The Story
Begins
Our story starts
in the early 1930's when plans were under way to build a new church in
the rapidly growing area to the west of Worthing.
Worthing Congregational Church in Shelley
Road was the only church of that denomination in the area and so
worshippers living in the west Worthing area probably had to walk into
town - a distance of 2-3 miles.
Worthing Congregational Church, Shelley Road. c1903
( Photograph reproduced with kind permission of Rob Blann.
- taken from his book "Edwardian Worthing" )
Goring Congregational Church was planned for the late
1930's but the war intervened and the new Church wasn't constituted
until 1940, with the building being delayed until 1947. The present
church building was opened in 1961.
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