Emmanuel Church on Vounog Hill, in Pen-y-ffordd, was built in 1959. Plans are now well advanced to extend the church towards the front to provide a welcome area and meeting room together with more up-to-date facilities.
Land to the rear of the church has now been sold and, together with attached land formerly owned by Flintshire County Council, will be used to provide several starter homes.
We hope that the church extension will create a welcome and flexible space and will help us to further our work in the village. We will post news of the project here as it progresses.
HISTORY OF EMMANUEL CHURCH IN PEN-Y-FFORDD
A history of the current church, together with its two predecessors, was produced in 1993 (author unknown). Extracts from this leaflet follow.
“On January 20th 1881 the first Anglican Service was conducted in a converted shippen, on the site of the present chip shop in Chester Road, Penyffordd. Mr Francis Aylmer Frost began at eighteen years of age to do important Church work in the Parish of Hope where his father, Mr Meadows Frost of St John’s House, Chester (owner of the kings Mills at Ellesmere Port), had his country house in Penyffordd, known as Meadowlea.”
“After assisting the Rev. John Rowlands, the then Rector of Hope (who was his brother-in-law) in introducing a brance of the Church of England Temperance Society, he began mission work at Penyffordd, and set up, entirely at his own expense, the little Mission building……He conducted two services, preached two sermons and carried on two Sunday schools each week…..The church must have been growing in strength because in 1882 the Hope Church members agreed to an expenditure of £240.8s.11d on Penyffordd Mission Church.
