Nailsea Methodist Church
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Nailsea Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Nailsea, North Somerset, England.
Methodism has deep and distinguished roots in Nailsea. It began back in 1789 when John Robert Hall preached the first Methodist sermon on the village green. Just 3 years later the first chapel was opened on 5th August 1792 in what is now Chapel Barton in the Kingshill area, where it was extended, and grew through the 19th Century. A second Ebenezer Chapel was built not far away on Union Street and this building, which opened On 21st December 1856, survives and is now the home of Nailsea Theatre Club. In 1914, another new chapel was opened on the Silver Street site to be nearer the new village centre; the fellowship was moved from Chapel Barton and the two Methodist societies eventually united here at what is now called Chapel Precinct.
By the 1960s several small additional plots of land had been added to the site, and the old building had been extended. A growing awareness of community need especially amongst young people led the church to make a significant change in building provision. In 1965, resourced partly by Somerset County and Central Government, they built the Methodist Youth Club of Nailsea (MYCON) Youth Centre and provided an all-weather outdoor-floodlit sports area.
In early 1992 the old church was replaced with a larger, flexible, multi-purpose building and the Youth Centre was refurbished and renamed the Wesley Centre after Methodism’s founder, John Wesley.
The Methodist Church and Wesley Centre in Silver Street now provide a focus for worship and outreach with Sunday services and midweek activities serving the local community in and around Nailsea.
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