| | | | | | | B |St. Nicolas V|W.H. Connor, |The Bishop | 300| 5220| 566| all | | M.A. 1876| | | | | | | | | | | | B |St. Paul V|R.B. Burges, |Trustees | 300| 15100| 1200| 600 | | M.A. 1867| | | | | | | | | | | | B |St. Peter V|R. Dell, M.A. |The Bishop | 310| 2500| 1500| all | | 1870| | | | | | | | | | | | B |St. Philip R|H.B. Bowlby, |The Bishop | 949| 2885| 1750| 560 | | M.A. 1875| | | | | | | | | | | | B |St. Saviour V|M. Parker |Trustees | 380| 5000| 730| all | | 1874| | | | | | | | | | | | B |St. Stephen V|P. Reynolds, |The Bishop | 250| 12560| 1150| 700 | | LL.B. 1854| | | | | | | | | | | | B |St. Thomas R|T.D. Halsted, |Trustees | 650| 11000| 2100|1500 | | M.A. 1870| | | | | --+-----------------+---------------+------------+----+------+-----+----- NON-CONFORMISTS.[37] The earliest Nonconformist place of worship, of which any record remains, was “The Old Meeting,” which, with its graveyard, has so recently as the year 1882 been removed for the enlargement of the railway station in New Street. As old Birmingham was not a corporate town it did not come within the provisions of The Five-Mile Act (A.D. 1665), and was naturally the resort of persecuted Nonconformists from the neighbouring boroughs. On the first Declaration of Indulgence put forth by Charles the Second in 1672, rooms were licensed for public worship, and in 1687 eleven dissenters bought a plot of land in what was then called Philip Street, and built a meeting house, finished in 1689, the year of the passing of The Toleration Act. As the total cost of land and building was only £220, it could not have accommodated many hearers, and we find that another meeting house, called the “Lower Meeting House,” was built in Deritend in a yard which was until lately called “Meeting House Yard,” now taken into the continuation of Milk Street into Deritend. This second chapel was injured in the Sacheverell Riots in 1715, and afterwards the congregation removed, in 1732, to what was formerly the “New Meeting,” in Moor Street, where they remained until the last day of the year 1861.