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Nexus Methodist Church

 

Nexus was formed by joining together Walcot and Claremont Methodist Churches. It is one society with two buildings.

 

Walcot Chapel

Nelson Place East, London Road, Bath

 

Claremont Chapel

Claremont Road, Bath

 

Minister	Rev Audrey Simpson	01225 464371	revaes@googlemail.com
Church Office	Margaret Thynne	01225 461509	nexus@bathmeth.freeserve.co.uk
Senior Steward	Sharon Keevill	01225 332008
Lettings Secretary (Walcot)	Terisha Burge	01225 311156
Lettings Secretary (Claremont)	Peter Clare	01225 743727

 

Sunday Service times

10.30 a.m. Walcot

11.00 a.m. Claremont

 

Nexus Methodist Church - Who Are We?

 

We are an inclusive congregation made up of all sorts of people with a breadth of life experiences.

Some of us are new to the church and to the faith, others have been Christians or members of the church for longer than we care to remember.

Some of us live nearby and some of us travel into the city for worship, work or education. Some of us come to worship when we can and some come to everything. As a diverse, thinking, caring people we seek to be a community wherein God is glorified, lives are transformed, the unconditional love of Christ is practised and the call for justice is sounded.

In 2001 Walcot Methodist Church and Claremont Methodist Church joined to form Nexus Methodist Church. The word 'nexus' means to bind together and is found at the centre of a word commonly used by Methodists, namely, 'connexion'. We have retained our two buildings giving us flexibility when it comes to church activities and outreach.

Nexus Methodist Church - Regular Events

Sunday

Morning services are held at 10.30am at Walcot and 11.00am at Claremont. In addition there is an evening service at 6.30pm once a month at Claremont, a bible study at 9.15am on the second Sunday at Walcot, and a communion service at 9.15am on the last Sunday at Walcot.

Our Spectrum service is held once every three months, and provides a more informal style of worship.

Church lunches are held periodically at various venues around Bath - see the church notices for details.

The Genesis Sunday Centre runs on Sunday afternoons at Walcot, providing a cheap lunch and a social centre.

Monday

Lunch Club 12-1.30pm at Walcot. This is typically attended by around 35 people and includes a monthly service and weekly activity.

Coffee Plus meets monthly 8pm at Walcot with a guest speaker.

Housegroup meets monthly for Bible study at members' homes.

Tuesday

Guild 2.30pm at Claremont.This group meets fortnightly, has a programme of speakers and an annual holiday.

Fellowship meets fortnightly 3.00pm at Walcot Court with a programme of speakers.

Wednesday

Parents and Toddlers 10am-12pm at Walcot.

Housegroup meets 8.00pm fortnightly for Bible study.

Thursday

Coffee and Chat 10.30-12.00 at Claremont.

Friday

Parents and Toddlers 10am-12pm at Walcot.

Games Club meets monthly 8pm at Walcot or in our homes to play board games and relax!

Contact with these groups can be made through the minister or Senior Church Steward.

Lettings

Both buildings have a variety of rooms available to hire, from small meeting rooms to large halls. Walcot has also been used a concert venue on many occasions. For details please contact the lettings secretary for the appropriate building.

Chapel House, originally the minister's house next door to Walcot, is now available as student accomodation. Please contact the church stewards for more details.

 

 

Walcot

 

Walcot Chapel was built in 1815 and is a Grade II listed building.

  

The interior of the church was updated in 1991 to provide a more flexible worship space (the altar table and pulpit are all movable to allow different activities to take place).

Downstairs the building has a large hall, well-equipped kitchen and a number of small meeting rooms.

The Organ

The organ dates from the 1790s and was originally built for the Assembly Rooms in Bath. It was installed in Walcot in 1818 (a few years before the Methodist Conference voted to allow organs to be installed in churches), and is believed to be the oldest organ in continuous use in a Methodist church anywhere in the world.

The organ was recently restored and upgraded to provide an instrument that will continue to serve into the 21st century.

Carved angel on the organ casing.

Interesting Features

Interesting features: The windows in the church were replaced in the 1930s-40s, and many of them are dedicated in memory of church members. One of the windows has a medal to commemorate Denis Frazer - a member of the church who was killed at the age of 22 while working with an ambulance unit in France in 1944.

People with short legs may like to try out the pews at the back of the balcony, which were built for the pupils of Kingswood School, in the days when they marched down to the hill to attend services at Walcot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Claremont

The rose window at Claremont was designed by Victoria Blight and was created in 1991 by students at the City of Bath College. The window depicts the spirit of Pentecost entering the centre of the rose window with the spirit of God in creation being symbolised in the outer circles.