1881 - Methodist Chapel - Cropredy, Oxfordshire
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N 52° 07.055 W 001° 19.049
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The Methodist Chapel on Chapel Lane, Cropredy, was built in 1881.
Waymark Code: WM12DR8
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/07/2020
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"The Methodist Chapel was built in 1881 following the Wesley revival and remains a focal point of Village affairs. Prior to 1881 services were held in the adjacent property (formerly the Post Office). Enthusiastic Methodists raised the money to build the spacious and attractive edifice we now see. There is a strong bond of unity between Church and Chapel worshippers."
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"In 1739, out of 267 families in Cropredy parish only eleven (3 per cent.) were dissenters, possibly all in Wardington except for a family of Quakers in Claydon.
In Cropredy township the growth of Methodism was much slower than in Bourton, where Anglican difficulties were far greater: in 1808 there was only one poor dissenting family, and no meeting-place for dissenters; in 1811 Cropredy and Bourton together were said to contain 15 dissenting families, described by the vicar as Methodist, most of which may be assigned to Bourton. The movement made headway there in the next few years, for in 1819 George Nobbs's dwelling-house was licensed as a meetingplace, and in 1822 a Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Cropredy, standing on land owned by the Hadland family of Clattercote, was registered. In 1851 it contained 160 seats, with a morning Sunday school of 45 on the day of the census, an afternoon service attended by 73 adults and 56 children, and an evening service attended by 90 adults and 10 children. The incumbent reported in 1866 that one-fifth of the village called themselves dissenters, and in 1878 that they numbered 'about 70', but that some of them occasionally went to church, and that many families were of divided allegiance.
A new chapel with Sunday school was opened in 1881. The village never had a resident minister. In 1964 arrangements for serving the chapel were in the hands of the Methodist minister of Banbury."
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