Both buildings have a variety of rooms available to hire, from small meeting rooms to large halls. Walcot has also been used a concert venue on many occasions. For details please contact the lettings secretary for the appropriate building.
Chapel House, originally the minister's house next door to Walcot, is now available as student accomodation. Please contact the church stewards for more details.
Walcot Chapel was built in 1815 and is a Grade II listed building.
The interior of the church was updated in 1991 to provide a more flexible worship space (the altar table and pulpit are all movable to allow different activities to take place).
Downstairs the building has a large hall, well-equipped kitchen and a number of small meeting rooms.
The organ dates from the 1790s and was originally built for the Assembly Rooms in Bath. It was installed in Walcot in 1818 (a few years before the Methodist Conference voted to allow organs to be installed in churches), and is believed to be the oldest organ in continuous use in a Methodist church anywhere in the world.
The organ was recently restored and upgraded to provide an instrument that will continue to serve into the 21st century.
Carved angel on the organ casing.
Interesting features: The windows in the church were replaced in the 1930s-40s, and many of them are dedicated in memory of church members. One of the windows has a medal to commemorate Denis Frazer - a member of the church who was killed at the age of 22 while working with an ambulance unit in France in 1944.
People with short legs may like to try out the pews at the back of the balcony, which were built for the pupils of Kingswood School, in the days when they marched down to the hill to attend services at Walcot.
The rose window at Claremont was designed by Victoria Blight and was created in 1991 by students at the City of Bath College. The window depicts the spirit of Pentecost entering the centre of the rose window with the spirit of God in creation being symbolised in the outer circles.