Lancaster Methodist Church
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History John Wesley passed through Lancaster on his journey North on May 11th 1759. Although there is no record of him preaching in the town, he encouraged the formation of a Methodist society. In 1794 an upper room at the corner of Wood Street and Damside was furnished as a preaching place. Services were held there for eleven years. Land was then purchased at the corner of Sulyard Street and Fryer Street for a chapel, with a further plot in Fryer Street for a Preacher's House. The continuing history of Sulyard Street to the present day can be found by following the link below. Lancaster Methodist Church was formed on Easter Sunday 2001, when a number of Methodist churches in Lancaster came together to form a single Methodist society. The premises formerly belonging to Greaves Methodist Church in the South of the city (now known as the Scotforth Road site) and Wesley Methodist Church in the city centre (in Sulyard Street) have been retained and are used for services and other activities, the former being renovated in a major building scheme and the latter becoming The Cornerstone, a base for our Fresh Expression of Church, in 2007. The mission chapels on the Marsh estate and at Westham Street were closed at that time. If you are interested in the history of Lancaster itself we suggest you visit the Vision of Britain website. We are still researching the history of each of the chapels, but details of what we have found so far will be found by following the links below. There are five war memorials, shown on a separate page, displayed at the Scotforth Road Church. |
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