High Park Rd United Methodist Free Church, Southport
High Park Rd,
Southport
Lancashire
Church History
It was founded before 1885. It is now closed, but we do not know the date of closure.Bland in his "Annals of Southport" has an entry for April 24th 1885, when "Memorial stones" were laid by the Mayoress (Mrs Pilkington), Mrs G Mansell, Mrs S W Higginbottom, and Mr J J Barlow.
In 1907 the United Methodist Free Church merged with the Methodist New Connexion and the Bible Christians to form the United Methodist Church.
In 1932 the United Methodists joined with the Wesleyan Methodists and the Primitive Methodists to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain.
Maps
The church was located near OS grid reference SD363174. You can see this on maps provided by:- this church marked on a Google map. (Use this to report a corrected location)
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The information provided has been obtained from a number of sources and although every effort is made to avoid errors, just a few may be present. So if there are any please let us know. [Use the link at the bottom of this page].We do not currently have the following information, and if you can provide it then please do so:
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- We know the church has closed but do not know in which year this happened.
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