Like many of these early chapels it was, by the mid 19th century, too small or too simply built for comfort - the rebuilt chapel cost £160 according to the 1862 register of Wesleyan Methodist chapels.

Manx Sun, Saturday, 3rd January , 1857

A new Wesleyan Methodist chapel was opened for public service on Sunday week, at Glascoe, in the parish of Bride. A tea-meeting in connection with the opening took place in the neighbourhood on Christmas evenning which was presided over by Wm. Callister, Esq., and attended by a large number of people.

Some of the costs were recouped by obtaing a popoular "people's preacher" to give an outdoor meeting

Mona's Herald, Wednesday, 17th June 1857;

The Rev J. Bellamy, of Douglas, delivered two elaborate sermons on behalf of the Wesleyan Chapel trust fund, Glascoe, Bride, on Sunday last, in the open air near the chapel. Crowds were attracted from the surrounding parishes and the town of Ramsey. The site selected for the occasion was well adapted, being a large hollow, formed hy the digging of clay, over which Nature had again spread her verdure. In an elevated position in the centre stood the young minister, while surrounding him were tier after tier of human beings arranged on the natural amphitheatre. A choir from the Wesleyan chapel, Kerrowgarrow, performed with their accustomed ability. The collections amounted to £12.

The same approach was followed in 1858

Mona's Herald, Wednesday, 21st July 1858

Two sermons were preached by the Rev. Joseph Bellamy on Sunday last on behalf of the Trust Funds of the Wesleyan Chapel Bride, in the open air near to that edifice. The discourses were delivered in the preacher's characteristic style; and the assembly to whom they were addressed comprised a large multitude from the neighbouring parishes extending over a circuit of seven miles, including numbers from the town of Ramsey. The congregation surrounded the rev. gentleman in the natural amphitheatre which had been formed on the spot in the days of their forefathers by the digging out of marl for agricultural purposes. We have not heard what the collections amounted to, but think it must have been a considerable sum from the respectability of the assembly.

The Sunday School operated by this chapel was obvously popular - Mona's Herald, Wednesday, 29th June 1859 reporting on the Annual Sermon on behalf of Glascoe Sabbath School, held it appears in the same old Marl pit noted

The Sabbath children, who number about 70, had a very imposing and pleasing effect, and sang, with the aid of their teachers, the hymns marked for the occasion, without scarcely a musical fault, and in a manner that would be a credit to many a choir of adults. The whole was under the superintendance of Mr. Thomas Lace, of Grenaby, whose exertions to get a Sabbath School formed and kept up in that neighbourhood have not been in vain.