A quick bit of background information about this past church:
The building closed as a Methodist Church in 1978, operated as a Catholic Church for a further 20 years, but was then converted into apartments. The inside of the building has therefore gone forever. This Website is for that dwindling band of people that remember all the good things that happened there.
The Church was built in 1833 and has undergone many vicissitudes. That, quoted from memory, is how Rev. George Eayrs begins his note on the Church is his book "Wesley and Kingswood and its Free Churches", published in 1911. It probably sums up the whole history of the Church in one sentence.
In 1833 there was a small village here, partly due to the industry at Warmley Tower. The area between Cadbury Heath and Kingswood was a maze of narrow lanes between high hedges, and even the road to Warmley was a lane with tall trees on either side. Many lanes were just hard ground, beaten down by use. The ‘Avon and Gloucestershire Light Railway’, known to most people as ‘The Dram Road’ had been built in 1832, but was only used for Coal Trucks pulled by horses. The local railway line was not built until 1864. The Carriers Cart was the transport of the day, for those who couldn’t walk.
There was a Methodist Church at Kingswood, near the present Training School, possibly a Schoolroom at Cock Road, the small Church on the Common at Bridgeyate, and, as far as I can discover no other Methodist Church between there and Bath, and the need for another building for the Denomination was clear.
To find the cache, complete the following:
At the posted co ordinate, you will see the old church is now flats, at the top of the building you will see when the church was built, let this be ABCD.
To get the final co ordinates, workout the following sum:
N51. (C-A) (B-A). (A-A) A B W002. (B-C-D) B. (C*D)-A) (B-C) (B-D)