Elim Bible College Swimming Pool, Nantwich

Elim Pentecostal Church in Nantwich is part of the wider Elim Pentecostal Church movement, a UK-based Pentecostal denomination founded in 1915 by Welsh evangelist George Jeffreys during the early Pentecostal revival in Britain and Ireland. Elim now has hundreds of congregations across the UK and worldwide.

The Nantwich congregation is located at Regents Park on London Road and today functions as a community church offering regular Sunday worship, youth activities, support groups and other services to the local area. The site itself is more than just a church building—it includes a range of facilities and small businesses known collectively as Regents Business Park, where the church and local enterprises co-exist to serve the community.

Historically, this location also played a role in ministerial training. From 1987 until 2009, the Elim movement’s residential theological college—originally called Elim Bible College and later known as Regents Theological College—was based in Nantwich before relocating to Malvern, Worcestershire. The campus included classrooms, accommodation and other facilities to support students training for leadership and ministry within Elim and beyond.

One of the more unusual features of the old college site was its indoor swimming pool, built to serve students and staff while the college was active. By the early 2010s this pool had fallen into disuse and was no longer regularly open to the public. In 2012, a local swimming tuition company, FineSwimming, undertook a renovation project worth around £60,000, intending to refurbish the 15 m × 7 m pool and operate it for lessons and group use under a long-term lease, with the potential to buy the facility from Elim. Despite these plans, the pool has remained largely underused or closed in recent years, and it remains a known but dormant part of the Regents Park site.