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The façade of the church. Godalming United Church is a non-conformist church formed in 1977 of a union of the local Methodist and URC churches. Built in 1903, it is located between the fire station and the River Wey in Godalming. Godalming United Church is a registered place of worship for marriage, both of opposite-sex and same-sex couples. [1]
The building formerly known as Godalming Congregational Church was the Congregational chapel serving the ancient town of Godalming, in the English county of Surrey, between 1868 and 1977. It superseded an earlier chapel, which became Godalming's Salvation Army hall , and served a congregation which could trace its origins to the early 18th century.
It was in turn replaced by a new church—the Hugh Price Hughes Memorial Chapel (now Godalming United Church)—on Bridge Street, almost opposite the Congregational chapel, in 1903. [2] [8] [10] The Methodist Church retained the Mint Street building at first and leased it to a Salvation Army congregation, then sold it to them in 1918. [2]
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has historically regarded itself as a “big tent” denomination. But as member churches across the United States vote to disaffiliate from the UMC, the ...
In May the 1 million-member United Methodist church in the Ivory Coast quit the old denomination. In June, Nigeria Episcopal Area, with reportedly 600,000 members, ...
The six-church Guildford Methodist Circuit administers Cranleigh Methodist Church and Godalming United Church, a shared Methodist and United Reformed church. [98] Farnham, Hale and Rowledge's Methodist churches are in the Hants–Surrey Border Circuit. [99] Haslemere Methodist Church is within the East Solent and Downs Methodist Circuit. [100]
It is one of several current and former places of worship in Godalming with listed status: St Edmund's Roman Catholic Church, [31] Meadrow Unitarian Chapel, [32] the former Salvation Army Hall on Mint Street (originally Congregational, and later Methodist) [33] and the later Congregational church on Bridge Street (also no longer in religious ...
The United Methodist Church owns all church buildings in trust for its congregations, so churches that wanted to leave had to transfer title to their building. They had to get a two-thirds vote of ...