Category: Arts & Crafts

The church will be open for a coffee,  a look around, and meet Rev. Sharon Read on:

Saturday 16th November, 10.30 to 12.00

All are welcome.

Graham and partner visited the Church on Sunday 3rd Nov. as a result of their challenge for 2024. To visit all 111 places, not to be missed in Manchester, see the book title. The Church was visit number 103, so with 8 weeks to go success is within sight.

The Arts & Crafts Church and Edgar Wood Rooms are open for art exhibitions, workshops and events on:

7, 8, 11, 14 & 15 September 2024

Church: Saturdays & Wednesdays 10:30am until 4pm, Sunday 1-4pm
Edgar Wood Rooms: Saturdays 10:30am until 12pm, Wednesdays 10:30 until 4pm, Sunday 1-4pm

‘The chapel is a knockout’ says the latest Pevsner Guide. Designed by architect Edgar Wood and completed in 1901 it is an Arts and Crafts delight, with aspects of Gothic, Art Nouveau and Modernism intertwined.

You can park 3 hours for free at nearby Market Place car park M24 6AE but must display a ticket from the machine with your arrival time.

Additional event!
Art Nouveau: A worldwide Phenomenon
Dr Anne Anderson FSA  |  13 September, 7:30pm  |  £5 admission

The Edgar Wood Society has another year of interesting events ahead. From an outing to Liverpool and Briarcourt to an Art Nouveau talk. There’s something for everyone. Please have a look and get involved at www.edgarwoodsociety.org/events

Using the guide lines from  All We Can (allwecan.org.uk) the Methodist overseas charity, the service was led by the Church Stewards.

There was a collection for All We Can and a packet and tin food collection for the local food bank, based at the Lighthouse project in Middleton. The link below will show that 55.1 Kg of food items were delivered.

MCFB Thank you certifcate 2023 – Harvest collection Long Street Methodist Church Sept 23

Coffee and tea is normally served after the Sunday service, but on 10 Sept. there was an extra special coffee morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. Coffee (or tea) was vailable with a selection of cakes and various sweet delights.  Thank you to Margaret and David for organising the event and all those for supporting the Macmillan Nurses.

A Memorial Service was held in the Church today at 4.00pm. The service was for the bereaved relatives and friends of those who had died during and since the start of the pandemic. This is usually an annual service, but owing to covid it has not taken place since 2019. It was a quiet and reflective service and members of the congregation were invited to light candles in memory of their loved ones.

Thank you Sharon

If you were in the Scouts, Guides or Youth Club in the 70’s at Long Street Methodist Church you may well rememberJohn Chamberlain and Katherine ….?

They were down from Yorkshire attending a reunion of the above and joined the morning service,talked about the ‘old ‘times, friends and had a walk around the building, remembering as it was and surprised about the changes following the restoration.

Thank you for coming and sharing your memories of time at Long Street.

On Monday afternoon 4th July, twenty two members of the Victorian Society in American Summer School visited the Church and Schools Rooms. This was their third venue of the day, following a hard hat tour of the Manchester Town Hall and the Victoria Baths.

They were relieved to soak in the atmosphere of the church and enjoy refrehments before looking around the building and learning about importance of the architecture of Edgar Wood.

The email received following their visit is as follows:

Many thanks to you and your colleagues at Long Street for hosting today’s visit for the Victorian Society in America, and also for your warm hospitality. The visit was greatly appreciated, and it was an eye-opener for the whole group to see such a masterpiece. They had not heard of Edgar Wood before, but now they will be spreading his fame. While I have visited the building before it is always such a delight to experience . What a wonderful architect he was!
With thanks and best wishes,
Ken

Two charities were supported at the  Harvest Service on Sunday 3rd October.

A pew collection in aid of the Methodist supported charity, All We Can and for tinned and dried food for the local food bank at the Lighthouse Project based in Middleton.

The Church and School Rooms were open for five half days during this year’s HODs, attracting both local and visitors from the wider region. The walk around the Conservation Area and the Edgar Wood properties on Sunday 12th September was over subscribed. A pre booked group of 22 were divided into two groups and starting in opposite directions. The walk will be repeated in Spring 2022, so send an email if you wish to be informed of details nearer to the time (edgarwoodsociety@gmail.com).

Visit Long Street Methodist Church and the adjacent Edgar Wood Rooms to see the finest Arts & Crafts building in Greater Manchester. Guides will be on hand to answer any questions.

Friday 10 September 1 – 4pm        Sunday 12 September 1 – 4pm  

Sunday 12 September 2pm  Leaving from the Church at 2pm a guided walk around the Conservation Area to view 9 listed buildings in the ‘Golden Cluster’. For full details: https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/event/a-guided-walk-around-middleton-conservation-area
Wednesday 15 September 1 – 4pm

Friday 17 September 1 – 4pm        Saturday 18 September 1 – 4pm

It was good to welcome back the Edgar Wood Society Committee to the Edgar Wood Rooms. They had a very good meeting in the old Lecture Room.

The gates were opened and It was good to be back for a service at Long Street although with a difference, for the first service in the building since 15th March, 2020.

To make easier to comply with covid protocols, the service was held in the hall of the Edgar Wood Rooms. The atmosphere was different, but a success all the same and will be repeated again next week. If you would like to book a seat phone 0161 6530512.