Memorials of Shrewsbury: being a concise description of the town and its environs, adapted as a general guide for the information of visitors and residentsPidgeon, Henry
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Memorials of Shrewsbury: being a concise description of the town and its environs, adapted as a general guide for the information of visitors and residents
Pidgeon, Henry
Shrewsbury (England) -- Guidebooks
Seceded from the above society in 1827, and built a place for worship in
Castle Foregate, which was opened April 9, 1830. They retain, however,
the doctrines of Particular or Calvinistic Baptists, as professed by the
former society.
THE WESLEYAN METHODISTS
Assemble on St. John’s hill, in a building erected in 1804, and which was
enlarged and decorated in 1825. Galleries surround the interior, in
which is a small organ. The pulpit stands in the middle aisle.
A small building erected at Spring Gardens, Castle Foregate (by the
proprietor of the land) was opened Feb. 26, 1826, in connexion with this
society. The service is free, and the place is used at certain hours on
the Sunday as a school.
THE METHODIST NEW CONNEXION
appear to claim a mutual relationship to the founder of Methodism with
the Wesleyans, and retain the doctrines, ordinances, and general
discipline common to that body, from which they differ only in the form
of church government and professed dissent from the Church of England.
This society formed a congregation here in 1833, and in Jan. 1834, an
edifice for their service was commenced near the Old Tower, Murivance,
which was opened June 13 in the same year.
The exterior is handsome, having two entrances with a Doric portico to
each, and is divided into three parts, viz. a centre and two wings,
formed with Corinthian pilasters, frieze, and cornice; the centre
terminates with a pediment, and the wings with a broken blocking and
Grecian tiles. The interior is without galleries, and arranged on rather
a novel plan; the middle is occupied by two rows of pews, with a row on
each of the sides which ascend gradually from the floor, and thereby
afford great economy of space.
Two ends of the building being flanked by dwellings, light is admitted
from the side portions, but a good effect, notwithstanding, is produced
from the blank walls, which display arches and plain pilasters supporting
a frieze and cornice.
The ground at the back declining considerably from the street, spacious
school-rooms, a vestry, and a house for the door-keeper, are formed
underneath the building, which is calculated to contain 700 persons, and
cost £1500.
THE WELSH CALVINISTIC METHODISTS
meet in a neat structure in Hill’s Lane, erected by a subscription on a
portion of the site of a former edifice, and was opened for worship Dec.
25, 1826. The service is in the Ancient British language.
THE PRIMITIVE METHODISTS
introduced themselves into this town in 1822, by preaching in the streets
and suburbs. The place originally built in Castle-court, Castle-street,
for the Sandemanian Baptists (a society in this town nearly extinct), was
purchased for them, and they commenced service there June 4th, 1826.
THE QUAKERS
have a convenient meeting-house, fitted up with much simplicity, and
neatness, on St. John’s Hill, to which a small burial ground is attached.
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL
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