From a Preaching Plan for the Tadcaster Circuit dated May to October 1829 we note that the Tadcaster Chapel held services each Sunday at 9am, 2pm and 6pm.  The other 21 churches in the Circuit had one or two preaching appointments each week or fortnightly.  Some preachers were taking three appointments each Sunday.

It would appear from papers titled Subs to Extinguish all debts in Circuit 1869 that the whole Circuit was involved in clearing the capital cost of the new Tadcaster Chapel of 1828.

In 1887 a Sunday school building was added to the Chapel at a cost of £595.17s.11d.  William Hollings, one of the Sunday school superintendents, laid a foundation stone which was later incorporated into the re-development scheme of 1981.

A table of details of the Churches within the Tadcaster Area, between the Great North Road and Appleton Roebuck, shows that from a total of twenty-eight, fourteen were listed as dissenters, ie not C of E:

9 Wesleyan Methodists
4 Primitive Methodists
1 Independent.

The entry for Tadcaster reads:
Erected 1828
Free Sittings 120 – Other Sittings 420

Estimated number attending -	am	194 adults	74 children
	pm	187 Adults
	eve	355

This information is confirmed by an entry in the History of Chapel Cottage, Stutton, Yorkshire.  This Chapel and Stutton Methodist Society had been prospering since the 1850s with between 20 and 30 members. It was always linked with the Mother Church in Tadcaster who were also enjoying a large membership.