unitarianhistory.org.uk BIB PLACES F.pdf · 2015-10-21 · PLACES REGIONAL Evans, George Eyre Vestiges of Protestant Dissent (Liverpool, 1897) [the most complete list of Unitarian

PLACES

REGIONAL

Evans, George Eyre Vestiges of Protestant Dissent (Liverpool, 1897) [the most

complete list of Unitarian congregations and their ministers. Great Hucklow,

Topsham and Northiam have no entries. Very useful but needs checking. Gordon’s

annotated copy should be in the UC Collection. Maurice Bonner’s updating of Evans’s

Vestiges is at The Unitarian College, Luther King House, Brighton Grove, Manchester.

Beard, John Relly Unitarianism in its actual condition ... the rise, progress and

principles of Christian Anti-Trinitarianism in different parts of the world (London,

1846) [contains a list of anti-trinitarian congregations and ministers in England and

Wales]

‘A list of Unitarian churches [Edmund Kell papers, Southampton Record Office]’ TUHS

13:2 (1964) 85-86

Evans, John List of Dissenting congregations and ministers in England and Wales

1715-29 (DWL MS 38.4) [Evans list is reproduced in James, T. S. The history of the

litigation and legislation respecting Presbyterian Chapels and Charities in England

and Ireland between 1816 and 1849 (London, Hamilton Adams and Co, 1867)]

Creasey, John Index to the John Evans list of dissenting congregations and ministers

1715-1729 in Dr Williams’s Library (London, Dr Williams’s Library, Occasional Paper

11, 1964)

Gordon, Alexander Freedom after ejection. A review (1690-2) of Presbyterian and

Congregational nonconformity in England and Wales (1917)

Sharpe, Emily Pictures of Unitarian Churches (1901) [UHS15]

ENGLAND

COUNTIES/GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS

Lancashire and Cheshire

Axon, Ernest ‘Nonconformity in Lancashire in the seventeenth century’ Transactions

of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 35 (1918)

Evans, George Eyre Record of the Provincial Assembly of Lancashire and Cheshire

(Manchester, 1896) [contains bibliographical references about congregations,

biographical information about ministers and details of communion plate]

Gordon, Alexander Cheshire Classis minutes 1691-1745 (Manchester, 1919)

Halley, Robert Lancashire: its puritanism and nonconformity (Manchester, Tubbs and

Brook, 1872)

Herford, R. Travers and Evans, E. D. Priestley Historical sketch of the North and East

Lancashire Unitarian Mission and its affiliated churches 1859-1909 (Bury, 1909)

Nightingale, Benjamin Lancashire Nonconformity or, sketches, historical and

descriptive of the Congregational and Old Presbyterian Churches in the county 6

volumes (Manchester, Heywood, 1890-1893)

‘John Dalton and Manchester, 1793-1844’ in McLachlan, Herbert Essays and

Addresses, (Manchester University Press, 1950) pp. 57-69

Head, Geoffrey Unitarianism in Manchester 1930-1988 - decline and adaptation

(Manchester, 1991)

Kenworthy, Fred ‘The East Cheshire Union of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches

1859-1959: a centenary sketch’ TUHS 12:1 (1959) 7-26 [reprinted as Richly Poured ]

Nightingale, B. Lancashire Nonconformity or, sketches, historical and descriptive of

the Congregational and old Presbyterian churches in the county 6 volumes (1890-93)

Pegler, G South Cheshire and District Association of Sunday Schools and

Congregations [1925]

Perry, H. E. The East Cheshire Christian Union: an historical sketch (1925)

Steers, David The Provincial Assembly of Lancashire and Cheshire: a brief account of

its origin and significnace (n.d. probably 1991)

Wach, Howard M. ‘Unitarian philanthropy and cultural hegemony in comparative

perspective: Manchester and Boston, 1827-1849’ Journal of Social History 26:3

(Spring 1993) 539-558 [compares Unitarian philanthropy in Manchester UK and

Boston USA in relation to the ideas of Joseph Tuckerman]

London

Wilson, Walter The history and antiquities of Dissenting churches and meeting

houses in London, Westminster, and Southwark 4 volumes (London, 1808-1814)

East Anglia

The Unitarian heritage in East Anglia (2010)

Jones, G. Randall ‘Notes on the history of the Eastern Union of Unitarian and Free

Christian Churches’ TUHS 4:1 (1927) 45-57

English West Midlands

Evans, George Eyre Midland churches: a history of the congregations on the roll of

the Midland Christian Union (Dudley, 1899) [contains bibliographical references

about congregations, biographical information about ministers and details of

communion plate]

Historical Summary (1806-1925) (The Midland Christian Union of Presbyterian,

Unitarian, and other Non-Subscribing Churches, re-printed from the annual report,

1925)

An illustrated handbook of the Presbyterian, Unitarian, and other Liberal Christian

Churches in the Midlands with a short life of Dr Priestley (Birmingham, Priestley

Centenary Fund, 1904) [pictures of ministers and churches]

Sell, Alan P. F. Protestant nonconformists and the West Midlands of England (Keele

University Press, 1996)

[Toulmin, Joshua] Dissenting churches in the town and neighbourhood of

Birmingham [c.1805] [DWL fol. MS 38.12] [List of churches, with ministerial

succession and brief notes]

Woodall, R. D. Midland Unitarianism and its story 1662-1962 (Sutton Coldfield,

Norman A. Tector Ltd, 1962)

English East Midlands

Bolam, C. Gordon 'The changes and development within Presbyterianism in the

counties of Derby, Leicester and Nottingham from its organisation in the

Commonwealth to the transformation to Independency and Unitarianismc. 1780'

(M.A. thesis, University of Nottingham, 1957)

Bolam, C. Gordon Three hundred years 1662-1962: the story of the churches forming

the North Midland Presbyterian and Unitarian Association (Nottingham, 1962)

West of England

Brockett, Allan ed. ‘The Exeter Assembly: the minutes of the Assemblies of the

United Brethren of Devon and Cornwall, 1691-1717, as transcribed by the Reverend

Isaac Gilling’ Devon and Cornwall Record Society New series Vol. 6 (1963) [brief

biographies of all persons mentioned]

Murch, Jerom A history of the Presbyterian and General Baptist churches in the west

of England with memoirs of some of their pastors (London, 1835)

Bedfordshire

Tibbutt, H. G. ‘Some Bedfordshire links with Unitarians and Liberal Christians’ TUHS

14:2 (1968) 119-113

Cornwall

Ruston, Alan ‘Unitarianism in Cornwall’ TUHS 19:3 (1989) 168-180

Devon

Brockett, A. A. ‘Nonconformity in Devon in the eighteenth century’ Transactions of

the Devonshire Association 90 (1958) 31-59

Gillespie, J. T. ‘17th century Presbyterianism in Devon and Cornwall’ Journal of the

Presbyterian Historical Society of England 8 (???) 23-5

[Manning, J. ] Account of ministers settled in Devonshire from 1662 to the present

time with their number of hearers in 1715 and 1794. [Inserted in Minute Book A of

the United Brethren] (DWL MIC.48)

Powicke, F. J. ‘Arianism and the Exeter Assembly’ Transactions of the Congregational

Historical Society 7 (????) 34-43

Towgood, M. An imperfect account of the succession of ministers in the several

Dissenting Congregations in . . Devonshire (DWL MS. 24.60)

Windeatt, E. ‘Devonshire and the Indulgence of 1672’ Transactions of the

Congregational Historical Society 1 (????) 84-91, 159-70, 301-12

Windeatt, E. ‘The Puritans in Devon’ Transactions of the Congregational Historical

Society 1 (???) 92-4

Worth, R. N. ‘Puritanism in Devon and the Exeter Assembly’ Transactions of the

Devonshire Association (1877)

Hertfordshire

Ruston, Alan R. Unitarianism in Hertfordshire (Oxhey, 1979)

Kent

Minutes of the East Kent General Baptist Association, 1717-1734 [DWL MS 38.79a]

Minutes of the quarterly meetings of the East Kent General Baptist churches, 1780-87

[DWL MS 38.72]

Minutes of the Kent and Sussex General Baptist Association (founded 1708), 1708-

299; 1714-60 [DWL MS 38.83]

Minutes of the meetings of the General Baptist churches in and about East and West

Kent, 1768-1819 [DWL MS 38.79b]

Buffard, F. Kent and Sussex Baptist Associations (E.Vinson, 1964)

Mills, H. L. 'Baptists in the Weald' Baptist Quarterly 2 (????) 374-84

Packer, Brian A. The Unitarian Heritage in Kent (London, 1991)

Whitley, W. T. 'Baptists in East Kent' Baptist Quarterly 2 (????) 90-2, 137-41, 180-8

Norfolk

Norfolk Unitarians: congregations and chapels outside Norwich (1997)

Shropshire

Skinner, R. F. Nonconfomity in Shropshire, 1662-1816: a study in the rise and

progress of Baptist, Congregational, Presbyterian and Methodist societies (1964)

Staffordshire

Beard, Lilian ‘Unitarianism in the Potteries from 1812’ TUHS 6:1 (1935) 14-28

Matthew's A. G. The Congregational Churches of Staffordshire with some account of

the Puritans, Presbyterians, Baptists and Quakers in the county during the 17th

century (Congregational Union of England and Wales, 1924)

Surrey

Hooper, T. R. 'General Baptists in Surrey and Sussex' Baptist Quarterly 4 (????) 74-82

Sussex

Minutes of the Kent and Sussex General Baptist Association (founded 1708), 1708-

299; 1714-60 [DWL MS 38.83]

Buffard, F. Kent and Sussex Baptist Associations (E. Vinson, 1964)

Hooper, T. R. 'General Baptists in Surrey and Sussex' Baptist Quarterly 4 (????) 74-82

Yorkshire

Anderson, A. 'From puritanism to nonconformity, 1680-89: a study in the

development of Protestant Dissent, with special reference to Yorkshire' (Ph.D thesis,

University of Hull, 1980)

Axon, Ernest ‘Yorkshire Nonconformity in 1743’ TUHS 5:3 (1933) 244-261

Walker, Frank and Goodchild, John F. Unitarianism in Yorkshire: a short history

(1962)

The Unitarian Chapels of Yorkshire (Yorkshire Union, n.d.) [photographs and

ministers]

PLACES

Accrington

Founded 1859, built Oxford St 1868, 1966. Closed 1980s

archive material

Bolton CL (NUL 11/1);

Unitarian College Collection (UCC/4/7B).

printed sources


(Manchester, 1896) p.1

Evans, George Eyre Vestiges of Protestant Dissent (Liverpool, 1897) p.197 and

Herford, R. Travers and

Evans, E. D. Priestley Historical sketch of the North and East Lancashire Unitarian

Mission and its affiliated churches 1859-1909 (Bury, 1909) pp.41-43

Jones, J. I. A brief history of the Unitarian Church in Accrington from 1859 to 1909

(1909)

Ainsworth

Cockey Moor

Founded 1662, built 1672, 1715

archive material

Church;

Lancashire RO (PR 2829/1-7);

PRO(Lancashire 4, C 1769-1837, B 1781-1837).

printed sources

The story of Cockey New Chapel (n.d.)


(Manchester, 1896)

pp.2-4

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Ainsworth]’ TUHS

4:1 (1927) 58-65

Herford R. Travers and Evans, E. D. Priestley Historical sketch of the North and East

Lancashire Unitarian Mission and its affiliated churches 1859-1909 (Bury, 1909) pp.

44-47


the Congregational and old Presbyterian churches in the county volume 3 (1890-93)

pp. 115-127

Alcester

Founded before 1693, built Knowsley Rd 1721-1896

archive material

Warwickshire RO (CR 1018);

PRO(Warwickshire 1, C and B 1774-1836).

printed sources


the Midland Christian Union (Dudley, 1899) pp.9-18

Evans, George Eyre Vestiges of Protestant Dissent (Liverpool, 1897) p.3

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Alcester ]’ TUHS

4:1 (1927) 60-2

Stell, Christopher An inventory of Nonconformist chapels and meeting-houses in

Central England (HMSO, 1986) pp.226-7

Allostock

Founded 1672, built 1690, closed 1909

archive material

PRO (Cheshire 1,C and B 1779-1823);

see Knutsford Brook St Chapel records.

printed sources

Payne, George A. An ancient chapel: Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford with Allostock

Chapel nr. Knutsford (Banbury, 1934)


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Allostock]’ TUHS

4:1 (1927) 58-65


(Manchester, 1896)

pp.5-7

Alnwick

Founded 1815, Ebenezer Chapel, Correction House Yard

archive material

Dr Williams's Library (94.K1 Odgers);

PRO (Northumberland 2, . C 1817-31).

printed sources

Altrincham

Founded and built Shaw's Lane 1814, Dunham Rd 1872

archive material

Church;

PRO (Cheshire 27, C1752-1836).

printed sources


(Manchester, 1896) pp.8-10


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Altrincham]’ TUHS

4:1 (1927) 58-65

Godfrey, Peter Bertram Unitarianism in Altrincham 1841-1964 (duplicated, 1964)

Teagle, Frances and Midgley, John eds The Unitarian Congregation in Altrincham

1814-1997: Essays in celebration (Dunham Road Unitarian Chapel, 1997)

Ansdell


archive material

printed sources



48-50

Ashford-in-the-Water

Founded 1696-1875, built about 1700 Cliff End; Graveyard survives

archive material

see local parish records.

printed sources

Ashton-in-Makerfield

Park Lane Chapel. Founded 1672, built 1697

archive material

Wigan RO, Leigh (D/NUI);

Unitarian College Collection (B215; C29).

printed sources

Molyneux, H. Park Lane Chapel, 250th commemoration 1697-1947: a short survey of

chapel history and souvenir programme of the 250th anniversary celebrations

(Ashton-in Makerfield, n.d.)

Park Lane Chapel (Unitarian): a brief history of the chapel written for the further

interest of its visitors (Wigan, Examiner Office, n.d.)


(Manchester, 1896) pp. 149-50

Evans, George Eyre Vestiges of Protestant Dissent (Liverpool, 1897) pp.198-9

Fox, George The history of Park Lane Chapel (Manchester, H. Rawson and Co., 1897)



112-13



pp. 44-52

Ashton-under-Lyne

Founded 1897, built 1900, Richmond Hill 1907, Closed 1984

archive material

Tameside Local Studies (NU3)

printed sources

Bazaar Book (1909 3pp. [UHS15]

Ashwick

Founded before 1699, built 1703, 1758-late 19th century

archive material

? Unitarian College Collection;

Somerset RO .

PRO (Somerset 1, C 1761-81, 1785-1837, B 1796-1835);

printed sources


of England with memoirs of some of their pastors (London, 1835) pp.156-164

Astley

Founded c.1821-1840, recommenced 1856, built Manchester Rd 1865 Closed 2008

archive material

Church;

PRO (Lancashire 12, C 1825-37).

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Astley]’ TUHS 4:1

(1927) 58-65


Lancashire Unitarian Mission and its affiliated churches 1859-1909 (Bury, 1909) p.

51

Atherstone

Founded 1689, built OM Long St 1725-1918

archive material

PRO (Warwickshire 3, C 1765-94).

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Atherstone]’ TUHS

4:1 (1927) 62

Inquirer 15 November 1980

Atherton

Chowbent founded and built 1645, 1721

archive material

Wigan RO;

Unitarian College Collection (C1);

PRO (Lancashire 58, C1758-1837).

printed sources

Chowbent Chapel 1645-1721-1921 Bicentenary programme and souvenir (1921)

'Chowbent Chapel and its ministers’ TUHS 9:1 (1947) 35-37

Baker, F. The life and times of the Rev. James Woods . . . called "General" Woods, a

discourse . . . at the Presbyterian Chapel, Chowbent, February 20th, 1859 (1859)




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Atherton]’ TUHS

4:1 (1927) 58-65

Gordon, Alexander Ancient days at Atherton (Leigh, 1921)



77-83



pp. 95-108

Wright, J. J. The story of Chowbent Chapel, 1645-1721-1921 (1921)

Banbury

archive material

printed sources

Tyssen, Amherst D. ‘The Old Meeting House, Banbury, and its successor the

Unitarian Church’ TUHS 1:3 (1918) 276-302

Cobb, E. Some traditions and historical recollections relating to the old Presbyterian

Meeting-house at Banbury [DWL MS 38.45 (a))




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Banbury]’ TUHS 4:1

(1927) 58-65


Central England (HMSO, 1986) p. 170

Barnard Castle

Founded 1844, built 1870, closed c.1930

archive material

printed sources


Barnstable

archive material

printed sources

Evans, George Eyre ‘Barnstable: Cross Street Chapel’ TUHS 3:2 (1924) 165-6

[N&Q74]

Bath

Founded 1672, built Frog Lane 1692, Trim St 1795-1969

archive material

Bath City RO; Dr Williams's Library (94K4, 9 Odgers);

PRO (Somerset 4, C 1719-79, 1785-1837, B 1819-37).

[The 1876 2 manual Sweetland organ from Trim Street is restored and erected in

Home Farm Barn, Chawton, Alton, Herts GU34 1SJ [info from Graham Rankin who

rescued the organ and lives at Home Farm 22 December 1998]

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Bath]’ TUHS 4:1

(1927) 58-65



Wiard, H. D. Some notes on Unitarianism in Bath (1951)

Battle

Founded 1780, built GM and later Christ Church 1789-1836, 1840-98;

archive material

E Sussex RO (NU3);

Unitarian College Collection (D9; D62);

PRO (Sussex 3, C 1791-1836, B 1791-93).

printed sources

Burgess, Walter H. ‘Battle Unitarian Chapel’ The Southern Unitarian Magazine

(1888-89) 7, 22, 43, 61, 75, 91, 106, 121 [I (AMH) have used the cuttings of these

articles in George Eyre Evans’s cuttings volume Presbyterian Chapels - shorter

articles at Harris Manchester College, Oxford library strong room 1 (in 2001 bay

nearest door beyond the hymn books)]

Christian Life 4 May 1888 [in GEE ibid pp. 224-226] 27 April 1889 [ibid. pp.227-8]


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Battle]’ TUHS 4:1

(1927) 58-65

Battle

Free Thinking Christians Fl 1818-50

archive material

Church book of a congregation formed in Battle in 1818 in union with the 'Free-

thinking Christians . . . in the Crescent, Jewin Street, London, with minutes 1818-20

[DWL MS 38.67];

Dr Williams's Library (38.67; 38.87).

printed sources

Bedfield


archive material

Suffolk RO (FK4/2, FK4/4).

printed sources

Reed, Cliff 'The continuing mission - Bedfield Unitarian Chapel' TUHS 22:1 (1999)

68-75

Bedford

Bedfordshire Unitarian Fellowship

Founded 1960

archival material

Church

printed sources

Belper

Founded 1689, built Field Row 1716, 1788

archive material

Church

printed sources


the North Midland Presbyterian and Unitarian Association (Nottingham, 1962) pp.9-

12


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Belper]’ TUHS 4:2

(1928) 156-167


Central England (HMSO, 1986) pp. 33-4

Wykes, David L. Belper Unitarian Chapel (1978)

Bessell’s Green, see Sevenoaks

Bewdley

Founded 1696, built High St 1696/70-1894

archive material

PRO (Worcestershire 2, C 1722-1823, B1812-15).

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Bewdley]’ TUHS

4:2 (1928) 158-9



Biddenden

GB Founded 1648, built 1834-68

archive material

Unitarian College Collection (D62)1828-34.

printed sources

Billingshurst

GB Founded and built High St 1754

archive material

Church;

Dr Williams's Library (38.66); Unitarian College Collection (D11);

PRO (Sussex 4, B 1821-36);

registers and MIs have beentranscribed (Dr Williams's Library and CRO) .

printed sources

Burgess, W. H. 'Billingshurst in 1851' [Notes and Queries 162] TUHS 6:2 (1936) 170-

173

Caffyn, John Sussex believers: Baptist marriages in the 17th and 18th centuries

(Churchman Publishing, 1988)


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Billingshurst]’ TUHS

4:2 (1928) 156-167

Evershed, John J. ‘A short account of the Free Christian Church, Billingshurst

formerly known as The General Baptist Chapel’ TUHS 9:3 (1949) 160-74

‘Burials in Sussex [Billingshurst and Horsham]’ TUHS 20:3 (1993) 211-212

Maguire, Leonard J. trs. Billingshurst: The general Baptist Meeting House: composite

register of deaths and monumental inscriptions (October 1985)

Birkenhead

Founded and built Charing Cross Grange Rd 1851, Bessborough Rd 1903, Clive Rd,

Closed 1976

archive material

Cheshire RO (EUC 4);

see West Kirby Church records.

printed sources


(Manchester, 1896) p.15-16


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Birkenhead]’ TUHS

4:2 (1928) 156-167

Birmingham (General)

printed sources

Brunel, Christopher ‘The burning of the Birmingham Unitarian chapels’ Coins

(October 1971) 17 [pictures of Old and New Meetings, Birmingham on metal tokens]

Bushrod, Emily The history of Unitarianism in Birmingham from the middle of the

eighteenth century to 1893 (MA Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1954)

James, John Angell Protestant Nonconformity: a sketch of its general history with an

account of the rise and present state of its various denominations in the town of

Birmingham (London, Hamilton Adams and Co, 1849)

Wykes, David L. '"A finished monster of the true Birmingham breed": Birmingham

Unitarians and the 1791 Priestley riots' in Sell, Alan P. F. ed. Protestant

Nonconformists and the West Midlands of England (Keele University Press, 1996)

Birmingham

Church of the Saviour, founded and built 1847-95

archive material

Birmingham RL (258925; 259532; 260167 George Dawson Collection; 264036).

printed sources




Birmingham

Fazeley Street Domestic Mission

archive material

printed sources



Birmingham

Free Christian Society

archive material

printed sources

Matthews, A. B. Free Christian Society 1858-88 (1900) pp.79 [UHS15]

Birmingham, Hollywood

Founded and built Kingswood (Dollax) 1708, 1793

archive material

Church;

Birmingham RL(303437).

printed sources

[Jatvis, W.] Kingswood Chapel, Holywood [a leaflet, c.1939.]




