Petts Wood - Christ Church
Another in the ever expanding Church Micro Series, started by Sadexploration.
The site of the present Church building was purchased in 1937 and in April 1939 a meeting of interested residents met to consider the establishment of a Congregational Church. The first service was held in a classroom in St Dunstan’s school in St John’s Road. Petts Wood Congregational Church, as it was called, was officially constituted in November 1939, and with the constitution of the church so a Sunday school was started with 15 children. However most of the children were evacuated in the early part of the war forcing the closure of the Sunday school but the Church itself continued to meet at St Dunstan’s despite the difficulties experienced with the air raids.
In 1941 the Sunday school restarted, Church numbers grew and a licence was granted for the erection of a prefabricated hut. It was built on the site of the present Kingsbury hall and opened in 1943. As the church continued to grow the original prefabricated hut was extended in 1949. The opening and dedication of the first phase of our present Church building took place in October 1954, with the completion of the second phase in 1957 with a membership of 270.The present Kingsbury hall and Marlborough hall were opened in 1962 followed by the Lounge and the Tudor Room in 1991.
In 1972 Petts Wood Congregational Church joined the United Reformed Church and was renamed Christ Church United Reformed Church.
The above text was extracted from the web site of the church.
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At the given coordinates you are standing in front of the church. There are two stones on the front of the church; both were laid on October A BCDE. The cache, a nano tube, can be found by walking from the given coordinates:
BA*(B+C) metres or AC*BB feet
in a direction of AB*(C+D)/2 degrees
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