In 2021 Eden Heritage was commissioned by 1880 Ltd to undertake an historic building recording project at Crossens Methodist Church, Rufford Road, Southport, Merseyside SD 37413 19886). The building recording project was required as a condition of planning consent, associated with the proposed conversion of the Church building to mixed commercial use, for which planning permission has been granted by Sefton Council. The survey building comprised a vacant chapel which was built as a Methodist Free United Chapel in 1880 by Maxwell, Tuke and Hurst (HER Reference 18804). The Methodist Society recorded that the site at Crossens was acquired for the chapel in 1879 and on Shrove Tuesday in 1880, the memorial stones were laid. The chapel opened as a Methodist Free United Chapel on the first Sunday in October 1880 and became part of the Southport Circuit of the Liverpool District of Methodist Churches. A Sunday School was added in 1891.