{"id":95,"date":"2021-04-05T18:53:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/overmethodistchurch.org.uk\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2021-04-05T18:53:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:53:31","slug":"the-miniature-chapel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/overmethodistchurch.org.uk\/?page_id=95","title":{"rendered":"The Miniature Chapel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Linda Smith, wife of Church Steward Colin, has built a 1\/12th scale model of Over Methodist Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is an accurate model of the Chapel building as it was before the 1990 renovations,
but set in an era when oil lamps were used to light the Chapel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linda has hand builit all the detail into the Chapel, including all the pews and even the ‘harmonium’ organ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To celebrate its completion, a Dolls House Festival was held in May 2011 at which the Miniature Chapel was the centrepiece.
The event was a huge success, receiving enormous support from the local community, and a total of \u00a31430 was raised which was divided between Methodist Relief & Development Fund and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children (Cardiac Wing) – where Colin & Linda’s son Benjamin received life saving heart surgery as an infant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harvest Festival at the Miniature Chapel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A video of the construction of the Miniature Chapel: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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