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Kingswood]’ TUHS

7:1 (1939) 64-75



Christian Freeman (1870) 24-5

Birmingham, Domestic Mission

Hurst Street Domestic Mission

archive material



Birmingham (London, Hamilton Adams and Co, 1849) p.90

printed sources


the Midland Christian Union (Dudley, 1899) pp.72

Birmingham, Kingswood

Kingswood see Birmingham, Hollywood

Birmingham, New Meeting

New Meeting

Moore Street

Broad Street

Founded 1672, built 1692, New Meeting 1732, 1802, Church of Messiah Broad St

1862, Unitarian New Meeting Ryland St 1973

archive material

Church;

Birmingham RL;

PRO(Warwickshire 7, C 1719, 1735-1840, B notdated);

Deeds are with George Green & Co [2008].

printed sources

Bushrod, Emily The Birmingham Unitarians 1692-1973 (Birmingham, n.d.)




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Birmingham: Church

of the Messiah]’ TUHS 4:2 (1928) 163-4



Birmingham (London, Hamilton Adams and Co, 1849) pp. 80-89

Little, B. Catholic churches since 1623 (1966) pp.200-1

New, Herbert The New Meeting and the Church of the Messiah, Birmingham: a

survey of their history (Birmingham, 1912)


Central England (HMSO, 1986) p.229-30

Wilson, H. G. ‘One hundred years of religious and social work in Birmingham: the

Church of the Messiah Domestic Mission’ TUHS 8:3 (1945) 113-121

Victoria County History: Warwickshire VII (1964) 409, 475

Inquirer 23 November 1974

Birmingham, Handsworth

Founded 1834, built Newhall Hill 1840, Gibson Rd, Handsworth 1951

archive material

Birmingham RL copy of Stych, J ‘History of Newhall Hill Church’ (1892), contains MS

notes .

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Birmingham:

Newhall Hill]’ TUHS 4:2 (1928) 164



Birmingham (London, Hamilton Adams and Co, 1849) pp. 89-90


Central England (HMSO, 1986) p.230

[Stych, J.] History of the Newhall Hill church and schools, Birmingham [1892]

Victoria County History: Warwickshire VII (1964) 475-6


Birmingham, Old Meeting

OM Founded 1687, built 1689, 1795, 1885-1950

archive material

Birmingham RL (258256);

Dr Williams's Library (38.123);

Unitarian College Collection (C11. Cl42);

PRO(Warwickshire 6, C 1774-1833, B 1784-1858).

printed sources

Beale, Catherine Hutton Memorials of the Old Meeting House and burial ground ,

Birmingham (White and Pike, 1882) [gives full transcription and notes]




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Birmingham: Old

Meeting]’ TUHS 4:2 (1928) 160-3



Birmingham (London, Hamilton Adams and Co, 1849) pp.77-80, 89

Lee, E. Rosalind ‘An episode in the history of the Old Meeting House, Birmingham,

illustrated in some letters . . . of Thomas Eyre Lee’ TUHS 11:4 (1958) 163-175

Mullins, George W. The Old Meeting Church, Birmingham: an address (1934)

Rowe, Mortimer ‘The Old Meeting Church, Birmingham High Court (Chancery

Division), 1960’ TUHS 12:2 (1960) 53-68

Sibree J. and Caston, M. Independency in Warwickshire (1855) pp.174-7



Thomas, J. M. Lloyd The catholic tradition and outlook of the Old Meeting Church

(Birmingham, Cornish Brothers Ltd., 1918)

Victoria County History: Warwickshire VII (1964) 474, 476

Letters, 1812-29, concerning resignation of S. W. Browne and Robert Kell from the

Old Meeting, Birmingham, and appointment of Hugh Hutton [DWL MS 38.123]

Birmingham, Paradise Street

Founded and built Paradise St about 1790, Little Cannon St 1809-14

archive material

PRO(Warwickshire 6A, C 1791-1813) .

printed sources



Birmingham, Small Heath

Founded 1893, built Waverley Rd Church 1898

archive material

Church;

see also Birmingham Church of the Saviour.

printed sources



Blackburn

archive material

printed sources



52-3

Blackpool, North Shore (Formerly Banks Street)

Founded 1873, built Dickson Rd 1883-1975, Closed 1975

archive material

Lancashire RO (UBe);

Bolton CL (NUL8).

printed sources

Bracewell, W. H. North Shore Unitarian Church, Dickson Road . . . 1875-1945 (1945)






pp.54-5

Blackpool, South Shore

Founded 1894, built Lytham Rd 1903

archive material

Church;

Lancashire RO (DDX 207/6 and112).

printed sources

South Shore Unitarian Church, Blackpool 1894-1944



56

Bloxham and Milton

Founded 1672, built about 1700 (Bloxham), Milton Chapel Lane closed 1865

archive material

PRO (Oxfordshire 6, C 1789-1837).

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Bloxham]’ TUHS 4:2

(1928) 165-6



Tyssen, Amherst D. ‘The Presbyterians of Bloxham and Milton, near Banbury’ TUHS

2:2 (1920) 9-32

Declaration of the Trust of the Milton Meeting House. 7 May 1708 [DWL MS 38.45

(b)]

Bolton (General)

Taylor, Peter ‘A divided middle class: Bolton 1790-1850’ Manchester Region History

Review (May 1992) 3-15

Bolton, Bank Street

Bank Street Chapel, founded 1672, built 1696, 1856

archive material

Church;

Unitarian College Collection (C154, UCC/4/4, UCC/4/8/18);

PRO (Lancashire 27, C and B 1753-88, C 1788-1836;

Bolton Archive service;

further deposit with Bolton Archive service recorded by NRA [published in Journal of

Ecclesiastical History April 2002] of minutes Sunday School records, correspondence

and financial records 1750-1990.

printed sources

Baker, Franklin The rise and progress of nonconformity in Bolton: an historical sketch

of a congregation of Protestant Dissenters assembling in Deansgate and afterwards

in Bank Street (London, E. T. Whitefield, 1854)




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Bolton, Bank

Street]’ TUHS 4:2 (1928) 156-167



pp.57-59



pp. 6-15

Ramsden, Geoffrey M. A responsible society: the life and times of the congregation

of Bank Street Chapel, Bolton, Lancashire. (Unitarian) (Horsham, G. M. Ramsden,

1985)

[Street, C. J. and others] Bank Street Chapel, Bolton. Bi-centenary commemoration

1696-1896 (London Philip Green, Manchester & H. Rawson and Co., n.d.)

Bolton, Halliwell Road

Founded and built Halliwell Rd 1899, 1931. Closed 2014

archive material

Probably with the former secretary (2015).

printed sources

Hodgson, Irvin The cause thou fightest for: the golden jubilee handbook of the

Halliwell Road Free Church Bolton 1899-1949 (Bolton, Ship Gates Press, 1949)



64-5

Bolton, Unity

Founded 1862, Commission St 1868, Unity Church Dean Rd 1893; Now at Chorley

New Road

archive material

Bolton CL (NUL 11/1).

printed sources






pp.60-63

Bolton, Moor Lane

Moor Lane founded 1822-c.1843;

see Bolton Bank St Chapel records;

archive material

PRO (Lancashire26a, C 1822-43).

printed sources

Bolton on Dearne

Founded and built Priory Rd 1911-72.

archive material

Sheffield CL.

printed sources

Bootle

Founded 1889, built Stanley Rd 1895-1972

archive material

Records held by solicitor (Alsop, Stevenson, Bateson of Water Street, Liverpool);

Unitarian College Collection (UCC/4/8/8).

printed sources




Boston

Founded and built Spain Lane 1804, 1819

archive material

Church;

PRO (Lincolnshire 8, B 1820-37);

PRO (RG 37/17).

printed sources



16


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Boston: Spain Lane]’

TUHS 4:3 (1929) 277-289

Thompson, Pishey History and antiquities of Boston (1856 reprinted Lincolnshire

Heritage Group 1997) [Thompson was a chapel member]

Bournemouth

Founded 1882, built West Hill Rd 1891, Hinton Rd 1991

archive material

Dorset RO (NU4).

printed sources


Bow

Founded 1753-1816

archive material

Devon RO (2011 D).

see Crediton

printed sources

Bradford, Chapel Lane

Founded 1672, built Toad Lane 1719, Chapel Lane 1869, Russell St 1971

archive material

Church;

Bradford District Archives Dept (B929.5BLA; DB39/27/4; 30D81; 31D81; 44D88;

DB39/44/1-2; Strongroom 81);

Shrewsbury PL (Astley papers 1067/ 181-182. 186);

National Library of Wales (MSS 3151-87) E Ceredig Jones MSS;

PRO (Yorkshire 39, C 1730-1837, B1768-1837).

printed sources

[Cook, E. J. Raymond] Bradford Unitarian Church. Chapel Lane Chapel 1719-1969

[n.d.]


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Bradford]’ TUHS

4:3 (1929) 277-289

Pilcher, R. English Presbyterianism in Bradford . . . the last discourses preached in the

Old Chapel, Chapel Lane . . . 1867 (1868)

Bradford, Broadway Avenue

Founded and built Broadway Ave 1906. Closed c.2008

archive material

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford (WYB361)

printed sources

Bradford on Avon



Bradwell

Founded and built Old Chapel 1695-1954;

archive material

Unitarian College Collection (D4).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Bradwell]’ TUHS

4:3 (1929) 279-80

Evans, S. Bradwell: ancient and modern (1912) pp.19-22, 52, 95-101



[Newspaper Cutting] 1897 [UHS15]

Bridgwater

Founded 1662, built Dampiet St 1688

archive material

Somerset RO and Osler family papers;

PRO (Somerset 16, C 1755-1837, B 1833-35).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Bridgwater]’ TUHS

4:3 (1929) 277-289



Pike, Clement E. ‘Pews and benches [Bridgwater]’ TUHS 2:4 (1922) 131-137

Pike, Clement E. ‘Evolution of church government in a Presbyterian congregation

[Bridgwater]’ TUHS 3:1 (1923) 40-51

Pike, Clement Edwards Our ancient meeting house: some account of the fabric of

Christ Church, Dampiet Street, Bridgwater (Bridgwater, The Eastgate Press, n.d.)

Woodhall, R. D. Christ Church Unitarian Chapel, Dampiet Street, Bridgewater

(undated typscript of 2 A4 pages)

Donkin, Brod ‘Church under threat’ Mercury and Gazette (12 March 1986)

Bridport

Founded and built East St 1672, 1794

archive material

Dorset RO (N1; Colfox family papersD43/R1-7);

PRO (Dorset 4, C 1720-64,1769-87, 1764-1837, B 1820-35).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Bridport]’ TUHS 4:3

(1929) 277-289



Short, E. Basil ‘The beginnings of Bridport nonconformity’ TUHS 21:2 (1996) 136-

142

Short, E. Basil A respectable society Bridport 1593-1835 (Bradford on Avon,

Moonraker Press, 1976)

Brighton

Founded 1797, built Jew St 1806, Cavendish St 1812, New Road 1820

archive material

East Sussex RO (NU/6/ ).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Brighton]’ TUHS

4:3 (1929) 277-289

Hood, Alfred A hundred years of religious growth, printed from notes of a sermon

preached at the centenary service of the Free Christian Church, New Road, Brighton

on Sunday evening, 24th October 1897 pp.7 (Brighton, W. Gill printer, The Lanes,

1897) [copy in Brighton RL]

Rowland, John ‘Christ Church (Unitarian)’, New Road, Brighton: a short history’

TUHS 10:3 (1953) 148-160

Rowland, John The story of Brighton Unitarian Church (London, The Lindsey Press,

1972)

[no title or date or author] pp.33 [UHS15]

Bristol, Clifton

Founded and built Clifton, Oakfield Rd 1864\see Lewin's Mead

archive material

Bristol RO (39901).

Bristol, Domestic Mission

Founded Domestic Mission Montague St 1839- ?

archive material

Somerset RO (D/N/wu 6/1).

printed sources

Bristol, Lewin’s Mead

Founded 1662, built Lewin's Mead M 1694, 1791, Brunswick Square 1991

archive material

Church;

Bristol RO;

Dr Williams's Library (OD 21-35);

PRO (Somerset 18 (RG 8/90) C 1718-1840, B 1768-1837).

printed sources

Bristol Record Society Publications 12 (????)74-5

Caston, M. Independency in Bristol (1860) pp.80-9


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Bristol: Lewin’s

Mead]’ TUHS 4:3 (1929) 287-9

Griffiths, O. M. ‘Side lights on the history of Presbyterian-Unitarianism from the

records of Lewin’s Mead Chapel, Bristol’ TUHS 6:2 (1936)116-129





Thomas, C. J. [no title] (1891) pp.32 [UHS15]

Lewins Mead (Business Design Group, n.d.)

Bristol, Frenchay, see Frenchay

Bromsgrove

archive material

printed sources

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Bromsgrove]’ TUHS

4:4 (1930) 430-439

Burnley

Founded 1858, built Trafalgar Rd 1871-1960

archive material

Unitarian College Collection (UCC /4/2)

printed sources






pp.66-68

Burslem

Fl 1822-47

see reference in Congleton Chapel records

Bury, Bank Street

Founded and built Silver St 1719, Bank St 1852, 1974

archive material

Church;

Unitarian College Collection (UCC/4/6);

PRO (Lancashire 39, C1723-37, B 1832-37).

printed sources

A souvenir booklet to commemorate the 25oth anniversary of Bury’s oldest non-

conformist church, (the foundation of the Unitarian churches at Bank Street and

Chesham) erected in Silver Street and opened for worship on 10th December 1719

(Rochdale, Peel Press, 1969)

Bazaar Book (1901) pp.24 [UHS15]




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Bury (Lancs)]’ TUHS

4:4 (1930) 430-439

Herford R. Travers and Evans, E. D. Priestley Historical sketch of the North and East


69-72



pp. 178-184

Bury, Chesham

Founded and built Halstead St 1883-1974, united with Bank St Bury 1972

archive material

Bury Museum and Archives (CCU)

printed sources

Chesham Unitarian Congregation and Sunday School: a brief historical sketch issued

in connection with the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Sunday School

(Bury, Roberts & Spencer, 1920)


(Manchester, 1896) pp.30



73-75

Bury St. Edmunds

Founded 1672, built Church Gate St 1690, 1711-1956

archive material

Suffolk RO Bury St Edmunds(E5/5/2.1)

Suffolk RO Ipswich(FK4/500/1);

PRO (Suffolk 8, C1689-1836).

printed sources

Duncan, J. The history of the Presbyterians in Bury St. Edmunds (Typescript, 1961)

[DWL]

Duncan J. A little episode in the history of the Presbyterian Church . . . in Bury St.

Edmunds during the ministry of Rev. Joseph A. Newael 1854-61 (Typescript, 1965)

[DWL]

Duncan J. 'The Presbyterians in Bury St. Edmunds: a summary' Presbyterian Historical

Society of England Journal 12 (1960-63) 100-09

Duncan J. Samuel Bury, 1663-10th Mar. 1729/30 minister at the Presbyterian church,

Bury St. Edmunds, 1689-1720 (Typescript, 1957) [DWL]


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Bury-St. Edmunds]’

TUHS 4:4 (1930) 430-439

Godfrey, W. H. ‘Unitarian chapels in Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds’ Architectural

Journal 108 (1951) 121-6

Deed of 1686 [DWL MIC 167]

Rules and constitution of the church in Church Gate Street, Bury St. Edmunds

(c.1757) [DWL MIC 73]

Buxton

Founded 1672, built 1690, Hartington Rd 1711-1967

archive material

Derbyshire RO;

Tameside Local Studies L (NU1/21, 25 and 74).

printed sources

Axon, Ernest ‘Buxton Chapel’ TUHS 3:4 (1926) 311-334


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Buxton]’ TUHS 4:4

(1930) 430-439

Calne

Founded 1662-1831

archive material

Somerset RO (D/N/wu 4);

Wiltshire RO (1241/29 and 37).

printed sources



Cambridge

Founded 1904, built Memorial Church Emmanuel Rd 1928

archive material

Church;

Unitarian College Collection (A 10) 2 MS articles.

printed sources

C. S. K. [? Courtney S. Kenney] [Cuttings] (1906) [UHS15]

Canterbury

GB Founded 1642, occupied the thirteenth-century Blackfriars from 1732-1913.

archive material

Unitarian College Collection (D62);

Dr Williams's Library (38. 78, 38. 81);

see also E Kent, E and W Kent GB churches; Kent and Sussex Unitarian Christian

Association records;

PRO (Kent 11,C 1780-1836, B 1785-1836);

Registers 1780- 1836 have been transcribed, see General Baptist Assembly

Occasional Paper No. 17 (1992).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Canterbury]’ TUHS

4:4 (1930) 430-439

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Canterbury:

Greyfriars and Blackfriars]’ TUHS 5:1 (1931) 69-77

Creasey, John and Maguire, Leonard J. trs. The General Baptist Church meeting in

and about Canterbury Church Book 1660 to 1695 (London, General Baptist

Assembly, 1992) [Occasional Paper 18] [DWL MS 38.80]

Canterbury: Blackfriars General Baptist Church Abstracts from the PRO registers of

births and burials 1780-1836 (?1984) [DWL MS 38.78]

Canterbury: Blackfriars General Baptist Church A transcription of the Church Book

1711-1721 (????) [DWL MS 38.78]

Taylor, Arthur F. The Free Churches of Canterbury: a sketch of their history and of

their relation to one another (1932) [General Baptists pp.5-19; Presbyterians pp. ??-

??]

Carlisle

Founded 1883, built Victoria Viaduct 1889; Finkle St.; Lorne St 1939-57

archive material

Cumbria RO (CAE 1/82;4/1988; 4/2002);

Leeds Mill Hill Cha(87);

Dr Williams's Library.

printed sources


Chatham

GB Founded 1600, built Heavyside Lane 1802, Hammond Hill later Church of the

Great Companions 1882

archive material

Church;

PRO (Kent 16, C1700-1837, B 1795-1837);

see also Kent and Sussex Unitarian Christian Association.

Registers have been transcribed, see General Baptist Assembly Occasional Paper no.

