registered charity, No. 1129529

 

Cookridge

Minister:
Rev Darren Garfield

Worship Times:
Sunday mornings at 10.30am (Family Parade on 2nd Sunday

of the month)
 

 

 

What’s on?  || Where are we? || History
 

Regular activities include:

Beavers, Cub Scouts, Scouts,

House Groups,

Luncheon Club,

Afternoon Tea Group,

Wednesday Fellowship,

Thursday Group,

Youth Group

Monthly Film Club

Gardening Society

Nursery School

 

Regular second-hand book sales

 

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Where are we?

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Cookridge Methodist Church
Otley Old Road

Cookridge

Leeds

LS16 7DF

 

 

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Cookridge Methodist Church - a brief history

By Don Cole...

Through the centuries, Cookridge was an area of scattered farms. In the late 18th century two farming families there became members of the small Adel Methodist Society. During the 19th century growth of chapel buildings Cookridge Methodists worshipped in nearby villages, for example Eccup, Horsforth and Meanwood.

From 1928 onwards numerous homes were constructed in what became known as Cookridge 'Village'. Some of the inhabitants met for worship in a house on Tinshill Road called 'Wrenbury'.

Towards the end of 1943 local Methodists began to seek the support and involvement of the Headingley Circuit. On the 10th November 1944 they held their first service in the Home Guard Hut at the end of Green Lane. (The congregation included members of other denominations.)

Another wave of house building began in 1956, and a site was secured where Tinshill Road joins Otley Old Road. The Hut was removed to that site in September 1958.

A huge crowd attended the stone-laying ceremony for a new, brick built, church on 27th May 1961, and a year later, 19th May 1962, the new building was officially opened.

An extension was added and opened on 27th June 1971, and in September of that year a manse was built near the Green Lane site of the Home Guard Hut.

Refurbishments and further building work have continued into the new century.

 

 

 

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