Art and Craft Methodist Church
The Antiquarian bookshop only opens on a saturday, so can hardly be called a bookshop, its surroundings though are fabulous, Art & Craft decor in this large room of the Methodist Church, stacked high with books, magazines and prints. This beautiful church is redundant now, though a lot of money had been spent on its building but it came on the market in the 1990s. A developer brought it with the intention of knocking down the church and building flats and a car park on the site. Luckily the property was saved by sticking a listed building order on it at the last moment so it was returned to the market. So the present owner bought it and filled it with books, he also had to put a new roof on it as well, it must have been used as a schoolroom in its time there are small rooms leading off it.
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