13 (1991).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Chatham, Cheshunt,

Chester]’ TUHS 5:2 (1932) 185-191

[Maguire, Leonard ed.] The General Baptist Church and its Meeting House at

Chatrham, Kent: a transcription of the Church Book covering the period 1801-1849

(London, General Baptisy Assembly, 1988)

Chatham: the General Baptist Church A transcription of the PRO births and burial

registers 1700-1837 together with the sexton’s burial register to 1854 (?1988)

Chatham: the General Baptist Church Title deeds to the Meeting House (? 1988)

Chelmsford

printed sources


Cheltenham

Founded 1832, built Bayshill 1844

archive material

Church

printed sources

Bayshill Unitarian church centenary programme (1934)

Blake, S. T. Cheltenham's churches and chapels AD 733-1883 (1979) pp.25-6






CF [? Christian Freeman] (1871) 136-9

Cheshunt

Founded 1705 Grossbrook St

archive material

PRO (Hertfordshire 10, C 1729-99).

printed sources

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Cheshunt]’ TUHS

5:2 (1932) 185-191

Chester

Founded 1662, built Crook St, later called Matthew Henry's Chapel 1700, Blacon

1956-87 (closed and sold, congregation continues to meet monthly in hired

premises)

archive material

Chester City RO (D/MH); Dr Williams's Library (38.55);

PRO(Cheshire 12, C 1713-1837, 1848-57, B1791-1855).

printed sources

Barlow, Simon John and others Matthew Henry: his life, family, chapel and

successors 1550 to 1995 (Chester, Communiquest, 1995)




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Chester]’ TUHS 5:2

(1932) 185-191

Roberts, H. D. Matthew Henry and his chapel 1662-1900 (Liverpool, 1901)

Tasker, W. W. ‘Matthew Henry’s Chapel’ Chester Archaeological Society Journal 22

(1917) [reprinted as a pamphlet]

Chesterfield

Founded 1662, built Elder Yard 1694

archive material

Church;

Chesterfield PL (ELD 1-71);

Dr Williams's Library (94K11Odgers);

Shrewsbury PL (Astley papers);

PRO (Derbyshire 15, C1708-1837, B 1705-1837).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Chesterfield]’ TUHS

5:3 (1933) 324-5

Robson, Douglas W. Origins and history of Elder Yard Chapel, Chesterfield: a short

sketch (Chesterfield, 1924) (revised by Vallance, A. W. 1967, duplicated)



Chichester, Baffins Lane

GB Baffin's Lane Fl 1680-1886, united with East Gate

archive material

West Sussex RO (B1/1/1-B1/9/7);

Dr Williams's Library (38.86f OD 329. 4/5);

PRO (Sussex 18,. C 1730-1837).

printed sources

Burgess, Walter H. ‘Changing ministers at Chichester in 1817’ TUHS 7:2 (1940) 191-

197


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Chichester: Baffin’s

Lane and East Gate]’ TUHS 5:3 (1933) 324-332

Thatcher, Peter Then and now: Baptists in Chichester 1648-1994 (Chichester Baptist

Church, Sherbourne Rd, Chichester, W. Sussex PO119 3AE ISBN 0 95 2535700X)

Chichester, East Gate GB

Founded and built East Gate 1671-1941.

archive material

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Chichester: Baffin’s

Lane and East Gate]’ TUHS 5:3 (1933) 324-332

Thatcher, Peter Then and now: Baptists in Chichester 1648-1994 (Chichester Baptist

Church, 1995)

Choppington

Founded and built Front St 1868-1975.

archive material

Tyne and Wear Archive Services (with Newcastle Divine Unity Church records) .

printed sources


Chorley

Founded and built Park St 1725

archive material

LancashireRO (U Ch);


printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Chorley]’ TUHS 5:3

(1933) 324-332





76



pp. 1-10

Cirencester

Founded and built Gosditch St 1672-1969

archive material

Dr Williams's Library (2 boxes; 38.88).

printed sources

Clennell, G. Harold ‘Memorials of an ancient Presbyterian meeting house at

Cirencester’ TUHS 5:3 (1933) 262-287


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Cirencester]’ TUHS

5:3 (1933) 329-30





Old Presbyterian Meeting House. Transcript of register of baptisms and burials, 1727-

1860 (DWL MS 38.88) carbon typescript

Clifton, see Bristol Clifton

Coalville

Founded 1905, built Bridge Street 1908-46

archive material

Leicestershire RO (N/V/73/1-11) .

Cockermouth

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Cockermouth’

TUHS 5:3 (1933) 324-332

Colchester

Founded 1672, built Helen's Lane OMH c.1692-1823

archive material

Suffolk RO, Ipswich (FG4/1/15/89 and 93);

PRO (Essex 19, C1784-1815, 1814-37).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Colchester]’ TUHS

5:3 (1933) 331-332

Colne

Founded 1876, built Stanley St 1879, Byrom Rd 1970-79

archive material

Lancashire RO (Accs 4454,5110).

printed sources






pp.84-5

Petts, Geoffrey The story of Unitarianism in Colne 1826-1979 (Typescript, Colne,

1993)

Colyton

Founded 1662, built OM or George's M 1745-1939

archive material

MS history 1911 among ExeterAssembly records;

Somerset RO (D/N/ tau.mst 6/6; D/N/wu 1/8 & 2/10);

PRO (Devon28, C 1773-1836, C and B 1832-36).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Colyton]’ TUHS 5:4

(1934) 417-424



Congleton

Founded 1662, built Cross St 1687, 1883-1969

archive material

Cheshire RO (EUC 8) 1873-1977;

PRO (Cheshire 19, C 1814-33);

TamesideLocal Studies L (NU1/23,72).

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Congleton]’ TUHS

5:4 (1934) 417-424

Pickford, G. A brief history of Congleton Unitarian Chapel (1883)

Coseley

Founded 1662, built OM 1717, 1875

archive material

Church;

Unitarian College Collection (52);

PRO (Staffordshire 46, C1779-1837, B 1804-37).

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Coseley ]’ TUHS 5:4

(1934) 422-3

Gordon, Alexander ‘Nonconformity at Coseley’ TUHS 4:1 (1927) 16-23

Coventry

Founded 1662, built GM Smithfield St 1700, Holyhead Rd 1937

archive material

Church;

Coventry City RO (Acc 137; 460; 480-481);

Dr Williams's Library (94K12Odgers);


PRO (Warwickshire27, C 1717-1819, 1821-37);

National Library of Wales (MS4844E).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Coventry]’ TUHS

5:4 (1934) 423-4



Sibree J. and Caston, M. Independency if Warwickshire (1855) frontis, 45

Victoria County History: Warwickshire VIII (1969) 393-4

Cradley

Founded and built 1707, Pensnet Meadows 1716, Netherend Chapel Park Lane 1796

archive material

PRO (Worcestershire 10, C 1789-1837, B1761-1826);

misc papers inc diary of Rev Scott 1707-1826 [Collection held privately: enquiries to

The National Archives, Archives Sector Development].

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Cradley]’ TUHS 6:1

(1935) 51-3



Cranbrook

GB Founded ?, built High St 1808-75;

archive material


Dr Williams's Library (OD 329/3);

PRO (Kent 20, C 1682-1778, B 1809-37).

printed sources

Crediton

Founded 1672, built Bell Court? , Bowden Hill 1721-1965

archive material

Devon RO (2011d);

Dr Williams's Library (94K13 Odgers);

PRO (Devon 31, C1735-1837, B 1828-37).

printed sources


Gibsonn, R. ‘A few remarks on the Crediton Presbyterian chapel case’ [letter to] The

Inquirer (?1845) [DWL MS 24.90(8)

Jones, R. P. A Devonshire meeting-house: Crediton Unitarian Chapel [1928] reprinted

from The Inquirer



Woodall, R. D. ‘Crediton [meeting house]: Britain’s largest cob building’ TUHS 13:1

(1963) 22-23

Woodall, R. D. ‘Bowden Hill Chapel, Crediton’ TUHS 13:2 (1964) 80-84

Crewe

Founded 1862, built Beech St 1865-1979

archive material


Tameside Local Studies L (NU1/36,39).

printed sources


(Manchester, 1896)

pp. 43-44


Smith, H. B. [no title] (1893) pp.5 [UHS15]

Crewekerne

Founded 1666, built Hermitage St 1733

archive material

Somerset RO;

PRO (Somerset 35, C 1785-1836, B 1834).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Crewekerne]’ TUHS

6:1 (1935) 51-61



Croft

Founded and built Lady Lane 1839-1959

archive material

Wigan RO (with Atherton, Chowbent records)

printed sources



Evans, George Eyre What one woman did: the origin and early history of Croft

Unitarian Chapel (Leigh, 1936) [reprinted from The Inquirer 31 July 1938]

Crook

printed sources

Nicholson, Francis and Axon, Ernest The older nonconformity in Kendal: a history of

the Unitarian Chapel in the Market Place with transcripts of the registers and notices

of the nonconformist academies of Richard Frankland, M. A., and Caleb Rotheram,

D.D. (Kendal, Titus Wilson, 1915) pp.438-446

Nightingale, B. Lancashire Nonconformity or sketches, historical and descriptive of


pp. 291-5

Cuckfield

GB ?-1813

archive material

East Sussex RO (NU2 OM Ditchling records);

Unitarian College Collection (MS title deeds1802).

printed sources

Maguire, Leonard trs. Cuckfield GB Church trust deeds (London, General Baptist

Assembly, ????) [Occasional Paper 2]

Cullompton

Founded 1662, built Pound Sq 1698, 1913

archive material

Church;

Devon RO;

PRO (Devon 25, C 1693-1823, C and B1823-37).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Cullompton]’ TUHS

6:1 (1935) 51-61



Darlington

Founded 1852, built Lead Yard 1873-1922

archive material

see Stockton Chapel records.

printed sources


Darwen

archive material

Bolton CL (NUL9).

printed sources

Daventry

archive material

printed sources

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Daventry]’ TUHS

6:1 (1935) 51-61

Deal

GB Founded 1682, built High St ?-1830, then closed and opened -1910

archive material


see also E Kent, E and W Kent GB churches; Kent and Sussex U Christian Association

records.

printed sources


Dean Row, Wilmslow

Founded 1672, built 1694

archive material

Church;

Cheshire RO (EUC 1; EUC 2/1).

printed sources

Burgess, W. H. The story of Dean Row Chapel, Wilmslow, Cheshire (1924)

Dean Row Chapel Rules adopted at a meeting of the congregation ... 8th February

1920 [1920]



Evans, George Eyre Vestiges of Protestant Dissent (Liverpool, 1897) p.65-6

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Dean Row]’ TUHS

6:1 (1935) 51-61

Nicholson, J. H. [no title] (1893) pp.8 [UHS15]

Tayler, J. J. Instruction and encouragement from the example of our Presbyterian

forefathers: a sermon ... at Dean Row ... to which is added a brief history of the

chapel (1824)

Denton

Founded 1875, built Wilton St 1879; Clare St 2003

archive material

Church.

printed sources




Wrigley, Edward E. Wilton Street Chapel, Denton: a short history 1875-1936 (n.d.)

Derby

Founded 1672, built Friargate 1698

archive material

Church; Derbyshire RO;

PRO (Derbyshire 21, C 1698-1836, B 1714).

printed sources

Birks, John Memorials of Friar Gate Chapel, Derby (Derby, [1893])

Birks, John [no title] (1898) 13pp. [UHS15]

Bolam, C. Gordon T hree hundred years 1662-1962: the story of the churches forming

the North Midland Presbyterian and Unitarian Association (Nottingham, 1962) pp.

17-22


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Derby]’ TUHS 6:1

(1935) 58-60

Mansfield R. ‘ Development of independency in Derbyshire from the Restoration to

the Methodist revival’ (MA thesis, University of Manchester, 1951), referred to in a

reference to Derby in White, J. Harrop The story of the Old Meering House Mansfield,

(1959) p.54 n3



Devizes

archive material

PRO (Wiltshire 18, C 1781-1836, B 1792-1837)

printed sources

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Devizes]’ TUHS 6:1

(1935) 51-61

Devonport

Founded 1790, built George St 1791, Granby St 1829, Christ Church Duke St 1864-

1917

archive material

PRO (Devon 37, C 1828-35).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Devonport]’ TUHS

6:2 (1936) 148-162



Dewsbury

Founded 1858, built Willans Rd 1866-1953

archive material

Yorkshire U Union records;

see Leeds MillHill Chapel records.

printed sources

Blazeby, William Dewsbury memorial. Rev. John Atlay a Methodist Arian minister:

the after story of the founding of a Unitarian mission and history of Unity Church,

and its ministers (London, George Reveirs, 1908)


Diss

Founded and built Palgrave, Suffolk 1697, Park Fields Diss 1822-1954

archive material

PRO (Norfolk 51, C 1761-1836, B 1797-1836).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Diss]’ TUHS 6:2

(1936) 148-162

Lawson, J. H. ‘A brief sketch of the history of Palgrave Meeting House, Suffolk and

Park-Fields Chapel, Diss, Norfolk 1697-1897’ Norfolk Unitarians: congregations and

chapels outside Norwich (1997) pp.1-5 [reprinted and edited from Easter Union

report 1922]

Ditchling

GB Founded 1698, built OM 1740

archive material

East Sussex RO (NU2);

PRO (Sussex 22, C1798-1832, B 1821-37);

Registers and MIs have been transcribed (Dr Williams's Library and CRO).

printed sources

‘An open trust: note on the Ditchling trust deed’ TUHS 1:1 (1916) 23-4


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Ditchling]’ TUHS

6:2 (1936) 148-162

Macrae, F. A. The history of the Old Meeting House, Ditchling (1950)

Maguire, Leonard. J. tr. A transcription of the early records relating to The Old

Meeting House Ditchling, Sussex volume 1 A Memorandum Book .[1753-1866]

(Privately printed, 1976)

Ditchling: the Old Meeting House Volume 1 Church memorandum Books 1753-1894

(1977); Volume 2 Registers and monumental inscriptions (1978); Volume 3 Trust

deeds (1979)

Kensett, Emily Ditchling Meettng House: some historical notes (London, General

Baptist Assembly, 1987) [Occasional Paper 4]

White, William Hale The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford: Dissenting Minister

(Trubner and Co., London, 1881) [chapter 7, ‘Emancipation’, pp 92-103, provides an

account of a Unitarian congregation ‘D ’, anonymously based on Ditchling, seen

from an unfavourable perspective]

Whitley, W. T. 'General Baptists in Surrey and Sussex 1 Lewes-Ditchling Baptist

Quarterly 4 (????) 66-73

The retaining wall adjacent to the OMH Ditchling (London, General Baptist Assembly,

1986) [Occasional Paper 2]

Dollax Chapel, see Birmingham Kingswood

Doncaster

Founded 1692, built Hallgate 1744, 1912

archive material

Church;

Sheffield CL (LD 1162-1164) UC (197(4), 250 (8-9).

printed sources


Timiney, Kathy The hidden church: 300 years of Dissent in Doncaster (Doncaster,

Free Christian Church, 1993)

Notes on the establishment of the Society of Protestant Dissenters (now called the

Unitarian Church) at Doncaster (1892)

Trust deeds of Doncaster Free Christian Church (previously Unitarian Church)

[catalogue] [duplicated, ?1968]

Dorchester

archive material

Dorset RO (D43; R8 Colfoxfamily records);


PRO (Dorset 8, C 1750-1836).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Dorchester: Hall

Gate and Pease Lane]’ TUHS 6:2 (1936) 148-162



Douglas, IOM

Founded 1880, built 1884-97

archive material

Unitarian College Collection (UCC/4/7)

printed sources


Douglas, IOM

Founded Unitarian Fellowship 1977

Dover

GB Founded and built Adrian St 1643, 1745, 1819

archive material

Church;



see also E Kent and W Kent GB churches, Kent and Sussex U Christian Association

records.

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Dover: Presbyterian

and General Baptist]’ TUHS 6:2 (1936) 148-162

'Letter of a General Baptist minister [Benjamin Marten (1769-1823)]’ TUHS 10:1

(1951) 29-31

Maguire, Leonard J. ed. A history of the General Baptist Church meeting at Dover

Kent (now commonly known as the Unitarian Church) by Benjamin Marten 1802

(London, General Baptist Assembly, 1992) [Occasional Paper 16] [This does not

appear to be a transcription of DWL MS 38.208]

General Baptist Church. First Church Book, c. 1661-1792 [with some earlier entries of

births from 1645] [DWL MS 38.208]

Dudley

Founded 1690, built OM Wolverhampton St 1702, 1717

archive material

Church;

Unitarian College Collection (Cl 11, Cl 52, C26);

PRO (Worcestershire 13, C 1743-72,1775-1837, B 1831-35).

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Dudley]’ TUHS 6:2

(1936) 158-9



Duffield

Founded and built 1766-1867

archive material

PRO(Derbyshire 26, C 1750-73, 1806-35).

printed sources

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Duffield]’ TUHS 6:2

(1936) 148-162

Dukinfield

Founded 1678, built 1708, Old Chapel 1840

archive material

Tameside RO (NU1/61; NU/2 1-72);

PRO(Cheshire 24, C 1676-1713 and 1762-1840, Ma 1676-1713, B 1761-93, 1837-38).

printed sources

Aspland, R. B. History of the old Nonconformity in Dukinfield (1845)

Doel, David Old Chapel [Dukinfield] and the Unitarian story (London. Lindsey Press,

1994)




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Dukinfield]’ TUHS

6:3 (1937) 246-261

Gordon, Alexander Historical account of Dukinfield Chaoel and its school

(Manchester, 1896)


descriptive of the Congregational and old Presbyterian churches in the county

volume 5 (1890-93) pp. 287-295

Egerton

Walmsley Chapel, Founded 1671, built 1713

archive material

Church;

PRO(Lancashire 233, C 1763-1837, B 1792-1837);

Unitarian College Collection (UCC/4/7A).

printed sources


(Manchester, 1896) p.180-181


Kenworthy, Fred ‘The story of Walmsley Unitarian Chapel [Lancashire]’ 1 TUHS 9:1

(1947)1-20

Fred Kenworthy ‘The story of Walmsley Chapel [Lancashire] 2’ TUHS 9:2 (1948) 57-

77



pp. 54-64



136

Elland

Founded 1685, built Southern MH or Southgate Chapel 1697, Christ Church,

Huddersfield Rd 1866-1914.

archive material

PRO(Yorkshire 100, C 1741-1816, B 1777-1813);

Leeds Mill Hill Chapel records(90);

Yorkshire Unitarian Union records.

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Elland] ’ TUHS 6:3

(1937) 246-261

Enfield

archive material

printed sources

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Enfield]’ TUHS 6:3

(1937) 246-261

Evesham

Founded 1690, built Oat St 1737

archive material

Church;

Hereford and Worcester RO (898.4;f898.8);

PRO (Worcestershire 17, C1778-1837, B 1822-36);

National Library of Wales (Diary of Timothy Davies).

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Evesham] ’ TUHS

6:3 (1937) 252-3

Smith, Kenneth Gill The story of an old meeting house being a short account of Oat

Street (Unitarian) Chapel, Evesham, and its congregation (Evesham, W & H Smith

Ltd, 1937)



Exeter

Bow Meeting

archive material

PRO (Devon 49, C 1687-1837, Cand B 1818-22, B 1748-1824, 1824-37,1773-1810)

see Exeter George's Meeting.

Mint Meeting

Founded and built 1719-1810 united with George's M

PRO (Devon 49, C1687-1837, C and B 1818-22, B 1748-1824, 1824-37,1773-1810)

see Exeter George's Meeting.

George’s Meeting

Founded 1662, built James's M 1687, George's M South St 1760-1984;

Devon RO (71/18); Dr Williams's Library (38. 53-4; 38.58 94K17 Odgers);

PRO(Devon 49, C 1687-1837, C and B 1818-22, B 1748-1824, 1824-37, 1773-1810).

printed sources

Brockett, Allan A. ‘The Presbyterian Committee of Thirteen in Exeter’ TUHS 11:4

(1958) 128-146

Brockett, Allan A. ‘The attack on Nonconformists in Exeter after the withdrawal of

the Declaration of Indulgence’ Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society

8(????) 89-93

Brockett, Allan A. Nonconformity in Exeter, 1650-1875 (MA thesis, University of

Exeter, 1960) [copy at DWL]

Brockett, Allan, A. Nonconformity in Exeter, 1650-1875 (1962)


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Exeter] ’ TUHS 6:3

(1937) 246-261

Hickmott, Arthur ‘George’s Meeting House, Exeter’ TUHS 5:4 (1934) 384-392

George’s Meeting, South St., Exeter and Bowden Hill Unitarian Church, Crediton: year

book, 1959-60 [1960]

Kenrick, Timothy Private register of baptisms 1788-93, 1797, 1794-1804 2 volumes

(DWL MSS 38.53-4)



Failsworth, see Manchester, Failsworth

Falmouth and Flushing

Founded 1812-54

archive material

Cornwall RO (little original material).

printed sources

Murch, Jerom A history of the Presbyterian and General Baptist Churches in the

west of England with memoirs of some of their pastors (London, 1835) pp.534-546

Ruston, Alan ‘Unitarianism in Cornwall’ TUHS 19:3 (1989) 168-180

Filby

Founded and built OM 1706-1940

archive material

Norfolk RO . FC2/15-23).

