Chorlton Central Church

Chorlton Central Church is a congregation combining members of the Baptist denomination and the United Reformed Church.

The Church is part of the South West Manchester Group of Churches:

• Chorlton Central Church,
• Roby United Reformed Church, Dickenson Road, Longsight
• Trinity Community Church, (a URC and Baptist Church based in Hulme and Moss Side)
• Wilbraham St Ninian's United Reformed Church, Wilbraham Road, Chorlton.

In October 2005 Central - formed in 1975 by the union of McLaren Memorial Baptist Church and MacFadyen Memorial United Reformed Church - celebrated its 30th anniversary.

The Church premises are in the heart of Chorlton, a lively, leafy, cosmopolitan suburb that has many elderly people, a stable nucleus of families and a transient population of students and young families. Church members have diverse backgrounds and independent minds, but seek to be led by the Holy Spirit.

Members are strongly committed to issues of social justice; including

• Fair Trade
• Racial Justice
• Christian Aid
• the Make Poverty History campaign
• support for refugees and asylum seekers

The Church is committed to becoming and open and affirming congregation, welcoming people to share our journey, whatever their age, race, culture, gender, sexuality, economic status, or physical or mental ability. We are a small congregation and the usual attendance at Sunday worship is around 30.

click on the logo to visit the website of the United Reformed Church and find out about one of the denominations of which we are members.

and click on this logo to visit the website of the Baptist Union and find out about the other one !

Central works ecumenically within Churches Together in Chorlton. On 27th May 2007 Chorlton Central formally committed itself to work with three other local Churches in the non-conformist tradition;

Wilbraham St Ninian's United Reformed Church
Wilbraham Road
Manley Park Methodist Church
Egerton Road
Chorlton Methodist Church
Manchester Road

To read the full text of the Statement of Intent click on the image

revised 27 05 07