvinistic Methodist Connection.

This Cheshire Methodist connection was founded by the Rev. Philip Oliver (1764-1800), an evangelical Anglican minister. He was a friend of the Rev. Thomas Charles of Bala, and he and other Welsh Calvinistic Methodist ministers who could preach in English assisted in the work. The connection was put on a formal footing shortly before Philip Oliver's death, when Thomas Charles and two others were given complete oversight and management. Until 1813 the connection's ministers and lay preachers continued to be supplied by the Welsh Methodists, with some from the Church of England and Lady Huntingdon's Connection, but for the next forty years they appointed their own ministers. In 1853 the connection and its six chapels, comprising Octagon (Chester), Ebenezer (Waverton), Tarvin (closed and sold pre-1892), Delamere (closed 1971), Saighton and Cotebrook, were received into the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Connection.

The first building at Ebenezer was built in 1849 on land given by Dr Davies Colley. The church was enlarged in 1865, and the schoolroom built in 1878 and enlarged in 1892. Ebenezer celebrated its centenary in 1949, and closed in 1982.