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| Location |
Junction of Crossways street
and Court Road, Barry.
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here for a map of the location. |
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| Times |
11.00 a.m., 6.00 p.m. |
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| Contacts |
Steward: Chris
Pickering 22 woodlands road, Barry CF63 4EF. Organist:
Dr. Bryan Ashmead 30 Slade Road, Barry CF62 9AL.
bryan@bvashmead.fsnet.co.uk |
738586 737705
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| History |
Crossway Methodist Church was formed by the
amalgamation of Holton Road and Court Road Methodist Churches.
The original Church on the Court Road site was one which was
built by an offshoot of the Wesleyan Movement, "The Bible
Christians". Before building their Church in 1905, they met for
worship, as did many others in Barry, in member's houses, and
later in a large room in the Barry Dock Hotel (now Amy Evans).
To accommodate some of their bigger prayer meetings a large tent
was purchased and erected in fields in Court Road. By 1891
sufficient funds had been raised by contributions from working
men, and generous contributions from Mr. John Cory (when
building work faltered through lack of finance) to enable a
permanent building to be erected there. "The Andrew Carnegie
Fund" helped purchase the organ with a donation of half its
cost. Mr. Lever, Corn Merchant of Court Road gave the silver
Communion service.
The congregation of a small Church in Buttrills
Road named "The Methodist Free Church" began to meet for worship
in a building in Spencer Street in 1897. The following year they
moved to Buttrills Road to a larger building. In 1905 they sold
their small Church, and together with the Primitive Methodists,
(whose Church which opened in 1897 and was situated in Pyke
Street), joined with Court Road Wesleyan Methodists. Under an
Act of Union of 1905 all Methodist Churches and Wesleyan Chapels
then became "The United Methodist Church" taking as its name
"The Methodist Church." By 1963 the Churches at Court Road and
Holton Road combined and met for services in the former St.
John's Anglican Welsh Church in Court Road, whilst their new
Church "Crossways", was being built.
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