The few remaining Mss have been transcribed (copy at Norfolk RO).

printed sources


‘Filby Dissenting Chapel 1705-1940’ TUHS 20:3 (1993) 216-217

Saul, Joan and Tooke, Colin Filby Dissenters Chapel 1705-1940 (1992)

Norfolk Unitarians: congregations and chapels outside Norwich (1997) pp. 115-17

Findern

Founded 1690 Built OM ?-1866

archive material

PRO(Derbyshire 27, C 1785-94).

printed sources

McLachlan, Herbert ‘Nonconformity at Findern’ Essays and Addresses (Manchester

University Press, 1950) pp. 165-166

Flagg

Founded and built 1839-1963; This chapel was then used as an Anglican church

whilst still owned and occasionally used by Unitarians, but it has since been

converted into a private residence.

archive material

Sheffield CL (VCR 1997. 1-2);

Unitarian College Collection (UCC/4/8/17) [typescripts];

see Manchester Unitarian District Association records.

printed sources




Framlingham

Founded 1660, built OM 1717

archive material

Church;

PRO(Suffolk 20, C 1752-1837, B 1792-1836);

Suffolk RO (FK4/2).

printed sources

Amey, Alfred ‘The Old Meeting, Framlingham’ TUHS 1:1 (1916) 88-92

Amey, Alfred [6 letters] (1909) [UHS15]


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Framlingham]’ TUHS

6:3 (1937) 246-261

Frenchay

Founded and built 1691

archive material

Church;

PRO (Gloucestershire 59, C 11814-337, B 1806-37).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Frenchay] ’ TUHS

6:3 (1937) 260-1



Plaster, Andrew J. The Unitarian Organ Family and their Descendents (privately

printed 2002)



Fulwood, see Sheffield, Fulwood

Gainsborough

Founded 1672, built Trinity St; Beaumont St 1721, 1928-74;

archive material

North Midland Unitarian Association;

PRO (Lincolnshire 18, C 1707-1809,1785-96, 1811-17, 1820-36).

printed sources

Clark-Lewis, W. R. The foundation and history of Beaumont Street Church,

Gainsborough (Gainsborough, 1912)


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Gainsborough,]’

TUHS 6:4 (1938) 379-386

Gateacre, see Liverpool, Gateacre

Glossop

Founded 1871, built 1875, Fitzalan St 1896

archive material

Tameside Archives NU1/39;

Sheffield City Archives (HCD/Box 116/7/1-10);

Glossop Heritage Society.

printed sources




Gloucester

Founded 1662, built Barton St 1699-1967, now meets Friends MH

archive material

Somerset RO(D/N/wu 4);

Shrewsbury PL (Astley papers1067);

PRO (Gloucestershire 26, C1740-1836, B 1785-1836).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Gloucester]’ TUHS

6:4 (1938) 383-4

Lloyd, W. A brief account of the foundation and history of the Protestant Dissenting

Meeting-House in Barton Street, Gloucester, 1699 (1899)





Godalming

GB Founded 1783, built Meadrow 1789

archive material

Church;

Surrey RO Guildford (141/1-33).

printed sources


Houghton, C. F. In search of a minister: a profile of Meadrow Unitarian Chapel,

Godalming (Godalming, 1983)

Kensett, Emily 'Meadrow Chapel, Godalming' The Inquirer (1900) 573-4, 579-80.

602-3

Great Hucklow

Founded and built 1696, 1795

archive material

Church;

PRO (Derbyshire 33, C 1789-1826).

printed sources

Head, G Far-off magic: the story of Unitarian commitment to providing holiday and

convalescent homes (Great Hucklow: The Nightingale Centre, 2006)

Miller, Yvonne R. The history of the Old Chapel Great Hucklow 1696-1996 (Tideswell,

1996)

The Old Chapel Great Hucklow, faith & foundation 1662-1962 [duplicated leaflet]



Stokes, J. L. Hucklow and its history (Great Hucklow, Privately printed, 1976)

[includes article by Arthur Vallance on the Unitarian Holiday Homes]

[newspaper cutting] (1897) [UHS15]

Great Yarmouth

Founded 1644, built OM Middlegate St?, 1845 Greyfriars Way, 1954

archive material

Norfolk RO(FC2);

PRO (Norfolk 70, C 1706-1837, B1785-1837);

Middlegate United Reformed Church, founded 1732 as a secession, has early

records; others destroyed in WW2.

printed sources


Norfolk Unitarians: congregations and chapels outside Norwich i (1997) pp.10-14

Guildford

archive material

Surrey RO Guildford (142/1-33).

Godalming records have many Guildford references.

printed sources


Gulliford

Founded 1662, built Gulliford 1689, 1774, Lympstone 1820-before 1900

archive material

Exeter George's M;

Devon RO (2861 D/R1) Topsham register with Gulliford entries;

PRO(Devon 109, C 1673-1828, B 1786-1836)

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Gulliford]’ TUHS 6:4

(1938) 379-386

Murch, Jerom A history of the Presbyterian and General Baptist Churches in the west


Hale Barns

Founded 1662, built Hale Chapel 1723

archive material

Church;


PRO (Cheshire 27, C 1752-1836).

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Hale]’ TUHS 6:4

(1938) 379-386

Gordon, Alexander The story of Hale Chapel and its ancestry (Manchester, H.

Rawson & Co,. 1924)

Bayley, Phyliss I remember: memoirs of Phyliss Bayley (Hale Unitarian Church, n.d.

but 20th century)

Halifax

Founded 1672, built 1696, Northgate End Chapel 1872-1979

archive material

Calderdale Archives Dept;

Shrewsbury PL (Astley papers 1067);

PRO(Yorkshire 132, C 1747-1837, B 1812-37).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Halifax]’ TUHS 7:1

(1939) 64-75

McLachlan, Herbert ‘[Review article of] The Story of Northgate-End Chapel, Halifax’

TUHS 9:1 (1947) 41-46

Millson, F. E. A bicentenary memorial: two hundred years of the Northgate-End

chapel, Halifax (1896)

Peaston, A. Elliott and Eccles, Robert & Clarissa The story of Northgate End Chapel,

Halifax (n.d.)

Manual (1892) pp. 41 [UHS15]

Halstead

archive material

printed sources

Evans, George Eyre Vestiges of Protestant Dissent (Liverpool, 1897) pp.100

Hapton


archive material

PRO(Norfolk 23, C 1803-28, B 1808-34).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [ Hapton]’ TUHS 7:1

(1939) 64-75

Nettlefold, J. K. Hapton Chapel (1930) [edited, updated and reprinted in Norfolk

Unitarians: congregations and chapels outside Norwich (1997) pp. 5-9

Hastings

Founded 1858, South Terrace 1868

archive material

Church;

Unitarian College Collection (C12).

printed sources


Hilton, Denbigh The Unitarian Free Christian Church, South Terrace, Hastings, 1867-

1967 Centenary: a booklet to commemorate (St. Leonards on Sea, 1967)

Headcorn

GB Founded about 1775, built 1819, joined Baptist Union 1915

archive material


see also Kent and Sussex U Christian Association records.

PRO (Kent59, C 1731-1837, B 1780-1837).

printed sources

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Headcorn]’ TUHS

7:1 (1939) 64-75

Heaton Moor

Founded 1893-1910

archive material

Unitarian College Collection (C21).

printed sources

Heywood

Founded 1856, built Brittain Hill 1860-1965.

archive material

Bolton Central Library NUL(11/1);

Lancashire RO (OL11 5XT).

printed sources




Hardman, C. A historical sketch of the rise and progress of Unitarianism in Heywood

(1882)



pp.86-89

Hinckley

Founded 1672, built GM Baines Lane 1722

archive material

Church;

Dr Williams's Library (94K20);


PRO(Leicestershire 14, C 1706-82, 1773-1837,B 1813-37).

printed sources



23-26


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Hinckley]’ TUHS 7:1

(1939) 64-75

Hewis, Peter Conducted on a liberal plan [Great Meeting, Hinckley and education]

(duplicated, n.d.)

[Jones, Herbert H. C.] H.H.C.J. Souvenir of bi-centenary The Great Meeting, Hinckley

1722-1922

Hindley

Founded and built 1641, Market St 1700

archive material

Church;


PRO (Lancashire 93, C1644-1836, .Ma 1644-77, B 1642-1754) .

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Hindley]’ TUHS 7:1

(1939) 64-75

Jones, J. Islan ‘The struggle between conformists and nonconformists in Hindley

Chapel ’ TUHS 7:1 (1939) 31-49; 7:2 (1940) 139-162

Jones, J. Islan ‘The history of the Presbyteraian or Protestant Dissenting Chapel,

Hindley . . . 1700-1812 ’ TUHS 7:2 (1940) 139-162



volume 4 (1890-93) pp. 7-13

Taylor, K. T. tr. ‘The registers of Hindley, 1644-1698’ Lancashire Parish Register

Society 138 (1995)

Lowe, J. ‘The case of Hindley Chapel, 1641-98’ Transactions of Lancashire and

Cheshire Antiquarian Society for 1957 67 (1958) 45-74



90-91

Hollywood, see Birmingham, Kingswood

Honiton

GB Founded eighteenth century, Bridge MH High St - 1860

archive material

possibly PRO (Devon 56,C 1837) .

printed sources

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Honiton]’ TUHS 7:1

(1939) 64-75



Horely and Nutfield, see Turner's Hill

Horsham

GB Founded 1648, built Worthing Rd 1721

archive material

West Sussex RO (B2);


Unitarian College Collection (D9; D11);

PRO (Sussex 32, C 1669-1836, B1722-69, 1771-1837);

registers and Mis have been transcribed (Dr Williams's Library and RO).

printed sources

Caffyn, John Sussex believers: Baptist marriages in the 17th and 18th centuries

(Churchman Publishing, 1988)


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Horsham]’ TUHS

7:1 (1939) 64-75

Kensett, Emily History of the Free Christian Church at Horsham from 1721 to 1921

(1921)

Montgomery, R. Mortimer. ‘The deeds of the Free Christian Church Horsham’ TUHS

1:1 (1916) 10-22

‘Burials in Sussex [Billingshurst and Horsham]’ TUHS 20:3 (1993) 211-212

‘The General Baptist (Unitarian Chapel, Worthing Road, Horsham [weddings]’ TUHS

19:4 (1990) 273

Horsham: The General Baptist Meeting House Volume 1 Registers and Memorial

inscriptions (1981); Volume 2 Trust deeds (1982)

Horwich

Founded 1890, built Church St 1896

archive material

Bolton CL and Museum (NUH);

Dr Williams's Library (95.22 Odgers) .

printed sources




92-96

Huddersfield

Founded 1846, built Fitzwilliam St 1854, 76 New North Rd 1962-73;

archive material

Leeds Mill Hill Chapel Records (86a),


printed sources


Hull

Founded 1662, built Bowl Alley before 1700, Park St 1881, 1978

archive material

Church;

Hull City RO;

PRO (Yorkshire 179, C 1705-55,1750-1824, 1828-35).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Hull]’ TUHS 7:1

(1939) 64-75

Raettig, Susan Hull Unitarian Church: a brief history (1995)

Raettig, Susan Hull dissenters campaign for social and religious reform 1811-1844

(1995)

Raettig, Susan Society for the reformation of manners 1697-1704 (1995)

Raettig, Susan Index to baptisms, marriages and burials at Hull Unitarian Church

1837-1915 (1995)

Raettig, Susan Index to Baptisms at Hull Unitarian Church 1742-1837 (in

preparation)

Whitaker, W. One line of the Puritan tradition in Hull: Bowl Alley Lane chapel (1910)

Hull, Unitarian Baptist

Unitarian Baptist founded about 1807

archive material

PRO (Yorkshire 183, C 1807-12).

printed sources

Hyde, Flowery Field

Founded and built Newton St 1831, 1878;

archive material

Church.

printed sources




Smith, J. K. Short history [of] Flowery Field Schools

Buckley, D. and Hodgson, I. ‘Things of our dreaming” ... a history of Flowery Field

Church, Hyde (1965)

[no title, no author] (no date) pp.8 [UHS15]

Hyde, Gee Cross

Founded and built Hyde Chapel, Stockport Rd 1708, 1848

archive material

Church;

PRO (Cheshire 69, C 1710-1837, B 1785-1837);

Tameside Local Studies L (NU1/ 58; NU4; DD 237 V).

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Gee Cross]’ TUHS

6:4 (1938) 379-386

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Hyde: Gee Cross]’

TUHS 7:1 (1939) 64-75

Hyde Chapel. Souvenir of bi-centenary ... 1708-1908 [1908]

Middleton, T. A history of Hyde Chapel, chiefly from the materials and reminiscences

of John Thornley (1909)

Peart, Ann ‘God is a Spirit’ in Furlong, Monica ed Our Childhoodhood’s Pattern:

Memories of Growing Up Christian (Mowbray, 1995) 95-105

Petford, Alan ‘ Horribile dictu: Unitarians and Ecclesiology in Northern England, an

account of the first adoption of the Gothic style for chapel building amongst

northern Unitarians’ in Skidmore, Chris ed. Chapels & Chapel People (Chapels

Society, Occasional Publication 5, 2010)

Vaughan, F. Heming ‘A brief history of Hyde Chapel and its schools’ Bazaar Souvenir

... 1925 [1925]

Vaughan, F. Heming The Dowson memorial window: a description (Hyde Chapel,

1951)

[No title, not text. a folder of 4 photographs -inside of church, Lucy Down and H.

Enfield Dowson and schools] (n.d.)

Idle

Founded 1853, built Highfield Rd 1858-1918

archive material

Yorkshire Unitarian Union;

Leeds Mill Hill Chapel records (89a).

printed sources


Ilkeston

Founded 1700, built OM High St 1719, 1869-1930

archive material

PRO (Derbyshire 40, C1735-1820).

printed sources

Burrows, F. [no title] (1907) pp.27-41 [UHS15]


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Ilkeston]’ TUHS 7:1

(1939) 64-75

Ilminster

Founded 1672, built OM East St 1719

archive material

Somerset RO (D/N/ilm);

PRO (Somerset 48,C 1726-1837, B 1786-1837).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Ilminister]’ TUHS

7:1 (1939) 64-75



Ipswich

Founded 1672, built St Nicholas St 1700

archive material

Church;

Suffolk RO;

PRO (Suffolk 34, C1738-1837).

printed sources

Cotgrove, Barbara & Pert, Keith G. Reflections on an old meeting house: an

appreciation of the achievement of the Ipswich Dissenters of 1699 (Ipswich, Unitarian

Meeting House, 1976)


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Ipswich]’ TUHS 7:1

(1939) 64-75

Godfrey, W. H. ‘Unitarian chapels in Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds’ Architectural

Journal 108 (1951) 121-6

Hewett, A. Phillip The story of an old meeting house: a short history of St. Nicholas

Old Meeting House, now called the Unitarian Meeting House, Friars Street, Ipswich

(Ipswich, Unitarian Press, 1959)

Tavener, L. [no title] (1908) pp.12 [UHS15]

Woolnough, F. [no title] (1900) pp.23

Kendal, Market Place

Founded 1687, built Market Pl 1720

archive material

Cumbria RO Kendal (WDFC/U);

Dr Williams's Library (95.23 Odgers; Unitarian College Collection D81);

PRO (Westmorland 6, C 1687-1838).

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Kendal]’ TUHS 7:1

(1939) 64-75

Nicholson, Francis 'Kendal (Unitarian) Chapel and its registers' Cumberland and

Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Socity Transactions NS 5 (1905)



of the nonconformist academies of Richard Frankland, M. A.., and Caleb Rotheram,

D.D. (Kendal, Titus Wilson, 1915)



volume 1 (1890-93) pp. 278-84

Smith, Leonard ‘H.V.Mills and the Westmorland Commune’ TUHS 20:4 (1994)

Kendal, Unitarian Baptist

The Unitarian Baptist congregation met in the Caledonian Rooms on the South side

of the market place c.1810-1818, when it merged with the Market Place Chapel.

archive material

c.1810-1818

‘James Kay and the Unitarian Baptists’ Nicholson, Francis and Axon, Ernest The older

nonconformity in Kendal: a history of the Unitarian Chapel in the Market Place with

transcripts of the registers and notices of the nonconformist academies of Richard

Frankland, M. A., and Caleb Rotheram, D. D. (Kendal, Titus Wilson, 1915) Chapter 30

pp. 395-401

printed sources

Bowers, J D : Joseph Priestley and English Unitarianism in America (Pennsylvania

State University Press, 2007)

Kenilworth

Founded and built Rosemary Hill about 1705, 1846-91

archive material

Warwickshire RO (HR 31);


printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Kenilworth]’ TUHS

7:1 (1939) 64-75

McLachlan, H. John ‘A Dickensian touch [Kenilworth] TUHS 19:1 (1987) 41-42



Sibree J. and Caston, M Independency if Warwickshire (1855) 215-21

Kidderminster

Founded 1781, built NM Church St 1782

archive material

Church;

Hereford and Worcester RO (898.4);

PRO(Worcestershire 20, C 1783-1836).

printed sources

Evans, E. D. Priestley A history of the New Meeting House, Kidderminster 1782-1900

(Kidderminster, 1900)




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Kidderminster]’

TUHS 7:1 (1939) 64-75

Pancheris, R. Notes on the restoration of the Baxter pulpit (duplicated sheets,1962)

Phelan, Margaret H. The story of the New Meeting House [Kidderminster]: home of

Richard Baxter’s pulpit and his spirit (Kidderminster, New Meeting House, 1974)



King’s Lynn (General)

printed sources

Norfolk Unitarians: congregations and chapels outside Norwich (1997) pp. 18-20

King’s Lynn

Founded 1701 Spinner Lane, Broad Street became Independent (moved 1838)

archive material

PRO(Norfolk 27, c 1754-86, 1788-99, 1804-18, 1822-37).

printed sources


King's Lynn

Presbyterian

archive material

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [King’s Lynn:

Presbyterian]’ TUHS 7:1 (1939) 64-75

King's Lynn

Salem

archive material

printed sources


Kingswood, see Birmingham, Hollywood

Kirkstead


archive material

Lincolnshire RO(TLE 32/11-15);

PRO (Lincolnshire 61,C 1822-36).

printed sources

Arundel, D. S. 'An ancient Presbyterian church' Prebyterian Historical Society of

England Journal 6 (????)

25-9



28


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Kirkstead]’ TUHS

7:1 (1939) 64-75

Knutsford

Founded 1672, built Brook St 1689

archive material

Church;

PRO(Cheshire 54, C and B 1792-1836).

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Knutsford ]’ TUHS

7:2 (1940) 179-190

McAlpine, Ian The origins of Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford, 1662-1696 (Knutsford

Unitarian Chapel, 1987) [photocopy of ms]

Thwaite, Mary and Strachan, William R. Brook Street Unitarian Chapel, Knutsford:

then and now (1972)

Payne, George A. An ancient chapel: Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford with Allostock

Chapel nr. Kutsford (Banbury, 1934)

Lancaster

Founded 1687, built St Nicholas St 1726, 1786, Scotforth Rd 1966-2005. Communion

Plate at Kendal.

archive material

Lancashire Archives (ULA6/1-11)

PRO(Lancashire 101, C and B 1771-1836).

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Lancaster]’ TUHS

7:2 (1940) 179-190

Hewitson, William Lancaster Unitarian Chapel: historical sketch (Lancaster, Observer

Office, 1893) pp.103

Hewitson, William [no title] (1890) pp.61 [UHS15]



volume 1 (1890-93) pp. 209-222

Swale, W. E. Three hundred years of dissent: a brief history of the Unitarian church in

Lancaster (1971) [duplicated]

Three hundred years of Dissent: Lancaster Unitarian Congregation 1687-1987



97-99

Leeds, Mill Hill

Founded 1662, built Mill Hill 1674, 1848

archive material

Church;

PRO (Yorkshire 227, C 1650-1716,1720-1837, B 1693-1716, 1754-1837).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre 'Leeds; Mill Hill' [Notes and Queries 83]TUHS 3:3 (1925) 276-82

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Leeds: Mill Hill ]’

TUHS 7:2 (1940) 179-190

McLachlan, Herbert ‘An epitaph in Mill Hill Chapelyard, Leeds’ TUHS 9:2 (1948) 113

Schroeder, W. L. Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds 1674-1924 (1924)

Wicksteed, Charles Lectures on the memory of the just; being a series of discourses

on the lives and times of the ministers of Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds from its foundation in

A.D. 1673, to the commencement of the nineteenth century (London, Chapman,

1847, 2nd ed 1849)

‘Mill Hill, Leeds and a Ministerial appointment 1817’ TUHS 10:1 (1951) 26-29

Leeds, Call Lane

Call Lane

archive material

Joseph Ryder Diary MS Unitarian College Collection, John Rylands University Library,

Manchester

printed sources

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Leeds: Call Lane]’

TUHS 7:2 (1940) 179-190

Jacob, Margaret C. and Kadane, Matthew ‘Missing, Now Found in the Eighteenth

Century: Weber's Protestant Capitalist’ American Historical Review 108:1 (February

2003) [based on the diary of Joseph Ryder of Call Lane Chapel Leeds in the UCM

Collection JRULM]

Kadane, Matthew The Watchful Clothier: The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Capitalist

(Yale University Press, 2013)

Leeds, Holbeck

Domestic Mission 1844, built Domestic St 1883-1929

archive material

Leeds Mill Hill Chapel records(78-85) .

