Hinde Street Methodist Church

Hinde Street's West End location attracted the foremost preachers in Methodism, and its pulpit gained a formidable reputation.

In its early days it provided invaluable instruction in reading and writing especially for the poorer children of the neighbourhood, prior to the provision of universal state education.

[5] It has a classical frontage, a high spire and an interior that remains largely unaltered save for removal of the original downstairs pews.

In the twentieth century this became a defining feature of the Hinde Street constituency, and the church attracted large numbers of students and young people in the early stages of their working life.

The church retains many young adult members, some of whom live in two residential communities maintained by Hinde Street.

In 1972 the lease of Kingsway Hall was sold and plans were made for the West London Mission to move to Hinde Street.

It adheres to an open, questioning and socially aware Christianity concerned with the perennial task: ‘to serve the present age’, as once described by Charles Wesley.

[6] King's Cross church with its flourishing Chinese congregation, joined Hinde Street and the West London Mission in the Circuit in 2000.