Headingley Methodist Church Open Day - As Time Goes By on the Otley Road
1-3 Chapel Street, Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6 3HZ
For Heritage Open Days this year, we are opening our 179 year-old church on Saturday September 7th from 1000-1300. We invite you to come to explore the church and its treasures. Spend some time looking around the church with its original pews and pulpit, organ and church mice, and in visiting rooms behind the church and in the gallery, which are not usually open to the public. We have a quiz sheet for children and our volunteers will be on hand for information. You can also explore outside the church, where we continue to develop a wildlife friendly garden.
Thinking about this year's HODs theme, we delved in our archives to create, with local colleagues, an exhibition of photographs celebrating the main road along which our members have travelled to church. There are photos of the Otley Road over two centuries; showing its shops and buildings as they changed during the time the church has stood in its present position. These offer a great perspective on the social history and development of our local community, and we’d love to hear your experiences and memories of the shops, cafes and social life in Headingley over the years.
In our church cafe, our volunteers will serve delicious homemade refreshments and drinks on a Pay As You Feel basis from 1000 to 1200.
Please come in either through the church garden from Otley Road up the front steps of the main church door or via our fully accessible entrance at the middle door on Chapel Street.
Timings & Tours
- Saturday 07 September:
- 1000-1300 , Refreshments 1000-1200
Location & directions
1-3 Chapel Street, Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6 3HZ
- Directions:
- The church is a large Victorian stone church, located in its own garden at the corner of Otley Road and Chapel Street in the centre of Headingley. It is directly opposite the Arndale Centre. Access to the church is either from Otley Rd through the front garden or at the middle door on Chapel Street. There are many buses going to and from the centre of Leeds, with bus stops outside Sainsbury's and on the opposite side of Otley Rd. The 91 bus travelling East/West across the city stops in North Lane, just round the corner from the church. Public car parking is available at the Taps on North Lane or for shoppers, on the roof of the Arndale Centre. Time limited parking is allowed in the streets around the church but is subject to high demand. Chapel Street is a one-way street accessed from the Otley Road.
- Contact on day:
- Christine Andrews
- Telephone number:
- +447949988004
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Pre-booking not required
Accessibility details
There are two spaces for disabled parking in Chapel Street next to the church but these are in considerable demand. Disabled access to the church is via the Chapel Street entrance - main church entrance has steps at the door. Chapel Street is one way, turning up the street from the Otley Road. Level access to the church is via the middle door on Chapel St which opens onto an accessible ramp suitable for wheelchair or pram access. This gives access to the cafe area, the church and toilet facilities, including an adapted toilet and baby changing area.
