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Melbourne Hall was founded by Dr. F.B. Meyer, over one hundred years ago. It is an inner-city church situated in the Highfields district of Leicester and surrounded by Victorian houses. Dr Meyer had the building designed in the shape of a lantern, signifying the desire to bring the light of the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ to the people of Leicester.

Today that same purpose is shown by the many forms of outreach, which are listed within this site.

As a Church we believe in,

The full and verbal inspiration of all the Old Testament and New Testament scriptures as originally given and of these alone, being in themselves the Word of God, without error and wholly reliable in both fact and doctrine, their final authority and perpetual sufficiency in all matters of faith and practice.

The unity of the Godhead and the divine co-equality of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the sovereignty of God in creation, providence and redemption.

The utter depravity of human nature in consequence of the fall, and the necessity for regeneration.

The true and proper Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ; His virgin birth; His real and perfect manhood; the authority of His teaching, and the infallibility of all His utterances; His work of atonement for sinners of mankind by His vicarious sufferings and death; His bodily resurrection and His ascension into Heaven; and His present priestly inter- cession for His people at the right hand of the Father.

The justification of the sinner solely by faith, through the atoning merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

The work of the Holy Spirit as essential for a true spiritual understanding of the scriptures; for regeneration, conversion, and sanctification, and for ministry and worship.

The ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper as being Instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ, but not in Baptism as conveying regenerating grace, neither in the Lord's Supper as being a sacrifice for sin nor involving any change in the bread and wine

The personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ in glory.

The resurrection of the body; the judgement of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, with the eternal blessedness of the righteous and the eternal punishment of the wicked.

The Universal Church, the body of which Christ is the Head, embracing all the redeemed called by God through the Gospel, born of the Spirit and justified by faith; the local Church, comprising such believers, as the expression of the Universal Church; the fellowship between such Churches, manifesting the unity of the Body of Christ.