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Join us for Holy Week 2025

Palm Sunday

Join us for our Palm Sunday Explorer' Service at 10:30am in the Rose Hall.

Childrens' Easter Craft

Come along and join in with our Children’s Easter craft activity from 10:30am to midday in Hall 1 

1:00pm: Come along for a short Together@1 service in the Chapel


2:30pm: Join in with our Lent Bible Study in the Chapel

Silent Easter Vigil

We will be holding a silent Easter vigil drop-in in the Chapel between 3:00pm and 5:00pm.


Come along and spend some quiet time.

Maundy Thursday

1:00pm: Come along for a short Together@1 service in the Chapel


7:30pm: Join us for our Maundy Thursday Holy Communion in the Chapel

Good Friday

Join us for a Churches Together open-air service at 10:00am.


The service will be held outside Sainsburys in Poole, followed by drinks and hot cross buns at The Spire. 

Easter Sunday

5:30am: Wake up early for our Churches Together Sunrise Service at Sandbanks carpark (far West end)


10:30am: Join us for our Easter Sunday Holy Communion service in the Rose Hall

Who We Are

The Spire is situated on the High Street in the centre of Poole.

We believe that our calling is to maintain a prayerful, worshipping, mission focussed Christian environment in the centre of Poole – not confined by bricks and mortar. 

Following the example of Jesus – we offer to stand alongside the bruised and the vulnerable, the excluded and the neglected, the familiar and the stranger – to be open in service to all who come through our doors - and to provide a safe place where people can come – and know that God loves them. 

View our welcome leaflet

All our activities are underpinned by prayer and worship

Our usual pattern of worship on Sundays at 10.30am in the Rose Hall upstairs (lift available) is:

  • 1st Sunday of the month: Praise & Worship with our Filipino Community including lunch
  • 2nd Sunday of the month: Preaching Service with Holy Communion
  • 3rd Sunday of the month: Explorers Family Service
  • 4th and 5th Sunday of the month: Preaching Service  
View our preaching plan

Activities

Together @ 1

20 minutes of prayer and worship in the chapel. Weekdays at 1pm in the chapel.

All welcome.

Prayer Meeting

Monday prayer meeting at 10am.

This prayer meeting is open to all as we pray for all that happens at The Spire.

Bible Study

Join us for our Fellowship Bible study on Thursdays.

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Do all the good you can, 
By all the means you can, 
In all the ways you can, 
In all the places you can, 
At all the times you can,
  To all the people you can, 
As long as ever you can.’

John Wesley

Children and Young People

We do all we can to provide for children and young people in our Sunday services, either through all-age worship, Explorers groups or the monthly Explorers’ Service.


The Circuit Youth group, GOD SQUAD, meets at The Spire on alternate Sunday evenings in term-time and attendance averages 8-10. Snooker, table tennis, table football as well as chess and board games are popular pursuits.


We also regularly undertake art and craft projects. At each meeting, we also spend some focussed time considering Christian themes or teaching. Sometimes we lead these sessions "in-house", but also welcome visitors to lead our "God Slot"

More about God Squad

A little of the history

Methodism came to Poole in 1779 when the first service was held in a hall at the Wimborne Rd end of what is now Tatnam Rd. The first mission chapel was built in 1794 but was shut when Poole Methodist Church was built out of local Purbeck and Bath stone between 1878 and 1880 in the centre of Poole High Street. The building, although Victorian, is of faux-gothic architecture – with a distinguishable large spire and was built to house 1,000 worshippers.


In the summer of 2009, the church was closed for safety reasons and an application was made to renovate and extend the building – in order to provide a Christian centre for the community of Poole to use for worship, service and mission throughout the week. It would become, not only the centre of Poole’s continuing Methodist presence – but also a community facility relevant to Poole in the 21st century – and the congregations of the five Methodist Churches in Poole amalgamated to make it happen.


In 2015, Wesley’s Café was established on the ground floor of the original church and a new extension (nominated for the 2016 Carbuncle Cup for the ugliest new building in the UK!) was added at the rear, with the church re-branding itself as ‘The Spire.’


The extension provided a hall with kitchen, community meeting rooms, office spaces and facilities available to the public on the ground floor and - via stairs and a lift – more halls, kitchens and community rooms upstairs. The upper part of the original church provided a multi-purpose large space (the Rose Hall) with a stage and with tiered seating. It is used for shows, concerts and large celebratory events – as well as Sunday worship. The beautiful original stained glass Rose Window has been retained.


A chapel has been created downstairs, which is available to the public and kept as a quiet room without a lock on the door – for personal devotion. On the wall is a piece of artwork made from roof nails from the 1779 Methodist hall and mounted on a wooden plaque fashioned from one of the 1878 church pews.


Years of prayer, planning and fundraising produced a modern and flexible seven days a week building which is both available to the community and is mission focussed.