Blackshaw Head Methodist Church - MCH00157
Blackshaw Chapel, Blackshawhead
"The church at the heart of the community"
We aim to serve the local community in whatever ways we can, as both a spiritual and a practical resource.
The chapel provides a useful suite of community rooms which we make available for community events such as the village fete and local history club exhibitions, and we hire out space for both regular clubs and meetings and one-off events and private parties.
The chapel also hosts Blackshaw Parish Council's meetings and provides a performance space for Colden School.
In the porch is our Christmas manger, which is well-used all year round as the village's collection point for donations for two local food-banks.
The chapel is a spiritual base for celebrating and remembering all the landmarks of personal and civic life, and provides further ministry to the community through its beautiful graveyard."
Mick Chatham
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Colden - KST00541
Blackshaw Chapel, Colden, Moorland, Places
Looking across to the road to Blackshaw. Centre of the picture is the roof of the New Delight Inn with #high Street just beyond it, to the right up the hill is Murgatshaw Farm just before Shay bend.
Ken Stott
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Blackshaw Head Methodist Chapel - ALC09025
Blackshaw Chapel, Blackshaw Head, Blackshawhead, Gravestones, Graveyard, Methodist Church, Places
Blackshawhead Chapel was built in 1815 by the Methodists of nearby Heptonstall to serve this hilltop village.
The Chapel was extended a few years later by the addition of a Sunday School, which for many years was the only form of education available to village children.The building has undergone several renovations, and today provides a place for the church to meet and worship, and also a suite of rooms which the community can use. The building is being gradually renovated, as funding permits, to improve the quality of the facilities available. We have recently refitted the upstairs hall and installed a stairlift, and renovated the ground floor rooms to make them energy efficient. From Blackshaw Head Church web-site.
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