Churchill Methodist Church

[5] This chapel was demolished in 1880 so that Sidney Hill could erect a new Wesleyan church on adjacent land gifted by William Bobbett.

[6][b] Sidney Hill had married his wife, Mary Ann Bobbett, at the old chapel on 15 June 1864,[8] and erected the new church as a memorial to her after her early death on 7 December 1874(1874-12-07) (aged 35).

[12] The schoolroom and coach house, of Elizabethan architecture, were erected before the new church, and opened on Whitsun, 1 June 1879 (145 years ago) (1879-06-01).

[6][e] In 1898, Sidney Hill funded the addition of a porch that was designed by Foster and Wood and built by Henry Rose of Churchill.

It cased with freestone, and has an arched pitch pine ceiling, divided into panels by moulded ribs, bearing on attached stone shafts.

At the extreme end of the chancel, immediately above the communion table, there is memorial window by Clayton and Bell, representing Dorcas amidst the people that she helped, in her illness, in her death, and resurrection.

[2] Immediately beneath the memorial window, and extending the whole length of communion platform, there is brass plate with the following inscription:[2] This building was erected in the year of our Lord 1880, by Sidney Hill, Esq., of Langford-house, to the glory of God, and in memory of the life and labours (in this parish, and at Port Elizabeth, South Africa), of his beloved wife, Mary Ann, who was born in Bristol, March 6th, 1839, and died at Bournemouth, Dec. 7th, 1874.In April 1894, Sidney Hill gifted four stained glass windows to the church.

The stained glass windows were made by James Bell and Son, College Green, Bristol, and represent:[15][j] On each sole of the church entrance is a pedestal brought from Bethlehem and Jerusalem, the gift of William Sidney Adams, of South Africa, that held lamps when the porch was first opened.

[27][l] Young formulated designs for a number of other windows in the school:[29] The Reverend Meg Slingo is the incumbent minister covering Churchill.

Photograph of the porch with a view of the right side door and stained glass windows
Porch linking the church with the schoolroom
Photograph of the gable end of the schoolroom (dated 1879) and porte-cochère to car park
Gable end of schoolroom (dated 1879) and porte-cochère to car park