Leeds, Hunslet

Founded 1863, built Joseph St 1868-1970

archive material

Leeds Mill Hill Chapel Records (94).

printed sources


Leicester

Founded 1845 Domestic Mission (Part of Great Meeting)

archive material

Leicestershire RO(N/U/179).

printed sources

Haynes, Barry Working-class life in Victorian Leicester: the Joseph Dare reports

(Leicestershire Libraries and Information Service, 1991) [Joseph Dare was Domestic

Missioner in Leicester]

Leicester, Great Meeting

Founded 1662, built Great Meeting, East Bond St 1708

archive material

Church;

Dr Williams's Library (95.25 Odgers);

Leicestershire RO (N/U/179/28-217);

PRO (Leicestershire 23, C 1711-40,1743-1838, B 1773-1837, 1786-93).

printed sources



33


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Leicester]’ TUHS 7:2

(1940) 179-190

Wykes, David L. 'Religious Dissent and the trade and industry of Leicester, 1660-

1720' (Ph.D thesis, University of Leicester, 1987)

Leicester, Narborough Road

Founded 1866, built Wellington St, later Narborough Rd 1875-1979

archive material

Leicestershire RO (N/U/179).

printed sources



36


[Gittins, E. and others] The centenary book of the Great Meeting Sunday Schools

(1883)

Thomas, A. H. A history of the Great Meeting, Leicester (1908)

[Unsworth, Anna] A brief history of and guide to Great Meeting, Leicester ff.2. dupl.

(1970)

Leigh

Founded 1887, built Twist Lane 1897-2000

archive material

Wigan Archive Service (D/NU4).

printed sources

Pipkin, J. Historical notes on the beginnings of Unitarianism in Leigh (1947)



100-102

Letchworth

Founded 1925, Howard Hall -1958

archive material

Hertfordshire RO (NU1/1-7)

printed sources

Ruston, Alan R. Unitarianism in Hertfordshire (1979) p.26

Miles, V. W. The Cloisters, Letchworth, 1907-1967 (Lawrence Cloisters Trust, 1967)

Lewes, Westgate

Founded 1662, built Westgate 1687, 1700

archive material

Church;

East Sussex RO (NU1);


printed sources

Connell, J. M. The story of an old meeting house (1926)


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Lewes]’ TUHS 7:2

(1940) 179-190

Goring, Jeremy ‘The Ridges of Westgate Chapel, Lewes’ Sussex Artchaeological

Collections 129 (1991) 210

Goring, Jeremy Burn Holy Fire: religion in Lewes since the Reformation (Lutterworth

Press, 2003)

Montgomery, R. M. ‘The deeds of Westgate Chapel, Lewes’ TUHS 1:2 (1917) 177-

190

Lewes, Southover

GB Founded ? Eastport Lane, united with Westgate Chapel 1818

archive material

see East Sussex RO(NU2 Ditchling).

printed sources

Connell, J. M. The story of an old meeting house (1926)

Whitley., W. T. 'General Baptists in Surrey and Sussex 1 Lewes-Ditchling Baptist

Quarterly 4 (????) 66-73

Lincoln

Founded 1662, built High St 1725

archive material

Church;


Minute Book 1820-1829 and Treasurer's account book 1842-79 [DWL MS 38.63].

printed sources



37-39


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Lincoln]’ TUHS 7:2

(1940) 179-190

Warren, John C. ‘From Puritanism to Unitarianism in Lincoln’ TUHS 2:1 (1919) 1-31

References in Lincoln Public Library Local History Catalogue

Lincolnshire Life (July 1975) 42 [interior view and note]

Fireside Magazine (November 1981) 12-14 [Magnus Ratter as interim

minister]

Green's Forgotten Lincoln p.159

Lincolnshire Tracts and Miscellany pp.50-51

Lincolnshire Echo 12 June 1975 (250th anniversary) and 23 July 1988

Lincolnshire Magazine 3 () 262

Lincolnshire Chronicle and Leader (1933) 42

Plumb, J Early Nonconformity in Lincoln vol. 2 (typescript in Lincoln Public Library)

pp.274-279

Liscard see Wallasey

Liverpool (General)

Armstrong, Richard Acland and others ed. Liverpool Unitarian Annual 1-4 (1892-5)

Roberts, Daphne and Steers, David eds Liverpool Unitarians: Faith and Action. Essays

exploring the lives and contributions to society of notable figures in Liverpool

Unitarian history. (MDMA, Liverpool, 2014)

Sellers, Ian 'Liverpool nonconformity: 1786-1914' (Ph.D thesis, University of Keele,

1969)

Steers, David 'The origin and development of the Domestic Mission movement in

Liverpool and Manchester' TUHS 21:2 (1996) 79-103

Liverpool, Universalist

Bold St Universalist Church founded 1825-?

archive material


printed sources

Liverpool, Domestic Mission

Bond Street, Domestic Mission

archive material

printed sources



Liverpool, Toxteth

Founded Liverpool Domestic Mission Society 1836, built Bedford St 1854, Mill St

1892-1978, Wellington Rd School (mission) 1978

archive material

Ancient Chapel of Toxteth records;

Liverpool RO (266 DOM).

printed sources

Ash, Reg and Mulhearn, Deborah Christianity, Community & Social Concern: A

History of the Liverpool Domestic Mission Society from 1836 (Liverpool: Wordscapes,

2010)

Ash, Reg and Mulhearn, Deborah Changes and Challenges: 2 A Personal History of

the Liverpool Domestic Mission Society from 1969-2014 (Liverpool: Wordscapes,

2014)

Cliffe, Bernard 'Memorials of the Ancient Chapel of Toxteth Park' in Roberts, Daphne

and Steers, David eds Liverpool Unitarians: Faith and Action. Essays exploring the

lives and contributions to society of notable figures in Liverpool Unitarian history

(MDMA, Liverpool, 2014)

Davis, Valentine David [no title] (1892) pp.16 [UHS15]



Holt, Anne A ministry to the poor being the history of the Liverpool Domestic Mission

Society, 1836-1936 (Liverpool, Henry Young & Sons Ltd, 1936)

Simey, Margaret B. Charitable effort in Liverpool in the nineteenth century

(Liverpool, 1951)

Liverpool, Everton

Founded and built North End Domestic Mission Bond St 1859-1909, amalgamated

with Roscommon St Chapel 1862 and Hamilton Road Domestic Mission 1896- 1974

archive material

Liverpool RO (266 NOR,288ULL/9/3).

printed sources




Piper, C. A. A century of service: the story of the Liverpool North End Domestic

Mission Society’s first hundred years 1859-1959 (Liverpool, 1959)

Liverpool, Garston


archive material

Records held by solicitor (Alsop,Stevenson, Bateson of Water Street, Liverpool).

printed sources

Liverpool, Gateacre

Founded 1690, built Gateacre Brow 1700

archive material

Church;



PRO (Lancashire 84, C 1711-1836) .

printed sources

‘A quaint trust deed [Gatacre Chapel, Liverpool]’ TUHS 9:1 (1947) 37-38

Cottrell, L. R. Gateacre Chapel 1690-1990 (Liverpool, 1990)

Dowson, H. Enfield Our spiritual ancestry: a sermon preached at Gateacre Chapel on

Sunday, October 14th, 1900, on the occasion of its bi-centenary (Manchester, H.

Rawson and Co., n.d.)






volume 6 (1890-93) pp. 192-207

Thornley, J. L Gatacre Chapel. Bicentenary celebration . . . 1900, historical sketch

(1900)

Liverpool, Hope Street

Founded 1693, built Kaye St 1707, Paradise St 1791, Hope St 1848-1962, YMCA Mt

Pleasant 1962-79

archive material

Liverpool RO (288 HOP;288 ULL/8/4; 288 ULL/9/1; 900 MD; 288 HA/5/6);

Tameside Local Studies L(NU1/50-53);



PRO(Lancashire 115, C 1709-65 and 1770-1837).

printed sources




Hale, Frederick 'Sidney Spencer on Christianity, Pacifism and the Spanish Tragedy',

TUHS 23:3 (2005) 595 -614, with Editor's note on Sidney Spencer (1888-1974).

Roberts, H. D. Hope Street Church Liverpool and the allied nonconformity (Liverpool,

The Liverpool Booksellers Company Ltd., 1909)



volume 6 (1890-93) pp. 118-28

Steers, David An online article ‘The Church on Hope Street’, 17 May 2015, can be

found at https://velvethummingbee.wordpress.com/2015/05/17/the-church-on-

hope-street/.

Liverpool, Octagon

Founded 1762, built Octagon Chapel, Temple Court 1763-76

archive material

Liverpool RO (288ULL/8/1/2);


printed sources

‘Dissenters and a liturgy’ Roberts, H. D. Hope Street Church Liverpool and the allied

nonconformity (Liverpool, The Liverpool Booksellers Company Ltd., 1909) chapter 8

pp. 149-191




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Liverpool:Temple

Court (Octagon) ]’ TUHS 7:2 (1940) 179-190

Hill, Andrew [unpublished paper about Liverpool’s Octagon Chapel and liturgy]



volume 6 (1890-93) pp. 128-39

Liverpool, St Thomas Street

Founded St Thomas St 1822-?

archive material

Unitarian College Collection (D12),

Liverpool RO (288 HAL/15).

printed sources

Liverpool, Dingle

Founded and built 'Ancient Chapel of Toxteth Park' 1618, 1714

archive material

Church;

Liverpool RO (288. HAL 3/1-7);

Unitarian College Collection (Bl42; D12);

PRO(Lancashire 129a, C 1778-1855).

printed sources

Davis, Valentine D. Some account of the Ancient Chapel of Toxteth Park, Liverpool

from the year 1618 to 1883 and of its ministers, especially of Richard Mather the first

minister (Liverpool, Henry Young, 1884)




Evans, George Eyre ‘The Ancient Chapel of Toxteth park. Its original register, 1778-

1855’ TUHS 3: 4 (1926) 412-4

Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Liverpool: Toxteth]’

TUHS 7:2 (1940) 179-190

Hall, Lawrence ‘Toxteth Park Chapel in the 17th century’ TUHS 5:4 (1934) 351-383

Hall, Lawrence 'The Ancient Chapel of Toxteth Park and Toxteth School' Transactions

of Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 87 (1936) 25-57

McLachlan, Herbert The Ancient Chapel of Toxteth: an address at the 334th

anniversary 30th November 1952 (n.d.)



volume 6 (1890-93) pp. 66-110

Christian Reformer (June 1862)

‘The Park Chapel’ Ancient Liverpool pp. 25-27 and plate 48

Liverpool, Sefton Park

Founded and built Castle Hey 1688, Benn's Garden 1727, Renshaw St 1811, Ullet Rd

1899

archive material

Church;

Liverpool RO (288ULL; 900MDI);

Dyfed RO (Acc 5132);


PRO (Lancashire 114, C 1734-1837, B 1819-37).

There is an unpublished transcription of the Renshaw St Church Burying Ground by

Marples and Co.,1903 .

printed sources

Evans, George Eyre A history of Renshaw Street Chapel and its institutions with some

account of the former chapels in Castle Hey and Benn’s Garden, Liverpool (London, C.

Green and Son, 1887)




Holt, Anne Durning ‘Benn’s Garden Chapel [Liverpool]’ TUHS 10:2 (1952) 91-101

Holt Anne Durning Walking together: a study in Liverpool nonconformity 1688-1938

(London, George Allen & Unwin, 1938)

[Jevons, T.] A few reminiscences of the old Benn's Garden Presbyterian Chapel, and

of Renshaw Street Unitarian Chapel (1868)

Jones, Ronald P. ‘Memories of the origin and building of Ullet Road Church,

Liverpool (1896-1899)’ TUHS 11:3 (1957) 77-82 [also published separately]

Mooney, Len A guide to Ullet Road Unitarian Church (Ullet Road Church, 1996)



volume 6 (1890-93) pp. 110-18

Webb, Robert K. Sketches for a moving portrait [for the 300th anniversary of Ullet

Road Church, Liverpool] (unpublished, 1989)

‘The new Unitarian church, Sefton Park, Liverpool: a new departure: I Reminiscences

of Renshaw Street Chapel, II Descriptive sketch’ Liverpool Daily Post (27th and 29th

May 1899) [reprinted as a pamphlet]

London

printed sources

First-(tenth) annual report of the London District Unitarian Society . . . 1851-(1860).

[DWL]

London Unitarian Register 1857-9 [DWL]

An account of the London Unitarian bazaar 1900 (1901)

Provincial Assembly of Non-Subscribing ministers and congregations of London and

the South Eastern Countiess Miscellaneous papers and letters 1889--1909 [DWL MS

12.94-106]

Ballantyne, John C. Pioneers: the story of London Unitarians and their churches

(London. Lindsey Press. 1950)

Ruston, Alan Robert A wide & fast-flowing river: Unitarians together in London and

the South East from 1850-2000 (Croydon: Van der Heijden Publishing, 2000) 30 p.

Sadler, Thomas Unitarians of London 50 years ago: reminiscences by the late

Thomas Sadler; ed. F.K.F. London: Privately printed, 1900. 55 p., illus.

Tarrant, William George The London Unitarians and the churches where they

worship (1900)

Tarrant, William George [Bazaar Book] (1900) [This is probably different from above]

Wilson, Walter The history and antiquities of dissenting churches and meeting

houses in London, Westminster and Southwark 4 volumes (1808-14)

London, Acton

Founded 1902, Built 1906 - c. 1944/7 Creffield Hall, Creffield Road united with

Richmond

London, Barbican

Founded 1654, Gun Alley, Little Moorfields 1669, Paul's Alley, Barbican ? - 1779

(amalgamated at Barbican with Glasshouse Yard 1768), Worship Street morning

1779-1878, Bethnal Green ???? -????, Winchmore Hill ????- [Baptist Union since

1916]

archive material

Dr Williams's Library (38.73, 38.74, 38.77);

Minutes of Church meetings 1739-1768 [DWL MS 38.74];

List of members 1739-1763 [DWL MS 38.73];

Register Book containing a register of the name of every individual person baptized

also the Baptistory ... and an inventory of all the garments furniture and utencils

belonging thereunto . . . 1716- [1789 (pages to 1793 torn out)] [No names of

candidates after 1720.] With accounts, etc. [DWL Ms. 38.75];

Minute Book 1695- [Baptist Historical Society Whitley London p.112].

printed sources

Burgess, W. H. 'A public library and baptistery in the Barbican, 1694' Baptist

Historical Society Quarterly 6 (????) 63-71

'Paul's Alley, Barbican, 1695-1768' Baptist Historical Society Quarterly 4 (????) 46-

541

Wilson, Walter The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting

Houses in London, Westminster, and Southwark volume 3 (London, 1808) pp.228-260

London, Bell Street


London, Bermondsey

Founded 1882, built Fort Rd 1888-1940

archive material


printed sources


London, Bermondsey

Founded and built 1754 Gainsford St., Blacksfields

[Baptist which became Unitarian: Whitley The Baptists of London 54]

London, Bethnal Green

Founded 1832, built Spicer St Domestic Mission 1836, Mansford St 1889

archive material

Church.

printed sources

London, Bishopsgate

Founded Hand Alley, Bishopgate Street ? New Broad St, Petty-France 1729-80

archive material

PRO (London 14 and 15, C1705-53, 1760-89).

Printed sources

Wilson, Walter The history and antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting

Houses in London, Westminster, and Southwark volume 1 (London, 1808) p.399;

volume 2 (1808) pp.189-229

London Blackfriars, Stamford Street

1. Founded 1662, built Tothill St before 1667, Princes St Westminster 1703,1799,

Stamford St 1823-1962;

2. Founded Southwark 'near the Maese' 1666, St Thomas St 1703 united with

Stamford St 1823;

archive material

Dr Williams's Library (38.124; 201.7; OD43);

PRO (London 166, C1723-1833);

Vestry Minute Book, 1751, with minutes 1751-3; 1795-1823 [Princes Street,

Westminster] [DWL MS fol. OD 43];

Extracts from old minute books of Princes Street and Stamford Street Chapels [DWL

MS 201.7].

printed sources


Spears, Robert History of Stamford Street church and its antecedents at Princes

Street, Westminster, and St. Thomas's Southwark [DWL MS 38.124]



[Prices Street, Westminster]



[St. Thomas's, Southwark]

London, Brixton

Founded and built Effra Road 1839, 1962

archive material

Church;

National Archives – Home Office (HO 266/114) [Inquiry into the 1981 Brixton

Disturbances (Scarman Inquiry): Evidence and Papers];

Worcestershire Archive Service (898.4/12107/2/4).

printed sources


Jewsbury, John Brixton Unitarian Church: the first 150 years (1989)

Spedding, R. K. Resurgam: being the book of the Effra Road Unitarian Church,

Brixton (1941)

London, Catford

Founded 1897, built High St Lewisham 1910, 41 Bromley Rd Catford 1968

archive material

Church.

Dr Williams's Library (OD 15-16);

PRO (London 52,B 1824-36);

Kent and Sussex U Association records Dr Williams's Library (OD 329/2)

printed sources

Dennington, Gordon The Lewisham Unitarians 1897-1997: a commemorative booklet

compiled from congregational records (Lewisham Unitarian Meeting, 1997)

Reeve, Wilfrid E. A history of Lewisham Unitarian meeting (Lewisham, 1981)

London, Clapham

South London Universalist Church, Cavendish Rd, Clapham. Founded ?-1951;

Andover Harvard Theological L Cambridge MA USA (bMS 417 and bMS 369/ 36(12)) .

Seaburg, Alan ‘The Last Universalist Ministers in Britain: George MacGregor-Reid and

Arthur Peacock’ TUHS 23:2 (2004) 530-562

London, Croydon

Founded 1880, built Wellesley Road 1883, Friends Road 1958

archive material

Church.

printed sources


Moore, Francis W. ‘The early days of the Free Christian Church, Croydon’ Open Door:

the newsletter of the Croydon Unitarian & Free Christian Church (1995)

Thomas, Roger P. D. The first hundred year of the Unitarian and Free Christian

Church in Croydon 1870-1970 (Croydon, The Unitarian and Free Christian Church,

1970)

London, Croydon Domestic Mission

Founded 1886, built Croydon Domestic Mission Dennet Hall 1888-1931

archive material

Croydon CL.

printed sources

London, Deptford

GB Founded and built 1674, 1802-1967

archive material

Church Book 1674-1710 and 1843?-92 with Register of Births 1785-1813 and deaths

1793-1821 2 volumes [DWL MS. OD. 15-16]

printed sources


London, Dingley Place

Founded Domestic Mission 1835, built 1877-1940

London, Spicer Street (now Buxton Street)

Davis, Valentine David The London Domestic Mission Society . . . 1835-1935 (1935)

Ruston, Alan ‘London’s East End Domestic Mission’ TUHS 21:2 (April 1996) 117-135

London, Dunning's Alley, Bishopsgate Street GB

Founded 1652-1729

printed sources



London, Enfield

Founded 1662, Baker St MH

archive material

PRO(Middlesex 7, C 1827-37).

printed sources

London, Enfield And Barnet


archive material

Church

printed sources

London, Essex St see Kensington

London, Finchley

Founded 1902, built Ballards Lane 1911-1940

London, Finsbury

Founded Parliament Ct Artillery St Bishopsgate 1793, South Pl Finsbury 1824 –1927,

Red Lion Sq, now South Place Ethical Society;

archive material

Minutes of Parliament Court Chapel, later South Place, 1807-20, 1836-41, 1853-1963

and Annual Reports 1807-20, 1836-1965 [seen by Susan Budd when she was

preparing Varieties of unbelief: atheists and agnostics in English society 1850-1960

(London 1977) see p.297];

PRO (London 5 and 64,C 1791-1811, 1824-37).

printed sources

Blackham H. J. 'From Unitatianism to Ethical Humanism: the tradition of South Place

Ethical Society London' New Humanist (Spring 1981) and Religious Humanism 16:2

(Spring 1982) 50-58

Clark, Virginia 'Moncure Conway and the 'Woman Question' Ethical Record: the

proceedings of the South Place Ethical Society 105:9 (October 2000) 3-9

Conway, Moncure D. Centenary history of the South Place Society (1894)

Gleadle, Kathryn Radical Unitarians and the emergence of the women's rights

movement, 1831-51 (London, St. Martin's Press, 1995)

Ratcliffe, S. K. The story of South Place (Watts, 1955)

Librarian South Place Ethical Society at 25 Red Lion Square London WC1R 4RL (0171

242 8037)

London, Forest Gate

Founded 1888 built Upton Lane 1893- c.1975, now meets elsewhere

archive material

Church

printed sources


London, Clerkenwell St. John's Square Jewin St

Free Thinking Christians

Founded 1808, built 1832, amalgamated with Dingley Place Mission 1877

archive material

see Battle Free Thinking Christian Church .

printed sources

Church of God: its constitution, government and laws . . . the Crescent, Jewin Street,

London (1814)


Houses in London, Westminster, and Southwark volume 2 (London, 1808) p.523

London, Glasshouse Yard GB

GB Founded and built Glasshouse Yd ? 1768, moved to and absorbed Barbican,

Paul's Alley 1768, Worship St 1779 - , Bethnal Gn ? Winchmore Hill joined Baptist

Union 1915;

archive material

Dr Williams's Library (OD330/2; 317/2);

PRO(London 193, B 1785-1837).

printed sources

The Charity of Peter Denning [Glasshouse Yard] (London, General Baptist Assembly,

1988) [Occasional Paper 5]

Payne, E. SA. 'The Glasshouse Yard Minute Book, 1682-1740' Baptist Quarterly 7

(????) 321-4

London, Golders Green

Founded and built Weech Rd Child's Hill 1903, Hoop Lane 1925

archive material

Church;

London School of Economics, The Women's Library (2/SJA/1/K31).

printed sources

Ross, Alistair Specimen years in Weech Road and Hoop Lane, 1901 to 1971 (London,

All Souls Unitarian Church, 1975)

London, Goodmans Fields

Seventh Day GB Mill Yard

Founded ?- 1905

archive material

PRO (London 113, C 1732-1837).

