Facilities and features
Accessibility
We have accessible toilets on the ground floor, in our church hall, and in the creche room/.
We have baby changing facilities in both the main ground floor toilet area, as well as in our ground floor church hall.
Limited car [arking for a few cars on the church forecourt.Otherwose there is either free or pay and display accessible parking in the streets around the church.
Ground floor, woth wode access for wheel chairs or other special needs.
Limited forecourt parking and local accessible parking in surrounding streets.
Side entrance alongside main fromt door.
Large print provided for all main services
Our Building
Grade 2 listed.
St Matthews has just been awarded Silver in the Eco Church programme and is committed to environmental living and practice.
Music and Worship
University bell ringers use our tower for regular bell ringing.
We hold occasional concerts for different orgainsiations or with our venue hired for this. Please keep an ey eon the chruch website and notices for information.
We have a fine organ, which alongside our regular music group and worship band, is still used in sunday worship.
Our sunday services feature a worship band, with many different members of our chruch family being involved in supporting our music.
Groups, Courses and Activities
We have regular youth group meetings for 11 to 18, run and organised by our Children, Famileus and Youth Minister.
We run the Alpha Course each year starting in January.
Kings Kids: We run an excellent parent and toddlers group in term time on Tuesday mornings.
St Matthews Playgroup: We run an excellent pre-school Playgroup every day except Tuesday's in term-time.
See our website for details.
Help for Visitors
Please ask for the wifi code when in the chruch buiulding.
Other Features
We aim to use Fairtrade goods and produce whenever we can. We serve Fairtrade coffe and tea after services.
In our main 10.30 services, all the service os projected onto a big screen at the front of church with smaller screens aroudn the church.
We have speakers and a loop hearing aid system.
We have an excellent, modern and accessible hall for hire, for events, parties, meetings etc. Please contact the church office for details.