Metcalfe Street Methodist Church

In 1857, the Bible Christian Church congregation was established. The meetings were first held in the Sons of Temperance Hall, and the first minister was Reverend John Pinch. For the next few years, services were held at a variety of locations around the village.

In 1863, a church was constructed on the north side of Metcalfe Street. This church was altered twice (in the 1870s and 1880s) as the congregation grew. Eventually, the congregation had outgrown the Metcalfe site, and, at the same time, industry in the form of the Pedlar People Factory was encroaching on its land.

It was decided to secure a new site, and in 1912, the cornerstone was laid for a new and larger church at King and Charles Streets. A few months later, the King Street Church was completed and formally dedicated. Rev. John Harris, who was the minister at the time of construction in 1863, had the unique distinction of having preached at the closing services of the church fifty years later, on March 23, 1913.

The Metcalfe Street Church was demolished a few years later.