Enfield CircuitThe London District |
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History of Southgate
Methodist Church |
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The first small group of Methodists in
Southgate joined together for worship at a cottage in Chelmsford Road in
1885. From that "first flame", the group soon outgrew their first
meeting place and moved in turn to a baker's shop, a marquee, an old
corrugated iron building called the Iron Chapel and, in 1891, the Wesleyan
Chapel on Chase Side (near present day St Andrew's). By the early 1920s,
Southgate was changing from village to suburb with the coming of the
Southgate tube station, and plans were made to move the church to a still
larger site on Bourne Hill. October 1929 saw the congregation's
first worship service in its new home. Southgate Methodist Church became
known locally as The Bourne Methodist Church due to its location and to
distinguish it from New Southgate Methodist Church in Barnet. The church continued to grow with the neighbourhood.
Our older members recall that "young and old, rich and poor alike"
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For the
youngest and poorest, church was often a place to get warm during the long,
cold winter. The rapidly expanding Sunday School meant that new rooms were
built in 1937. The two-storey building of Martin Luther and St Augustine
halls opened in 1956 and has since housed a wide variety of church and
community activities. In the 1990s a
major redevelopment scheme modernised the worship facilities and provided
greatly improved premises now constantly in use by the church and community
for worship, study, relaxation, meetings, and activities. Modern homes are
heated now, but the Bourne continues to be widely known as a warm place, both
for its people and its premises. We hope to
carry that flame into the future! |
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