1892 - Former Wesleyan Church - Grimston, Leicestershire
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N 52° 47.431 W 000° 59.013
30U E 635970 N 5850873
Former Wesleyan church on Main Street, Grimston, built 1892.
Waymark Code: WMW67E
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/15/2017
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Former Wesleyan church on Main Street, Grimston, built 1892.
"Wesleyan Methodists are first recorded on the 1829 Return of Religious Meeting Places, which counted them at ten. The 1851 Religious Census recorded the existence of a chapel built in 1839, containing 44 sittings, 20 of them free. On census day, a congregation of 70 was recorded for one service, held in the evening. This was unusually high, however, as average attendance was marked at just 20.
After 1851, the only other information about Wesleyan Methodists is provided by Kelly’s Directory of 1895, which recorded that a chapel had been built (or rebuilt) in 1892. This stood at the extreme north-eastern end of the village. The building, now converted to a house, is still there today"
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