Central Methodist Church, Eastbourne
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 143 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5091-0773-3
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Central Methodist Church is the main Methodist place of worship in Eastbourne, a town and borough in the English county of East Sussex. The large town-centre building, with attached schoolrooms and ancillary buildings, is the successor to earlier Methodist places of worship in the area. Soldiers brought the denomination to the area in 1803, when an isolated collection of clifftop villages stood where the 19th-century resort town of Eastbourne developed. A society they formed in that year to encourage Methodism's growth and outreach survives. Local Methodist worshipper and historian Carlos Crisford designed the lavish church in 1907, and it has been used for worship ever since—even as several other Methodist churches in the town and surrounding villages have declined and closed. As of 2013, it also provides a home for a Baptist congregation displaced from their church, which was sold for redevelopment. English Heritage has listed Central...
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