A fun-loving Reverend has set Lord's day service in a pub so that attendees can "relax".

Congregators can now attend the Church building of England weekly service at the role room at The Mosley Arms, in Bolton for a more "informal" worship environment.

The rooms holds 100 people, with concluding weeks mass attracting anybody from babies to those in their 80's.

The Rev Ben Woodfield, who led terminal calendar week'southward gathering, said: "Our aim is for people to relax.

"Information technology's very informal with lively songs, interactive talks and grouping discussions."

It came about after landlady Bernie Bates was approached by a pal about using the pub for worship.

The unique part room tin can concur up to 100 people

Bernie said its ten.30am weekly service appeals to people reluctant to become to a traditional church or who do non have admission to ane, The Sun reports.

She added: "Our first service drew in people of all ages — from babes in arms to adults in their 80s."

The pub'due south owner, brewery Joseph Holt, give up the room for gratis.

Mr Woodfield co-leads the ­Antioch Network — an organisation aimed at setting up contemporary Anglican services in urban communities.

The pub'due south owner, brewery Joseph Holt, give up the room for free.

He said: "The Mosley Artillery is in the centre of the community and the perfect place to get-go a regular Sunday service."

This comes just weeks after a spooky church building was snapped upwardly as a home and even comes with the ghost of a bloodthirsty blackness hound, co-ordinate to legend.

Business firm-hunting horror fans had a bidding war at an sale for the stone-congenital chapel which is built side by side to a graveyard.

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Information technology was once surrounded by woodland when it was built in the 17th century - and legend says it is fifty-fifty haunted by a baying hound after claims a sometime government minister heard its blood-curdling howls.

Folklore has it that a onetime minister saw the swell black animal before striking it betwixt the eyes with his Bible.

The property is believed to be haunted by "the black hound of the underworld" in Cwmbran, South Wales.

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