The OLD MEETING HOUSE, Colegate Street, was erected in 1693 by the
Independents, a congregation of which body had existed in Norwich since
the Commonwealth. They had originally assembled in a brewery in St.
Edmund’s, and afterwards in the “west granary” of St. Andrew’s Hall. Mr.
Bridge, the first pastor, who was incumbent of St. George’s, Tombland,
seceded from the church in the reign of James II., and sat in the
Westminster Assembly of Divines. The building is a large structure of
red brick, fronted with four Corinthian pilasters. It contains sittings
for 700 persons, and has spacious schoolrooms adjacent. The Rev. John
Hallett is the present minister.
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PRINCE’S STREET CHAPEL (Independent) was erected in 1819. It is a
handsome building of white brick, and has been enlarged and almost
rebuilt at a cost of £2000, under the superintendence of Mr. Boardman,
architect, of this city. It will now accommodate 1000 persons. The new
front presents an elevation in the modern Italian or composite style,
with seven windows of ornamental design. The roof has been raised and
new windows inserted, eight on each side. New galleries have been
erected with cast-iron columns, and ornamental iron front. A new apse
has been added, and a vestry or retiring room at the back. The whole
interior has been reseated with plain open benches. The entrances,
staircase, hall, and avenues, are laid with tessellated tiles. At a
short distance from the chapel there is a spacious schoolroom, with class
rooms on each side. The Rev. G. S. Barrett is the present minister.
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THE CHAPEL IN THE FIELD, (Independent) opened in 1858, is a handsome
edifice with two imposing spiral turrets. Its arched interior has a fine
effect, increased by the introduction of four painted windows in the
apse. The building affords sittings for 900 persons. Adjoining are
spacious schoolrooms in a similar style of architecture. The Rev. Philip
Colborne is the present minister.
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THE TABERNACLE (Lady Huntingdon’s Connexion) is situate near St. Martin’s
at Palace. It was built by the Calvinistic Methodists, under Mr.
Wheatley, in 1772, at a cost of £1752. In 1775, the Tabernacle was sold
to the Countess of Huntingdon, who visited Norwich in the following year,
and vested the building in trust with four clergymen and three laymen of
the same connexion to appoint ministers whose preaching and sentiments
are according to the articles and homilies of the church of England. It
contains 1000 sittings. The Rev. Burford Hooke is the present minister.
There is also another chapel of the same connexion on the Dereham Road,
of which the Rev. John Joseph James Kempster is the minister.
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