St. Paul's United Church

St. Paul’s United Church stands on Main Street South at the corner of John Street, a block south of the Four Corners in downtown Brampton. It is a massive cruciform church of rusticated Credit Valley brownstone, with two towers on its west front and a slate roof. The city’s heritage designation by-law of 1985 names its architects as W. H. Mallory & Son of Toronto and records that it opened on 6 February 1886.

The congregation began as Primitive Methodist. The by-law dates it to 1834, when William Lawson and John Elliott established it, meeting at first in Elliott’s home and then in a church built in the 1840s at Chapel Street and Queen Street East. Through the church unions of 1884 and 1925, St. Paul’s became a congregation of the United Church of Canada.

Sunday worship is at ten in the morning, upstairs in Sanderson Hall, entered from the parking-lot door on John Street.

What to expect

Greeters meet visitors at the top of the stairs from the John Street entrance. The service runs from ten to about eleven, with music, scripture readings and a message, and is followed by refreshments and fellowship in the Upper Room. Children's Church, for ages 1 to 12, runs during the service, and the youth group meets afterwards at eleven. The hall is air-conditioned.

What United Church members believe and how they worship