Kingsland church history in Colchester

Churches in Lexden, Stanway and Tiptree

Kingsland church in Colchester was built in 1884 by some local Quakers and was known as Lexden village hall. It established itself as a place of worship and temperance hall and ran an adult school on Sundays and a people's bank. A full-time missioner was appointed in 1927. In 1971 it became the Lexden Evangelical church after Neil’s predecessor was appointed. In the 1980’s the church became much more vibrant, growing steadily as it adopted a lively, informal, contemporary worship style and became known as Kingsland Church.

In 1991 a second congregation was formed, Gosbecks’ Christian Fellowship, which is now an independent church known as Lifehouse. Gosbecks planted another congregation in Tiptree in 1998, which remains part of the Kingsland group. The growth in Lexden continued and in 1996 a congregation was established in Stanway.

A few years later we started a second Sunday morning service, and continued to grow and built our new building on the same site in 2005. In 2010 we moved again to much larger premises, to the top floor of the Lexden Centre, on the corner of London Road and Straight Road, above the Aldi supermarket. The new facilities includes a 400-seater worship area, large hall, seven meeting rooms, office accommodation and a large café area for the church and local community.

Kings Café is open Monday to Friday from 10am – 4pm, drop in for a coffee and chat, a light lunch or a piece of cake. It’s a great place to meet friends!