11815 extension to St Nicholas Churchyard. By the early 19th century the graveyard was deemed to be full and in 1815 the parishioners drew up a petition to purchase land ...
Early 19th century extension to St Nicholas Churchyard.
1 Built 1740 to replace a meeting house of 1720 which had been destroyed by rioters; a new meeting house was erected nearby c1972 and the former building has been ...
A Society of Friends' Meeting House, which was originally built in the Post Medieval period. It was later converted into a house. It is situated at Hartshill Green.
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It is not clear why the Benedictine nuns chose Princethorpe in Warwickshire. The site certainly had (and still has) attractive features: it was raised up, surrounded by ...
As I have mentioned in other postings on this site, in the years following the Second World War there seemed to be a frenzy of demolition from which no building ...
In part one, I introduced the Townsends, setting a little context for the family and the collection of their records now held at Warwickshire County Record Office. In this section, ...
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So within eight years of Rev. John Craig’s death the Priory had changed out of all recognition. The grounds had been sold and houses, including those lining ...
Christopher George Squirrell was born in Ipswich around 1844, where he followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming a watchmaker.
He had however, been preaching since he was 16 and at ...
Bedworth Chapel
The first Primitive Methodist Chapel in Bedworth was built in 1830 in King Street near the bridge over the railway, with seats for 120 people. Details were recorded in ...
Primitive Methodists were meeting in a barn at the time of the religious census of 1851; the form was filled in by ‘Precher’ Charles Adams a brickmaker from Stockton. The ...
There is evidence of a group of Primitive Methodists meeting in Priors Hardwick in 1849, but it was not recorded in the 1851 religious census and ceased at the end ...
1 In 1850 there was a Friends Meeting House in Brailes, said to have been erected in the time of their founder, George Fox.
2 The original building was constructed c1684. ...
The site of a chapel which was built during the Post Medieval period. A new chapel was built on the same site during the Imperial period and continued in use until the 1930s. The chapel was situated 100m south of the school at Lower Brailes.
Primitive Methodists were meeting in Bishops Itchington by 1849 (but the congregation was not recorded in the 1851 religious census). A chapel for 100 people was built in Poplar Road ...