The Mill Yard minutes: being the Church book of the Seventh Day General Baptist

Congregation meeting at Mill Yard, Goodman's Fields, 1673-1840, with further

entires to 1867 [photographic reproduction DWL MS 533.B.1]

printed sources

Ball, Bryan W. The seventh-day men: sabbatarians and sabbatarianism in England

and Wales, 1600-1800 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994) [chapter 3 'The Mill Yard

Church' pp. 77-101]

Davies, C. Maurice Unorthodox London: or, phases of religious life in the Metropolis

2nd revised edition (London, Tinsley Brothers) 1876 (New York, Augustus M. Kelley)

1969 pp.135-141 ‘Saturday with the Seventh-Day Baptists’

Elwell, C. J. L. The iron Elwells(sic.) ; a family social history (Stockwell, 1992)

Larsen, Timothy '"How many sisters make a brotherhood?" A case study in gender

and ecclesiology in early nineteenth-century English Dissent' Journal of Ecclesiastical

History 49:2 (April 1998) 282-292

Micklewright, F. H. Amphlett ‘A congregation of Sabbatarian and Unitarian Baptists’

Notes and Queries 191:5 (7 September 1946) 95-9.

Micklewright, F. H. Amphlett ‘Some further notes on Mill Yard Meeting House’

Notes and Queries 191:7 (5 October 1946) 137-40; 192: 8 (19 October 1946) 161-3;

191:9 (2 November 1946) 185-9

Micklewright, F. H. Amphlett ‘A Mill Yard Layman [Sir William Tempest]’ Notes and

Queries 192 (1947)

Priestley, Joseph The triumph of truth; being an account of the trial of Mr. Elwall for

publishing a book in defence of the unity of God (1791)

London, Gower Street ‘Mr. Antill in lower room of dancing academy next to Gower

St. Station’

Davies, C. Maurice Heterodox London or phases of free thought in the Metropolis

(1874) (New York, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969) pp.126-137 [‘Advanced Unitarianism’]

London, Hackney

Founded 1665, built Mare St 1668, Gravel Pit Ram Place off Chatham Place 1716,

New Gravel Pit Chatham Place 1858-1969

archive material

PRO London 78, B 1812-37);

Dr Williams's Library (burialregister);

Hackney Archives Dept (D/E 237GRA).

The MIs have been transcribed andprinted (1880s).

Burial Register 1812-1929 [DWL MS O.D. 47]

Minute Books, Reports, etc 1944-67 [DWL MS O.D. 49-51]

printed sources

Report of the committees, and connected institutions, The Friendly Society and the

Hospital Guild (1905)

Note: Priestley and the Hackney Congregation, TUHS 23:2 (2004) 528-529

Acosta, Ana M. ‘Spaces of Dissent and the Public Sphere in Hackney, Stoke

Newington, and Newington Green’ Eighteenth-Century Life - Volume 27, Number 1,

Winter 2003, pp. 1-27

Davies, John. An account of the Old Gravel Pit meeting house, Hackney, with short

notices of its... ministers since its erection in 1716 (London: Jackson & Walford, 1853)

48 p.


Gravel Pit Meeting House, Hackney. Inscriptions from the New Gravel Pit (Unitarian)

churchyard, Paradise Place, Hackney (London: Mitchell & Hughes, 1883) 20 p.

Gray, Mike ‘Joseph Priestley in Hackney’ Enlightenment and Dissent 2 (1983) 107-

110

Green, E. H. A short history of the new Gravel Pit Church Sunday School (1913)

Ruston, Alan ‘Radical nonconformity in Hackney 1805-1845’ TUHS 14:1 (1967) 1-9

Ruston, Alan ‘The Gravel Pit Chapel, Hackney’ TUHS 16:3 (1977) 136-137

Ruston, Alan ‘Price and Priestley at Gravel Pit Chapel, Hackney, The Price-Priestley

Newsletter 4 (1980) 26-29

Ruston, Alan ‘Joseph Priestley at the Gravel Pit Chapel Hackney: the Collier ms’

Enlightenment and Dissent 2 (1983) 111-120

Ruston, Alan ‘Joseph Priestley at Hackney: the Collier ms; an additional note


Ruston, Alan Unitarianism and early Presbyterianism in Hackney (Privately printed,

1980)

Ruston, Alan ‘Unitarian gothic: rebuilding in Hackney 1858’ in Watson, Isobel ed.

Hackney History 1 (1995)

Whitehead, J. T. A historicsal sktch of the congregation now meeting in the New

Gravel-Pit Church, Hackney(1902)

David L Wykes 'We have lived very quietly and comfortably here Joseph Priestley at

Hackney September 1791- April 1794, TUHS 23:2 (2004) 513-527.

London, Hampstead

Founded 1687, built Red Lion Hill 1691, Rosslyn Hill 1862

archive material

Church;

Dr Williams's Library (38.127-38.192);

Minute books 1822-1954, Account books 1752-1903 and other papers and

congregational records [DWL MS 38.127-92].

printed sources


Harvey, Paul ed. Rosslyn Hill Chapel: a short history 1692-1973 (London, Rosslyn Hill

Chapel, 1973)

Rowntree, Ruth Religious Devils in Hampstead (Oxford, 2004)

Sadler, T. 'Rosslyn Hill chapel : a retrospect of 200 years.' Hampstead Annual (1898),

98-113.

Sadler, Thomas and others History of th e Rosslyn Hill congregation, Hampstead

(1909) pp.48

Sharpe, Henry The meeting house on Red Lion Hill and Rosslyn Hill Chapel Hapstead

(London, The Priort Press, 1914)

London, Highgate Hill


archive material


printed sources


London, Horsleydown GB

Founded 1624 Dockhead/Shad Thames 1669 - Fair street 1698-1771, Pinner's Hall -

1779, Berry Street, Worship street 1781-1801 Deptford 1801, merged with Deptford

1804

printed sources

Price, S. J. 'Repairing a meeting-house in 1720' Baptist Quarterly 5 (????) 28-9


Houses in London, Westminster, and Southwark volume 4 (London, 1814) pp.256-

263, 342-3

London, Ilford

Founded 1906, built High Rd 1909-79

archive material


London, Islington

Founded 1671 Meeting House Ct, Blackfirars 1692, St Annes 1721, Little Carter Lane

1734

Upper St 1862, 1958

archive material

Church;

Dr Williams's Library;

PRO (London31, C 1711-57, 1760-1811).

printed sources



(1874) (New York, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969) pp.325-350 [‘Ritualistic Unitarianism’]

Gordon, Alexander Unity Church, Islington: its early history. 1667-1758 (London:

Essex Hall, 1918) p.24

Ierson, Henry History of an English Presbyterian Church: a discourse delivered at the

chapel in Carter Lane (1861)

Titford, Caroline History of Unity Church, Islington, London from the foundation of

the congregation (1667 to 1912) (London, Book Room Essex Hall, 1912)



[no author, no title] (1906) pp.6 [UHS15]

London, Kensington

Founded 1774, built Essex St Strand 1778, Palace Gardens Terrace 1887, 1977

archive material

Church;



London Guildhall L . (MS 11936/257, 260);

PRO(London 60, C 1814-27).

printed sources

A lawyer ‘The deeds of Essex Chapel [London]’ TUHS 1:3 (1918) 262-275

Ballantyne, John C. ‘Origins of Essex Church, Notting Hill Gate, Lindon’ TUHS 7:2

(1940) 131-138


(1874) (New York, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969) pp.311-324 [‘the little church in the

Mall’]

‘Essex Church: the boy monument [to founders of Sunday Schools]’ TUHS 7:2 (1940)

208-209


Hague, Howard Essex Church: some notes on its history 1774-1986 (Essex Church,

1986)

Williams, Raymond Essex Church in Kensington 1887-1987: history of a Unitarian

cause (1987)



London, Kentish Town

Founded 1854, built Clarence Rd 1855-1937

archive material


printed sources


‘Kentish Town Unitarian Church’ Christian Life (22 October 1921)

Reports of the Committee 1857-[1927] DWL [Wanting 1859, 1864, 1867-8, 1890-91,

1901-2, 1905-6, 1909-11, 1919

London, Kilburn

Founded 1893, built Quex Rd 1897, 1908-65

archive material

Dr Williams's Library (OD48).

Trust deed and some other papers [DWL O.D. 48]

printed sources


London, Lewisham see London Catford

London, Leytonstone

Founded 1912, built Knotty Gn Lea Bridge Rd 1931-60

archive material


printed sources

London, Limehouse

Elsa St founded 1884, Unitarian Church Built 1895-1946

archive material

Unitarian College Collection (D D Evans papers).

printed sources

London, Marylebone

Founded and built York St, St James's Sq 1824, Little Portland St 1833, University

Hall, Gordon Sq 1909-13

archive material

Dr Williams's Library (38.47-50; 38.100);

PRO (London 150, C 1825-37).

Register of Baptism 1854-1910 [DWL MS 38.50]

Register of Marriages 1854-1909 3 volumes [DWL MS 38.47-9]

Account book 1872-95 [DWL MS 38.100]

printed sources


Perris, H. S. A sketch of the history of Little Portland Street Chapel, London [1832-

1900] (1900) pp.40

London, Old Jewry

Founded at Currier's Hall 1672, Jewin St 1692, Built Old Jewery 1701, 1808

archive material

Guildhall Library archives 1711. L18.5;

PRO (London 138, .C 1716-1819).

printed sources


Houses in London, Westminster, and Southwark volume 2 (London, 1808) pp.302-

400; volume 3 (London, 1810) pp.354-357

London, Park GB became GB New Connexion

Founded 1652 Duke Street, Winchester Park – 1799, Duke Street, Winchester Park -

1799, Gravel Lane 1800

Printed sources



London, Parliament Court see London Finsbury

London, Peckham

Founded 1875, built Avondale Rd 1882-1946

archive material


printed sources


London, Poor Jewry Lane (later Jewry Lane), Crutched Friars

Founded ? – 1774

Printed sources



London, Putney

Founded 1882, built East Hill Wandsworth 1885 205, Upper Richmond Rd Putney

1985

archive material

see Richmond Church records.

printed sources

London, Richmond

Founded 1888, built Ormond Rd 1896

archive material

Church;

Richmond Public Library.

printed sources


Orr, Elizabeth The Unitarian congregation in Richmond 1888-1988 (London, 1988)

London, Rotherhithe

Founded ???? Jamaica Row ????, c.1780- 1783

Printed sources



London, Salters' Hall English Presbyterian

Printed sources

Wilson, Walter The history and antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting


London, South Place see London Finsbury

London, Stepney

Founded 1867, built College Chapel Stepney Gn 1875-1946

archive material

printed sources

Causebrook, A College Chapel Chimes (1942)


London, Stoke Newington

Newington Green, Founded 1686, built 1708

archive material

Hackney Archives Department (D/E 257 NEW);

Hackney Archives Department additional deposit - sub-committee 1961-7 (D/E/NEW

257 1/6].

printed sources

Acosta, Ana M. ‘Spaces of Dissent and the Public Sphere in Hackney, Stoke

Newington, and Newington Green’ Eighteenth-Century Life - Volume 27, Number 1,

Winter 2003, pp. 1-27

Anon. 'Notes of the early history of the Newington-Green congregation and of the

religious history of Islington.' Christian Reformer or Unitarian Magazine and Review,

ns, 17 (1861), 27-40.


Tayler, J. L. A little corner of London [Newington Green] (1925)

Thorncroft, Michael Trust in Freedom: the story of Newington Green Unitarian

Church 1708-1958 (London, 1958)

London, Stratford

Founded 1857, built West Ham Lane 1869

archive material

Church.

printed sources


Goddard, R. E. ‘West Ham Lane Unitarian Christian Church, Stratford [London] 1857-

1891 the first thirty years’ TUHS 18:1 (1983) 33-45

London, Theistic Church


(1874) (New York, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969) pp.274-310 [‘The Gospel of Hell Fires

according to Mr. Voysey’]

London, Uxbridge

Founded 1717 MH

archive material

PRO (Middlesex 26, C 1790-1836).

printed sources

London, Walthamstow

Built OM Marsh St 1796, Unitarian until 1825

London, Wandsworth

archive material

printed sources

Tarrant, W. G. [no title] (1903) pp.20

London, Welsh Congregation see under WALES

London, Westminster, Hart Street GB

1691-1738

printed sources



London, Westminster, Princes Street see London Blackfriars

London, White's Alley GB

Founded Spitafields 1612, Bell Alley Coleman St.; White's Alley, Aldersgate St 1672-

c.1743; Barbican (Paul's Alley) 1743-1781; Worship St 1781-1829; Trinity Pl Borough

1829-1833; 26 Coles St, Borough 1833-1849; Arnold's Place, Dockhead 1849-1864;

East Surrey Grove, Peckham 1864-1898

archive material

Dr Williams's Library (38.85); London Guildhall L (MS 592);

Minutes 1681-1786; 1797-1841 [Guildhall Library, London MS 592/1-4]

'Jul 9 1695 The names of ye members of ye congregation now meeting in Whites

Alley in Litle Moore Fields London' [also in this volume Minutes of the meetings of

the General Assembly of General Baptists, 1697-1704] [DWL MS 38.85]

printed sources

London, Wood Green

Founded 1890, built Newnham Rd 1891-1966

archive material


printed sources


London, Woolwich and Plumstead

Founded 1894, built 1917, Dallin Rd 1930-45

archive material


printed sources

London, Worship Street

1779-1878 Home of Barbican, Horsley Down, Glasshouse Yard and White's Alley

General Baptist Churches

Long Sutton (Lutton)

GB Founded 1700, joined Baptist Union 1915, closed 1930

archive material



Church Book of the [?General] Baptist Church, 1772-99 [DWL MS 38.76].

printed sources

Longton

archive material

printed sources


Loughborough

Founded 1672, built 1744, Victoria Rd 1864

archive material


Leicestershire RO (N/U/207/1-125);

PRO (Leicestershire 27, C 1791-1836, B 1791-1838).

printed sources



40-43

Burgess, W. H. History of the Loughborough Unitarian Congregation . . . with some

account of thee old Mountsorrel Meeting House (1908)


Lutton see Long Sutton

Luton

Fl 1909-20

archive material

‘Records, papers, letters and cuttings relating to the Liberal Christian and Unitarian

word and work in the borough of Luton, Bedford and the church founded in the

Good Templar’s Hall, Chapel St in 1909 by A. Weight Matthews 5 volumes 1909-

1912’ Manchester College, Oxford;

National Library of Wales (MS 13611B)

printed sources

Lydgate, see New Mill

Lye Waste

Founded 1790, built High St 1806, 1861, closed 1991

archive material

Worcestershire Archive Service 77 items

printed sources

‘A religious discussion society at Lye-Waste in 1790’ TUHS 7:1 (1939) 76-78

‘Preface of “Memorials of Dissenting Churches” [Stourbridge and Lye Waste]’ TUHS

6:1 (1935) 62-66

Brooks, Denis 'Requiem for a Chapel' Black Counrty Magazine 28:2 (1995) 35-37




Simpson, Charles The story of the Unitarian Chapel, Lye, 1790-1961 (1961)


Central England (HMSO, 1986) pp.25

Lympstone, see Gulliford

Lytham St. Annes

Founded 1905, built 1906, Channing Rd, Ansdell, 1930

archive material

Church;

Lancashire RO (DBX207/119).

printed sources

Macclesfield, King Edward Street

Founded 1672, built King Edward St 1690

archive material


PRO (Cheshire 43, C 1713-1837).

printed sources




Short, Harry Lismer ‘The gesture of the minister at the Lord’s Supper [Macclesfield]

TUHS 9:1 (1947) 28-34

Short, Harry Lismer ‘Macclesfield’s first Unitarian minister [John Palmer]’ TUHS

10:3 (1953) 142-147

Smith, Walter King Edward Street Chapel (Unitarian) (reprinted from The

Macclesfield Courier, 14 August 1947)

Macclesfield, Parsonage Street

Founded 1847-84 Parsonage St

archive material

Cheshire RO (EUC 3/18/23/1-2).

printed sources

Maidstone

Founded 1662, built Earl St 1736

archive material

Church;

PRO(Kent 68, C 1732-70, 1785-1825).

printed sources


Maidstone and Tovil

GB nineteenth century

archive material

Unitarian College Collection (D9; D62) .

printed sources

Malton

Founded and built Wheelgate 1715-1952

archive material

North Yorkshire RO (R/1/ML);

Yorkshire UUnion;

PRO (Yorkshire 275, C 1770-1837,B 1778-1836).

printed sources


Manchester (General)

printed sources

Head, Geoffrey Unitarianism in Manchester 1930-1988 - decline and adaptation

(Manchester, 1991)

R[awson], H. Historical sketch of the Memorial Hall, Manchester from . . . 1861, to . . .

1899 (1899)

Seed, John ‘Unitarianism, political economy and the antimonies of liberal culture in

Manchester, 1830-50’ Social History 7 (1982) 1-25

Manchester, Cross Street

Founded 1662, built 1694, 1959, 1997

archive material

Church;

Manchester CL Archives Dept (MS027.842M10; MS274.273M37; MSf285.2P8;

MS922.81G1; MSf929.5M28; M22/1/3/7; MISC/170);

John Rylands Univ L(Lancashire 1st classis minutes etc; poorbook);

Unitarian College Collection (A113, D4, UCC/4/1);

PRO (Lancashire143, C 1712-1838, B 1785-87 and 1791-1840).

printed sources

Illustrations of Cross Street Chapel, the first home of Nonconformity in Manchester

(1917)

Baker, Thomas Memorials of a dissenting chapel, its foundations and worthies; being

a sketch of the rise of Nonconformity in Manchester and of thee erection of the

chapel in Cross Street, with notices of its ministers and trustees (London and

Manchester, 1884)

Burney, Lester Cross Street Chapel Schools, Manchester 1834-1942

Burney, Lester Cross Street Chapel Manchester and its college (Manchester,

Published by the author, 1983)




McLachlan, Herbert ‘Cross Street Chapel in the life of Manchester’ Proceedings of

the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 1939-40 [reprinted in Herbert

McLachlan Essays and Addresses, (Manchester University Press, 1950) pp. 94-111]

Gordon, Alexander What Manchester owed to Cross Street Chapel (1922)

[Johnson, H. H.] Cross Street Chapel , Manchester . . . 1672-1922 (1922)

Kenworthy, Fred Cross Street Chapel in the life of Manchester (n.d.)



pp. 81-107

Rack, Henry 'The rise of evangelical independency in Manchester' J. United

Reformed Church History Society 6:10 (July 2002) 724-742 [references to Cross Steet

Chapel]

Ramsden, Geoffrey M. ‘Another responsible society: the life and times of the

congregation pf Cross Street, Manchester (Unitarian)’ (unpublished typescript in

black folder at Cross Street Chapel, n.d. but after 1986)

Wade, R. The rise of Nonconformity in Manchester with a brief sketch of the history

of Cross Street Chapel (Manchester,1880) pp.70

Bicentenary Record (1894) pp.68+23

Manchester, Blackley

Founded 1689, built 1697, 1884-1966

archive material


PRO (Lancashire23, C and B 1756-1837);

Unitarian College Collection (UCC/4/3).

printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Blackley]’ TUHS

4:2 (1928) 156-167



pp. 27-37

Manchester, Chorlton cum Hardy

Founded 1890, built Wilbraham Rd 1900

archive material

Church;

Unitarian College Collection (UCC/4/5).

printed sources

Manchester, Eccles

Founded 1662, built 1698, 1802, Monton Church 1875

archive material

Salford Archives Centre(N/UNI);

Lancashire RO;

PRO (Lancashire69, C 1786-1837, B 1801-37) .

printed sources

Monton Church stained glass windows (photocopy of typescript, n.d.)

Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, Monton Chapel, Monton Church, 1697-1947

(n.d.)

Axon, Ernest ‘Some early Monton ministers’ Transactions of the Lancashire and

Cheshire Antiquarian Society 39 (????) [reprinted as a pamphlet, 1923]

Bleackley, J. R. Short history of Monton Church (1697-1969) (1969)




McAlpine, Ian The origins of Monton Chapel 1662-1715 (Monton Unitarian Church,

1985)

McAlpine, Ian The second Monton Chapel 1715-1802 (Monton Unitarian Church,

1986)



pp. 1-10

Poynting, T. E. History of Monton Chapel, and of nonconformity as connected with it

(n.d.)

Manchester, Failsworth

Founded 1688, built Dob Lane 1698, 1879

archive material

Church;


printed sources




Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Dukinfield, Elland,

Enfield, Evesham, Exeter, Failsworth, Framlingham, Frenchay, Fulwood] ’ TUHS 6:3

(1937) 246-261

Gordon, Alexander Historical account of Dob Lane Chapel, Failsworth and its schools

(Manchester, H. Rawson and Co, 1904)



pp. 38-50

Manchester, Gorton

Founded 1694, built 1703, Brookfield Church 1871

archive material

Church;

Manchester Archives (M74) [Closed burial grounds];

Greater Manchester County Record Office (D163/1/62) [for Peacock Mausoleum].

printed sources

Cottier, Fred The story of Gorton Chapel and Brookfield Church 1703-1871-1953

(n.d.)






pp. 50-62

Manchester, Greengate

printed sources



Manchester, Longsight

Founded 1866, built Birch Lane, 1883-1950

archive material

Manchester District Association records.

printed sources




Heys, John ‘Longsight Free Christian Church, Manchester’ TUHS 7:2 (1940) 163-178

Manchester, Memorial Hall

Albert Square, erected 1862 to commemorate the bicentenary of the Great Ejection.

Hall sold, but the Trust continues.

archive material

With the Trustees

printed sources

Beard, John Relly A memorial to the Memorial hall, Albert square, Manchester, in its

union with the Unitarian home-missionary board (Whitfield, Green and Son, 1866)

Rawson, H Historical sketch of the Memorial Hall, Manchester, from its projection in

December, 1861, to February, 1899 (1899)

Manchester, Moss Side

Founded 1887, built Shrewsbury St 1892, 1901-47

archive material

Unitarian College Collection.

printed sources




Manchester, Oldham Road


archive material

printed sources




Manchester, Hulme

Founded 1859, built Domestic Mission Renshaw St 1868-1976

archive material

Records held by solicitor (Tatham, Worthington of Manchester).

printed sources



Perry, Herbert E. A century of liberal religion and ohilanthropy in Manchester being a

history of the Manchester Domestic Mission Society, 1833-1933 (Manchester, H.

Rawson & Co, Ltd, 1933

Steers, David 'The origin and development of the Domestic Mission movement in

Liverpool and Manchester' TUHS 21:2 (1996) 79-103

Manchester, Rusholme

Founded 1672, built Platt Chapel 1700, 1791-1973

archive material

Manchester CL Archives Dept.

printed sources

Booker, J. A history of the ancient chapel of Birch, in Manchester parish (1859)

[Cheetham Society 47]






pp. 147-58

Swindells, E. ‘The old register and account books of Platt Chapel [Manchester]’ TUHS

8:4 (1946) 158-162

Swindells, E. Platt Chapel, Rusholme, 1700-1950 (1949)

Manchester, Strangeways

Founded and built Greengate Bridge St 1838, Broughton 1903-13

archive material

Manchester CL Archives Dept;

Unitarian College Collection 142.

printed sources




Grundy, C. S. Reminiscences of Strangeways Unitarian Free Church, June 1838 to June

1888 (1888) pp.87

Manchester, Moseley St/ Upper Brook St

Founded and built Moseley St 1789, Upper Brook St 1839-1921

archive material

Manchester CL Archives Dept (M30/1-5);

PRO (Lancashire132, C 1789-1857, B 1840-55).

printed sources


(Manchester, 1896) p.128-129


Wach, Howard M. '"A still small voice" from the pulpit: religion and the creation of

social morality in Manchester, 1830-50' Journal of Modern History 63 (1991) 425-

456 [about John James Tayler]


Manchester, Urmston

Founded 1894, built Queens Rd 1900

archive material

Church.

printed sources

Bazaar Book (1906) pp.3+5 [UHS15]

Manchester, Whitefield

Founded 1672, built Stand Chapel 1693, 1819, 1955

archive material

Church;

Manchester CL Archives Dept (L31);

PRO (Lancashire 173, C 1765-1837, B1823-37);


printed sources


(Manchester, 1896) p.170-172


Herford, Catharine T. Sunday’s Child (Privately printed, 1979)

Herford, R. Travers Memorials of Stand Chapel (Prestwich, 1893)



128-130

McLachlan, Herbert Stand Chapel 1693-1943: an address delivered at Stand Chapel

on the evening of Sunday July 25th 1943 (1943) [reprinted in Essays and Addresses,

(Manchester University Press, 1950)]



pp. 215-226

Thackray, Edgar Stand Chapel and School 1672-1922 (Whitefield, 1922)

Manchester, Willert Street

Domestic Mission, became a secular community centre and Unitarian connection

was lost, closed 1960

archive material

printed sources



Manchester, Wythenshawe

Founded 1935, built Brownlow Rd 1936, 1959-76

archive material

Manchester Unitarian District Association records.

printed sources

Mansfield

Founded 1666, built OM Stockwell Gate 1701

archive material

Church;

Nottingham Univ Dept of MSS(01);

PRO (Nottinghamshire 14, C1738-1835).

printed sources



49


White, J. Harrop The story of the Old Meeting House, Mansfield (1959)

Marshfield

Founded

archive material

Bath RO see Bath Trim St Chapel records.

printed sources





Mexborough

Founded 1912, built College Rd 1913

archive material

Church;

Sheffield CL (UCR 68/46).

printed sources

Middlesborough

archive material

Cleveland RO.

printed sources


Lamballe L. J. ‘The Unitarian Church in Middlesborough, the early years 1833-1873’

Bulletin of the Cleveland Local History Society 38 (1980) 24-29

Middleton

Founded 1860; Old Road built 1893-1961 [architect was Edgar Wood]

archive material

see Manchester Unitarian District Association records.

printed sources




Milton, see Bloxham and Milton

Monton, see Manchester Eccles

Moreton Hampstead, Cross Street Chapel

Founded 1662, built Cross St Chapel 1692, 1802

archive material


RO (Devon 67, C 1672-1836).

printed sources




Moreton Hampstead, GB

GB Founded 1690, built Fore St 1786-1818, united with the Cross Street Chapel

archive material

see Cross St Chapel Records.

printed sources




Mossley

Founded 1841, built Stamford Rd 1852-, 9a Arundel St

archive material

Church;

Tameside Local Studies L (NU1/26, 59).

printed sources





Mottram-in-Longdendale

Founded 1841, built Hyde Rd 1846-1993

archive material

Tameside Archives (NU5).

printed sources




Petts, Geoffrey W. The origin and rise of Hyde Road Christian Church Mottram-in-

Longdendale (Ashton-under-Lyme, The Tudor Press, 1954)

Smith, H. B. [Newspaper Cutting] (1910) [UHS15]

Mountsorrel

Founded and built about 1700-1846

archive material

Leicestershire RO(N/U/207/93.4);

PRO(Leicestershire 27, C 1791-1836, B1791-1838).

printed sources

Burgess, W. H. History of the Loughborough Unitarian Congregation . . . with some

account of the old Mountsorrel Meeting House (1908)

Nantwich

Founded 1672, built Hospital St 1686, 1726-1963

archive material

Cheshire RO (EUC 7/1-10);

Tameside Local Studies L(NU1/24, 63-4);

PRO(Cheshire 51, C 1783-94, 1811-35, B1821-35).

printed sources




Nantwich

Founded after 1813 Unitarian Baptist Barker St, joined Baptist New Connexion 1862

archive material

PRO (Cheshire 52, C 1813-37).

printed sources

Nelson

Founded 1904, built Eleanor St 1912-31

archive material

Bolton CL (NUL10).

printed sources



103-4

Newark

Founded 1862, built 1863, Kings Rd 1884-1950

archive material

see Nottingham High Pavement Chapel records.

printed sources


Newbury

Founded 1662, built Waterside or Upper Chapel Toomers Ct, Northbrook St 1697-

1946

archive material

Dr Williams's Library (38.66; 38.89-94);

PRO (Berkshire 15, C 1763-1834, B 1763-1837);

Presbyterian Chapel [Appeal] (n.d.)

[James, M. ] History of the Newbury Presbyterian Dissenters (DWL MS.38.66) [printed

in part in Christian Reformer 18 (1832) 274-7; 313-17; 362-9]

Stillman, T. H. Notes and materials for ‘A further history of the Presbyterian Chapel

[Newbury]’ Draft ms with other papers (DWL MS. 38.94)

Other papers relating to Newbury (DWL MS. 38.89-93)

James, Manasseh [Mss history ] vol 1 1664-1852 [UHS15] [In 1915 in posession of

Mr. T. H. Stillman, Newbury]

Stillman, T. H. [Mss history ] vol 2 1852-1900 [UHS15] [In 1915 in posession of Mr. T.

H. Stillman, Newbury]

printed sources


Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Hanover Square/Church of the Divine Unity

Founded 1662,built Close Gate 1685 Hanover Sq 1727, Church of Divine Unity, New

Bridge St 1854, Ellison Fl 1940

archive material

Northumberland RO (ZAN M18/19);


Tyne and Wear ArchiveServices (1789);

Sheffield CL (UCR 257/3);

PRO (Northumberland29, C 1752-1837).

printed sources

Church of the Divine Unity: its record and its history (1938)


Hall, Alfred Church of the Divine Unity, Newcastle-upon-Tyhe: two hundred and fifty

years, 1672-1922 (1922)

Knott, Joan ‘The vestry library of the Hanover Square Unitarian Chapel, Newcastle

upon Tyne’ Library History 1:5 (Spring 1969)

Knott, Joan A history of the libraries of Newcastle upon Tyne to 1900 (University of

Newcastle Upon Tyne unpublished thesis, 1975)

Nicholson, Helen M. ‘A Unitarian vestry library [Hanover Square, Newcastle upon

Tyne]’ TUHS 18:4 (1986) 225-226

Turner, William A short sketch of the history of Protestant Nonconformity and of the

society assembling in Hanover-Square, Newcastle (1811)

Welford, R. The church and congregation of the Divine Unity, Newcastle-upon-Tyne:

their origin and development: a lecture (1904)

Church of the Divine Unity, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: souvenir of the opening and

dedication services January 20th and 21st 1940 (Gateshead on Tyne,

Northumberland Press, 1940)

Christian Reformer 9 (????) 339-42, 10 (????) 297-309

Record of events; ministers of the congregation since its formation; building

accounts; code of rules, etc. (1861)

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Unitarian Baptist

Pandon Bank Unitarian Baptist Fl 1779-1836

archive material

Newcastle Public Library;

Newcastle Divine Unity Church Records.

printed sources

Newcastle-under-Lyme


archive material

Church;

Tameside Local Studies L (NU1/36/3q).

printed sources


Pegler, George ‘The Meeting House at Newcastle-under-Lyne’ TUHS 5:4 (1934)

393-410

Pegler, George A history of the Old Meeting House, Newcastle-under-Lyme (Hanley,

Staffordshire Sentinel, n.d.)



‘Extract from minute book, Unitarian Chapel, Newcastle-under-Lime, Staffs’ TUHS

6:1 (1935) 68-72

Newchurch

Founded 1806, built 1809, Bethlehem U Chapel 1865

archive material

Church;


printed sources

Ashworth, John Ten letters giving an account of the rise and progress of the

Unitarian doctrine at Rochdale, Newchurch-in-Rossendale, and other places formerly

in connection with the late Joseph Cooke (1817)




Gray, Kathleen 'Some contributions to the early history of nonconformity in

Rossendale' (MA thesis , Wales, Aberystwyth, 1942)



1055-108

McLachlan, Herbert The Methodist Unitarian movement (Manchester, 1919)

Shaw, J. J. [no title] (1906) pp.29 [UHS15]

New Mill

Lydgate


archive material

Unitarian College Collection (Cl11);

PRO (Yorkshire 213, C1743-1840);

Yorkshire Unitarian Union records;

Wakefield Libraries and Information Services c.1674-1920: records of Lydgate chapel,

near Holmfirth, with other churches.

printed sources


[Green, J. H.] Memorabilia in the history of Lydgate Chapel (1945)

Morehouse, H. J. A brief history of the English Presbyterian chapel and congregation

at Lydgate in the parish of Kirkburton in the county of York (1861) [copy in Aspland

Papers 22 at HMCO]

Short, E. Basil ‘Lydgate Chapel [West Yorkshire]: the date of the building’ TUHS 10:4

(1954) 181-184

Newport IOW

GB Founded 1726, built Pyle St 1728, High St 1774

archive material

Isle of Wight RO (NC/U);


PRO (Hampshire 30, C 1739-1837).

printed sources


Maguire, Leonard J. trs Newport IOW: The Protestant Dissenting Meeting House PRO

births register 1739-1837 (1982)

Northampton

Founded 1827, built King St 1828, Kettering Rd 1897

archive material

Northampton RO;


PRO(Northamptonshire 33, C 1820-37).

printed sources


Ruston, Alan ‘Unitarianism in Northampton - Rev. John Horsey to Sir Philip

Mansfield’ TUHS 19:4 (1990) 238-251

Northampton Daily Reporter (8 & 11 October 1897)

Northiam

GB Founded 1796, built Herman Hill 1810

archive material

East Sussex RO (NU4/ 1-6).

printed sources

Packer, Brian A. Planted by Vidler: Northiam Unitarian Chapel: a History (Tenterden,

1988)

North Shields

Founded 18th century, Low Meeting -1846

archive material

PRO (Northumberland 40, C1756-1812);

Unitarian College Collection (A12, UCC/4/8/1),

Tyne and Wear Archive Services (1787).

printed sources

Northwich

Founded nineteenth century.

archive material

Tameside Local Studies L (NU1/22).

printed sources

Norton


archive material

PRO (Derbyshire 51, C 1777-1836).

printed sources


Street, C. J. ‘The old nonconformity at Norton, Derbyshire 1’ TUHS 1:1 (1916) 25-

54; 1:2 (1917) 129-154

Norwich

Founded 1662, built St George's Colegate 1689, Octagon Chapel 1756

archive material

Norfolk and Norwich RO FC B);

Dr Williams's Library (95.34-5 Odgers);

PRO(Norfolk 48, C 1691-1836, B 1793-1834).

printed sources

A short history of the Octagon Unitarian Chapel Norwich (April 1997)

Eddy, G. T. Dr Taylor of Norwich: Wesley's arch-heretic (Epworth Press 2003)


Taylor, John and Taylor, Edward History of the Octagon Chapel, Norwich (London,

1848)

Nottingham, Christ Church

Founded 1860, built Christ Church Peas Hill 1864-1930

archive material

Nottingham Univ Dept of MSS(Hi Z 1-16).

printed sources


Nottingham, High Pavement

Founded 1662, built High Pavement 1691, 1805, 1876

archive material

RO, Nottingham Univ Dept ofMSS (Hi and Hi 2);


PRO(Nottinghamshire 24, 1690-1836);

National Library of Wales (Simon Jones Bequest);

Nottinghamshire Family History Society Records Series vols. 53 and 74 contain

indexes to family history records .

printed sources



50-55

Carpenter, Benjamin Some account of the original introduction of Presbyterianism

in Nottingham and the neighbourhood with a brief history of the Society of

Protestant Dissenters assembling on the High Pavement in that town (London, E. T.

Whitfield, n.d.)

Cooper, Eric J. S. [index to births, marriages and deaths in High Pavement Chapel

Chronicle 1872-1921] (Nottinghamshire Family History Society, Record Series 74

(????)


Taylor, June ‘The Ladies Committee of the Women’s Hospital, Castlegate,

Nottingham, 1880-1900’ Intentional History of Nursing Journal 2:4 (summer 1997 &

38-47) [“the overwhelming impression is that the hospital was closely connected

with active members of the Unitarian High Pavement Chapel” p.43]

Warren, John C. ‘Early records of a Presbyterian congregation [High Pavement,

Nottingham]’ TUHS 1:1 (1916) 55-87

A biographical catalogue of portraits and a list of books, documents and relics

relating to our congregational history in the custody of the chapel trustees (n.d.)

Some notes on the memorials and other objects of interest and beauty in the High

Pavement Chapel, Nottingham (n.d.)

‘Register of High Pavement Chapel 1690/1-1723’ Miscellany 1 (Nottinghamshire

Family History Society, Record Series 53 (1986)

Nottingham, Hyson Green

Domestic Mission Founded and built 22 Bentinck Rd 1883-1901

archive material

Nottingham Univ Dept of MSS (Hi H 1-9).

printed sources

Oldbury

Founded 1662, built 1708, Unity Pl 1806-1980;

archive material

Unitarian College Collection (Cl 11-12);

PRO(Shropshire 25, C 1715-45, 1759-1813);

Evans, George Eyre Vestiges of Protestant Dissent (Liverpool, 1897) pp.193-4.

printed sources






Oldham

Founded 1813, built Lord St 1816, 1877, King St 1971

archive material

Church;

Oldham Archives Centre (Misc 59).

printed sources







Marcroft, A. Historical account of the Unitarian Chapel, Oldham with an

investigation of early nonconformity, and a survey of the general liberal religious

movement in Oldham (Oldham, 1913)


'Unitarian Chapel, Lord Street. Centennial celebration, November . . . 1913' Oldham

Chronicle (1913)



Ormskirk

Founded 1662, built Chapel St 1696, Aughton St 1783-1886

archive material


printed sources






pp. 180-98

Oxford see also EDUCATION: MANCHESTER COLLEGE

Society of Worshippers Manchester College Founded 1957

archive material

Church.

printed sources


Padiham

Founded 1806, built 1823, Knight Hill 1874

archive material

Church;

Lancashire RO (DDX 462.80-85).

PRO (Lancashire 168, C 1823-37, B1830-37).

printed sources






Evans, George Eyre Vestiges of Protestant Dissent



109-111

Jenkins, J. E. History of Unitarianism in Padiham 1806-1906 (Accrington, 1906)

pp.102 [UHS15]


Street, C. J. [no title] (1881) pp.15 [UHS15]

Palgrave see Diss

Park Lane see Ashton-in-Makerfield

Plymouth

Founded 1662, built Treville St; Norley St 1823, Notte St 1958

archive material

Church;

Plymouth Corporation hold deeds of Treville St;

PRO ( Devon 77, C 1672-1771, 1704-85, 1785-1835);

Other records destroyed in blitz.

printed sources


Harris, A. S. Ms (1896) [UHS15]

‘High Street Chapel, Plymouth’ TUHS 1:3 (1918) 275

‘List of trustees of Plymouth Meeting House 1768’ TUHS 2:4 (1922) 186-188



Odgers, W. J. A brief history of the Plymouth Unitarian congregation (1850)

Plymouth Central Library Three hundred years: the tercentenary of Nonconformity in

Plymouth. An exhibition at the central Library ... 7-19 May 1962 (1962)

Welch, C. E. ‘Dissenters’ meeting houses in Plymouth to 1852’ Transactions of the

Devonshire Association 14 (1962) 579-612

Poole

Founded 1690, built 1705, Hill St 1868-1968

archive material

Dorset RO (N3/1-24);

PRO (Dorset 21, .C 1760-1837, B 1766-1836).

printed sources




Short, Bernard C. Early days of nonconformity in Poole (Poole, The Wessex Press,

1927)

Portsmouth GB

GB Founded 1640, built St Thomas St 1693, 1715, 1865-1946, united with High

Street.

archive material

Portsmouth RO (257A/1/12);

Unitarian College Collection (Cl11);

PRO (Hampshire 44, C and B 1789-1837).

printed sources


[Montgomery, R. M.] ‘Trust deed of Portsmouth General Baptist Chapel’ TUHS 3:1

(1923) 53-59

Maguire, Leonard J. trs. Portsmouth: The General Baptist Church: a transcription of

the PRO births and burials register 1785-1836 (1984)

Maguire, Leonard J. trs. Portsmouth: The General Baptist Church: the charity of John

Brent for the minister and others: abstracts from the 1792 trust deed (1988)

Portsmouth, High Street

Founded 1662, built Penny St 1691, High St 1718, John Pounds Memorial Church

1956

archive material

Portsmouth RO (257A);

PRO (Hampshire 42,C 1676-1857, B 1787-1853).

printed sources


[Thompson, G. W. ] Unitarian Church. Bi-Centenary (1718-1918) of High Street

Chapel, Portsmouth.(1918) [With notes on the history]

Unitarians in Portsmouth, essays to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the rebuilding

of the John Pounds Memorial Church (Portsmouth Grammar School Monograph

series, No 18, 1997)

Portsmouth

John Pounds Domestic Mission (nineteenth century)

archive material

Portsmouth RO (257A/1/11/4).

printed sources

Prescot

Founded and built Atherton St 1757-c.1879

archive material

PRO (Lancashire 175, C 1776-1837,1786-1836).

printed sources






pp. 150-56

Preston


archive material

Church;

Lancashire RO (U Pr);

Shrewsbury PL (Astley papers 1067);

PRO(Lancashire 179, C 1763-1817, 1763-1836, B 1783-1836).

printed sources


(Manchester, 1896)

pp. 153-155




114-116



pp. 9-21

Pudsey

Founded 1853, built Church Lane 1861, Closed 2011

archive material

Formerly at the Church, where now?

