Priory Methodist Church, Bedford

The Priory Methodist Church on Newnham Avenue opened on 5 June 1969 and replaced both a small church that had been on the site since 1953 (before that there was a tin mission hut dating from 1940) and the 18th century St Paul’s Methodist Church on Harpur Street. At some point it is said an apparition was witnessed here. The following extract is taken from an article by Andrew Watt entitled ‘15 ghost sightings in Bedford’, which was published in Bedfordshire on Sunday (10 March 2015). ‘At the Methodist Church, along Newnham Avenue, a witness claims to have seen a well dressed man creeping along the back of the church. The apparition walked through a wall, leaving a thin veil of smoke behind him. An earlier signing described the man wearing tweed clothing.’