A very warm welcome to members, friends and visitors to the website of Emmanuel Church.

If you are visiting Ilfracombe, please do come along and join us for Sunday worship (10.30 a.m) or to any of our special events or concerts during the week - we will be very pleased to see you.

Emmanuel Church is a united congregation made up of members of the Methodist and United Reformed Churches. Its present membership is 53, although the total community number is  closer to 90.
Our minister is the Revd. Barbara Bennett, her e-mail address is....
 revbarbara@meva22.fsnet.co.uk

Emmanuel Church is part of the Ilfracombe and Barnstaple Methodist Circuit, and this pastorate also includes the Methodist Church at Combe Martin and the Methodists at Lynton, who worship at the United Reformed Church there. Until the 28th June, the Methodist Church at Woolacombe was also part of this pastorate, but has now sadly been closed. The Circuit is part of the Plymouth and Exeter District.

Emmanuel Church is also part of the South Western Synod of the United Reformed Church. It is part of a group of local churches which includes the United Reformed Churches in Barnstaple, Bickington, Bideford Braunton, Bude, Lynton and Muddiford.

There are two retired ministers living in Ilfracombe – The Revd Jim Bates (Methodist) and The Revd Margaret Howard (United Reformed). There is one local preacher within the pastorate -  Mr Martin Reardon. Mrs Cecily Challacombe and Miss Una Parsons have now retired.

The Church stands at the corner of Wilder Road and Avenue Road, opposite the Landmark Theatre and adjacent to the Dilkhusa Grand Hotel. The entrance to Emmanuel Church is on Avenue Road with access for the disabled.  Emmanuel has a new flat panel sound system together with an induction loop for the hard of hearing.