In the early 1830s, George Loveless and Thomas Standfield, two of the six men from Tolpuddle, Dorset, later convicted, in 1834, under the Combination Act of 1825 of sedition, by taking an oath of secrecy about their illegal trade union and its activities, in 1818 had constructed a simple one-room building serving as a Methodist chapel and later as a meeting place for the trade union. The building was erected on leased land adjacent to Standfield's cottage. It was mostly constructed with cob walls on a brick and stone base with some flint also used. The original roof was rough timber and probably thatch; the building now has pantiles on the roof.
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