Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire: with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county.Coleman, Thomas
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Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire: with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county.
Coleman, Thomas
Clergy -- England -- Northamptonshire; Independent churches -- England -- Northamptonshire; Puritans -- England -- Northamptonshire
This place is extra parochial, the property of Sir Culling Eardley
Eardley, Bart., situated six miles north of Peterborough. The Gospel was
introduced here about twenty years ago, by the Wesleyan Methodists; the
preaching services were then conducted in a room of the house now
occupied by the minister. In 1836 Sir Culling built a neat and spacious
building, which is used both as a daily school-room and Chapel. For
several years the preaching services were conducted by the master. A
congregation having been thus collected, and Sunday-schools opened, it
was considered to be a promising sphere for regular ministerial labour;
and accordingly, in 1843, Mr. D. Blellock was stationed here as a Home
Missionary. After the removal of Mr. Blellock in 1846, Mr. Alexander
Yuill was settled here, who, after a few months of acceptable and useful
labour, fell asleep in Jesus. In January, 1849, Mr. J. B. Bishop, the
present pastor, was invited to settle over the congregation worshipping
in this place and in Peakirk. Through Mr. Bishop's instrumentality a
Christian Church was formed, March 30th, 1849, numbering thirteen
members. The following places are connected with this station, viz.:
Peakirk, Crowland (Lincolnshire), Glinton, and New Borough. There are
now twenty-seven Church members, seventy-five Sabbath-school children,
and one Day-school.
3.--MIDDLETON.
In the year 1844, a neat and commodious village Chapel, capable of
seating near two hundred hearers, was erected here, at a cost of more
than L300; and this year (1852) school-rooms have been added, which have
cost nearly L100. It is supplied generally in the afternoon and evening
of the Sabbath, and there is in connexion with it a Sabbath-school
containing nearly one hundred children.
APPENDIX.
I.
The following statements will show the amount of money that has been
expended on the Chapels, School-rooms, Ministers' Houses, &c., in
connexion with the Independent denomination in Northamptonshire, during
little more than the last quarter of a century.
L. _s._ _d._
NORTHAMPTON--
Castle Hill--New School-rooms and improvements
in the Chapel, 1825-1852 1,400 0 0
King Street--New School-rooms 336 6 5
Commercial Street--New Chapel, galleries and
organ, new School-rooms, 1829-1851 3,800 0 0
ROWELL--Improvements in the Chapel, 1852 800 0 0
KETTERING--New School-rooms and improvements
in the Chapel, 1849. 1,400 0 0
HARBOROUGH--New Chapel and new School-room,
1844-1850 3,230 0 0
ASHLEY--Improvements in the Chapel and
Minister's House, 1827-1832 400 0 0
WELLINGBOROUGH--
Cheese Lane--New School-rooms, 1850 300 0 0
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