Leeds Mill Hill Chapel records (86b).

printed sources


Gaunt, J. A. [no title] (1911) pp.47 [UHS15]

Ramsgate

Birchington GB Founded 1762, closed 1884

archive material

Dr Williams's Library see Kent and Sussex U Christian Association records.

printed sources

Rawtenstall

Founded and built 1757, Bank St 1853, 1971, closed 2003

archive material

Church.

printed sources




Clarke, G. L. Two hundred years: the story of a congregation [Rawtenstall], 1757-

1957 (?1957)


(Manchester, 1896)

pp. 156-157




117-119


Reading

Founded 1876, built London Rd 1877-1973

archive material

printed sources


Ringwood

Founded 1672, built St Thomas Cha MH Lane 1727-1975;

archive material

PRO (Hampshire 47, C1748-1837, B 1815-37).

printed sources


Odgers, J. Collins and Hall, H. A Hampshire bicentenary: St. Thomas’ Chapel,

Ringwood its early days (reprinted from the Western Gazette, 1927)

Risley

Became orthodox, Unitarians continued at Croft.

archive material

printed sources

Sellers, Ian ‘The Risley case’ TUHS 16:4 (1978) 176-187



pp. 252-61

Rivington


archive material

Church;

Bolton Archives (register); registers and Mss transcribed and printed by Holding and

Rogers, 1988;

see Bolton Bank St Chapel records.

printed sources






120-125

Holding, Joan and Rogers, Colin D. The Nonconformist Chapel in Rivington, Lancs and

its early registers (1988)

Kenworthy, Fred ‘Rivington Chapel’ TUHS 12:2 (1960) 85-86



pp. 81-98

Thompson, S. [no title] (1903) pp.56

Rochdale, Blackwater Street

Founded 1662, built Lower Gates 1672, Blackwater St 1717, 1857 Clover St 1974;

(Founded and built Providence Chapel 1818 combined with Clover St 1890)

archive material

Church;


PRO (Lancashire 193, C1785-1837, B 1802-37);

Shropshire Archives (Astley papers) Bolton CL (NUL 11/1).

printed sources






126-127



pp. 240-244

Nightingale, B. 'Robert Bath, founder of Rochdale Nonconformity' Rochdale

Observer (February, 1906)

Spedding, T. P. [no title] (1893) pp.76 [UHS15]

Rochdale, Clover Street

Clover Street

archive material

printed sources





(Manchester, 1896)

pp. 165



Rolvenden

GB Founded seventeenth century 1800-90

archive material



PRO (Kent separate MS ofBirths); CRO;

see also Kent and Sussex Unitarian Christian Association records.

printed sources

Rotherham

Founded 1662. built 1706, Church of Our Father, Moorgate St 1880-1986

archive material

PRO(Yorkshire 314, C 1748-1836, B 1819-25);

Sheffield CL (LD 1162-1164);

Rotherham CL Archives(204/N);

UC (281/3);

W Blazeby, Rotherham OMH (1906), includes a transcription of the registers 1748-

1837.

printed sources

Blazeby, W. Rotherham: the Old Meeting Houyse and its ministers (1906) pp.261


Royston

archive material

printed sources


Ruston, Alan R. Unitarianism in Hertforshire (1979) pp.23-24

Rushall

GB Founded and built 1706-1972

archive material

Dr Williams's Library (OB329/1);

Wiltshire RO (1332/1-29).

printed sources

Worsdell, George Henry A history of Rushall General Baptist Church (London,

General Baptist Assembly, 1986)

Ryde

Founded about 1876-1900

archive material

Portsmouth RO (257/A/1/6/1).

printed sources

Saffron Walden

(now Baptist Union)

GB Founded 1711, built Hill St 1792, joined Baptist Union 1915

archive material

PRO (Essex 56, C 1790-1824, 1826-37, B 1791-1820)

printed sources

Brinkworth, J. A. [no title] (1907-9) pp.4+4 [UHS15]

Christian Life 3 (1878) 449


St. Albans

Founded 1662, built Lower Dagnall St 1697-1893

archive material

Hertfordshire RO (D/EOY T11);


PRO (Hertfordshire 29, C 1751-1836).

printed sources


Ruston, Alan R. Old Presbyterian Meeting House St. Albans: the story of a building

(Oxhey, 1979)

St. Helens

Founded 1901, built Corporation St 1904, 1950, closed 1998

archive material

Formerly at the Church, where now?

printed sources

Sale

Founded 1699, built 1715, Cross St 1739, Atkinson Rd 1876-1970

archive material

Manchester CL Archives Dept (M210).

printed sources




Pipkin, J. Cross Street Chapel, Cheshire (with notes on Crossford Bridge and Toll-Bar)

Salford, Green Gate

Founded and built 1825 Green Gate – mid-nineteenth century

archive material

PRO (Lancashire 210,. C 1825-36, B 1827-37)

printed sources

Salford, Pendleton

Founded 1861, built Cross Lane 1874, 1976-1992.

archive material

Salford City Archive Centre

printed sources




[no author, not title] (1909) pp.11 [UHS15]

Salford Bible Christian

Lienham, Peter J. ‘Restoring man’s creative power: the theosophy of the Bible

Christians of Salford’ in W. J. Shields The church and healing (1989) pp.207-223

[Studies in Church History 19]

Sandon

printed sources

Ruston, Alan R. Unitarianism in Hertforshire (1979) pp.25-6

Scarborough

Founded 1873, built Westborough Rd 1877

archive material

Church;

Leeds Mill Hill Chapel Records (86);

Sheffield CL (Unitarian College Collection R 197/4).

printed sources

Dolphin, A. H. Westborough Unitarian Church, Scarborough: some points in the

history of our congregation (n.d.)


Selby

Founded 1672, built St Michael's Chapel, Millgate 1699, 1903-68

archive material

Wakefield MD Archives;

PRO (Yorkshire 330, C1797-1836);

Yorkshire Unitarian Union records;

Ms 81 (1864) [UHS15].

printed sources


Sevenoaks

Founded 1650, built OM Bessels Green 1716

archive material

Church;

Sevenoaks CL;

PRO (Kent 77, C 1650, B 1823-37).

printed sources

Crosskey, Sheila The Old Meeting House Bessel's Green, the Congregational Minute

Book 1947-1985: a synopsis (Biggin Hill, Kent) 2003


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Bessell’s Green]’

TUHS 4:2 (1928) 156-167

Harman, N. Bishop ‘The Old Meeting House, Bessels Green 1’ TUHS 6:2 -3 (1936-7)

103-115, 213-21 [also published as a pamphlet]

Hooper, T. R. 'A pilgrimage to Bessell's Green' Baptist Quarterly 3 (????) 228-36

Montgomery, R. M. [and Burgess, W. H.] ‘An early licence [Bessels Green]’ TUHS 3:2

(1924) 153-4

Whitley, W. T. 'Bessels Green, 1667' Baptist Quarterly 9 (????) 123

Sheffield, Upper Chapel

Founded 1660, built 1678, 1700, Upper Chapel Norfolk St 1848

archive material

Church;

Sheffield CL (HD 29;LD 1162-64);

PRO (Yorkshire 342, C1681-1837, B 1812-36).

printed sources


Manning, J. E. A history of Upper Chapel, Sheffield (Sheffield, The Independent Press,

1900)

Mountain, Nora Upper Chapel and the infant city of Sheffield 1893-1900 (Sheffield,

Upper Chapel, 1993)

Street, C. J. [no title] (1910) pp.84 [UHS15]

Sheffield, Attercliffe

Founded 1901, built Shirland Lane 1906-71

archive material

Sheffield CL (UCR).

printed sources


Sheffield, Fulwood

Founded 1714, built Old Chapel, Whiteley Lane 1728

archive material

Church;

Sheffield CL (M.D. 1400-1416 UCR 79/4-28; L.C.64; LD1162-1164);

PRO (Yorkshire 336, C1820-37).

printed sources


Evans, George Eyre ‘Our communion plate and other treasures [Dukinfield, Elland,

Enfield, Evesham, Exeter, Failsworth, Framlingham, Frenchay, Fulwood]’ TUHS 6:3

(1937) 246-261

McLachlan, H. John ‘The old nonconformity in Fulwood [Sheffield] I William Ronksley

and Fulwood Old Chapel’ TUHS 6:3 (1937) 194-204

McLachlan, H. John ‘The old nonconformity at Fulwood II Fulwood Old Chapel and

its ministers’ TUHS 6:4 (1938) 330-353

A short history of Fulwood Old Chapel [Broadstairs, Westwood Press, n.d. but after

1964]

Sheffield, Stannington

Founded and built Underbank Chapel 1652, 1742

archive material

Church;

Sheffield CL (RC230/1-9 LC 164);

Wakefield MD Archives (re.Lower Bradfield School);

PRO (Yorkshire368, C 1718-77).

printed sources

A short account of its earlier history (1987) [drawn from Frederick Wood’s history]

Blazeby, W. [no title] (1905) pp.14 [UHS15]


Evans, George Eyre 'Stannington: Underbank Chapel, 1718-1857 Notes and Queries

73 'TUHS 3:2 (1924) 161-65

Wood, Frederick T. A history of Underbank Chapel Stannington (Sheffield, 1944)

Sheffield, Crookesmoor

Founded 1859, built Upperthorpe 1861, Unity Crookesmoor Rd 1915-88

archive material

Sheffield CL (UCR).

printed sources

[Ellis, J. ] Upperthorpe Chapel (1893)


Steers, David ‘ “The bare-headed minister” – the radical career of James Vint

Laughland’ TUHS 20:2 (1992) 114-125

Unity Church (Unitarian) 1859-1959 Centenary Celebrations

Shelf

Pepper Hill


archive material

Church;


printed sources

Shepton Mallett

Founded 1672, built Cowl St 1696-1961

archive material

Bristol, Lewin's Mead records ;

Somerset RO;

PRO(Somerset 66, C 1757-1837, B 1802-37).

printed sources




Shrewsbury

Founded 1662, built High St 1691

archive material

Shrewsbury PL (Astley papers);


National Library of Wales(Add MS 401A, MS 603 Francis Tallents);

PRO (Shropshire 35, C 1692-1837).

printed sources

Astley, R. 'History pf the Presbyterian Meeting-House, Shrewsbury' Christian

Reformer (May/June 1847)

Broadbent, Arnold The story of Unitarianism in Shrewsbury (Shrewsbury, 1962)




‘High Street Unitarian Church, Shrewsbury’ [reproduced from The Shrpshire

Magazine]

Reavely, J. Presbyterianism in Shrewsbury and districet, 1647-1925 (1925)



Sidmouth

Founded and built Higher or OM Upper High St 1710

archive material

Church;

PRO (Devon 87, C 1753-1836).

printed sources




Smarden

GB Bell Meeting founded and built about 1741-1845; Graveyard survives

archive material

Dr Williams's Library MSS 38-117 (Church Book 1640-1845).

printed sources

Southend-on-Sea

Founded 1897, built Darnley Rd 1898, UMH Grange Gds 1977

archive material

Church;

Essex RO, Southend(D/NZ. 13).

printed sources

Southampton

Founded 1847, built as Church of the Saviour, London Rd 1860, 1956

archive material

Church;

Southampton RO (D/LY/24/1-10) Edmund Kell papers;

Unitarian College Collection (Cl11).

printed sources

The Unitarian Church, Southampton and it’s founder [Edmund Kell] [2 one sided

dupliated pages headed chapter 1 and chapter 2 - there must be more]

[Dunkin, Joanna] Memorials of the Rev. Edmund Kell . . . and Mrs. Kell, of

Southampton (1875)


South Petheron, Somerset

Presbyterian, may have developed towards Unitarianism. Disbanded 1842, building

survived until 1880 [Stell]

Southport

Founded 1862, built Portland St 1867-

archive material

Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector

Development.

printed sources


(Manchester, 1896) pp. 168


Glasgow, Eric The Unitarian contribution in Victorian Southport (Eric Glasgow, 1975)

[typescript]

South Shields


archive material

Tyne and Wear Archives (C.SS41, C.NC66/184, C.NC66/187/1-2);


printed sources


Speldhurst see Tunbridge Wells

Stainforth

Founded 1816 Fl 1865

archive material

PRO (Yorkshire 364, C 1818-35).

printed sources

Stainton



of the nonconformist academies of Richard Frankland, M. A.., and Caleb Rotheram,

D. D. (Kendal, Titus Wilson, 1915) pp.438-446



pp. 291-5

Stalybridge

Founded 1865. built Canal St 1870

archive material

Church.

printed sources

Bredbury, Jack The foundation of the Stalybridge Unitarian Church and Sunday

School and the connection of their oigins with the Leech family (2001)




[Ratcliffe, J. A. ] Stalybridge Unitarian Sunday School. ‘The growing of the seed’. The

story of Unitarianism in Stalybridge, 1862-1962 (1962)

Stamford

Founded 1756, date of closure unknown.

archive material

Dr Williams's Library (95.41-2 Odgers).

Stand, see Manchester Whitefield

Stannington, see Sheffield Stannington

Stockport

Founded 1681, built 1702, High St 1722, St Petersgate 1842, Cheadle 1973-2009

archive material

Stockport PL;

PRO (Cheshire 71, C 1761-1837, B1780-1835);

Tameside Local Studies L(NU11/60);


printed sources

Axon, Ernest ‘Stockporrt: St. Peter’s Gate Chapel. J. L. Syddall’ TUHS 3:4 (1926) 408-

9


(Manchester, 1896) p.173-175

Evans, George Eyre V estiges of Protestant Dissent (Liverpool, 1897) pp.231-3

Evans, George Eyre ‘Stockport, St. Peter’s Gate Chapel’ TUHS 3:3

(1925) 272-6

Perry, Herbert ‘Historical notes on the Stockport Unitarian church’ TUHS 3:2 (1924)

148-152



Stockton-on-Tees

Founded 1688. built OM High St 1699, Wellington St 1873, 2007

archive material

Church;

Northumberland RO(ZAN M 17/16);

PRO (Durham 46, C1688-1836, Ma 1688-1720).

printed sources


Hawkins, F. H. History of the Presbytery of Durham (South Shields, ?1972) pp.142-3

[for early history]

[Richmond, T. ] A brief history of Protestant Nonconformity and of the society

assembling in the Old Meeting-House, High Street, Stockton (1856)

Ruston, Alan Stockton’s first dissenters: the story of the Unitarian Church in Stockton

(Stockton, Unitarian Church, 1988)

Seed, John ‘The weakness of Unitarianism and liberal culture in early 19th century

Stockton’ Bulletin of the Cleveland and Teeside Local History Society 39 (1980) 33-40

Two hundred years: a short account of the establishment and subsequent history of

the Society of Protestant Dissenters (now called the Unitarian Church), at Stockton-

on-Tees, from the year 1688 to the present time (Stockton-on-Tees, 1888) [also a

leter reprint n.d.]

Stoney Middleton

Founded 1846, closed about 1850.

archive material

Sheffield CL

Unitarian College Collection R 61. 1-9).

printed sources

Stourbridge

Founded and built Coventry St 1698, High St 1788

archive material

Hereford and Worcester RO (b898.4; 898.4; s 898.4).

printed sources




Lee, E. Rosalind ‘Presbyterian (Unitarian) Chapel, Stourbridge 1698-1948’ TUHS 9:3

(1949) 175-176

Palfrey, H. E. ‘Early nonconformity in Stourbridge’ TUHS 6:4 (1938) 293-309

Palfrey, H. E. ‘The architecture of the old meeting houses [Stourbridge] TUHS 8:4

(1946) 181

Palfrey, H. E. History of the Presbyterian congregation, Stourbridge. Chapter 1 The

ejected ministry and Stourbridge [1936] ? all printed of a projected history

‘Presbyterian (Unitarian) Chapel, Stourbridge 1698-1948’ TUHS 9:3 (1949) 175-6

‘Preface of “Memorials of Dissenting Churches” [Stourbridge and Lye Waste]’ TUHS

6:1 (1935) 62-66

Stell, Christopher A inventory of Nonconformist chapels and meeting-houses in


Worthington, A. W. Early history of the Presbyteraian congregation, Stourbridge

(1886-88)

Worthington, A. W. Notes as to the schools connected with the Presbyterain Chapel,

Stourbridge (1888)

Stroud

Founded 1876-91 Lansdowne Rd

archive material

Somerset RO (D/n/wu).

printed sources


Styal

Founded and built 1824 Norcliffe Chapel, restored 1867

archive material

Cheshire RO (EUC 2 CH);

PRO (Cheshire 56, C 1833-36)

printed sources

A history of Norcliffe Chapel Styal 1822-1980 (n.d. but previous edition is referred to

as 1977, another edition with no date but title dates are given as 1822-1993)





Sunderland

Founded 1814, built Bridge Sq 1831-1967

Corn Market Chapel [English Presbyterian - Unitarian]

archive material

Tyne and Wear Archive Services (with Newcastle Divine Unity Church records);

PRO (Durham 49, C 1831-37).

printed sources

Hawkins, F. H. History of the Presbytery of Durham (South Shields, ?1972) pp.193-

203

Davidson, Robert Weir The origins and history of the Unitarian Free Church

Sunderland 1830-1930: a short sketch (Sunderland, 1930)


Sutton in Ashfield

Founded c.1790, built 1791-1857

White, J. Harrop The story of the Old Meeting House, Mansfield (1959) pp.54f.

Swindon


archive material

Church.

printed sources

Swinton

Founded 1820, built 1831, Swinton Hall Rd 1857-1983

archive material

Salford Archives Centre(N/UN2)

PRO (Lancashire 233, C 1763-1836,B 1792-1837).

printed sources

Crook, S. History of Unitarian cause, Swinton 1820-1921 (Manchester, H. Rawson

and Co., 1922)




Godfrey, Peter B. The Unitarian cause in Swinton 1920-1958 (Rossendale, Express

Printers (n.d.)

Tamworth

Founded 1690, built NM Colehill, now Victoria Rd, 1724

archive material

Church;

PRO (Warwickshire52, C 1695-1837, B 1822-36)

printed sources






Taunton

GB Founded 1646, built Mary St 1721

archive material

Somerset RO;

PRO (Somerset 79, C1747-1837, . B 1797-1837)

printed sources




Toulmin, J. The history of the town of Taunton (1791) pp. 29-33

Taunton

Founded and built NM Tancred St 1732-1815, united with Mary St Chapel.

archive material

Somerset RO.

printed sources

Tavistock

archive material

Devon RO (1154D);

PRO (Devon94, C 1692-1837).

printed sources


Hicks, H. R. ‘Ministers of the Abbey Chapel, Tavistock’ Devon and Cornwall Notes

and Queries 23 (1948) 2122-15, 248-51



[Stanley, G. H. revised Barron, John] Historical notes etc., relating to the

congregation assembling in the Abbey Chapel, tavistock (1902)

Tenterden

Founded 1690, built OM Ashford Rd 1746

archive material

Church;


Kent RO (A1352/3);

PRO (Kent 97, C 1736-1837, B 1812-37).

printed sources


Packer, Brian ‘Nonconformity in Tenterden: 1640-1750’ TUHS 20:2 (1992) 81-97

‘Tenterden Old Meeting House’ TUHS 16:1 (1975) 34-35

Thorne

Founded and built Canal St (Orchard St) 1816-late nineteenth century.

archive material

PRO(Yorkshire 384, C and B 1817-37) .

printed sources

Wright, Richard, A Review of the missionary life and labours of Richard Wright

written by himself (London, D. Eaton, 1824)

Thornton Cleveleys

Founded Unitarian Fellowship 1963-82

archive material

Lancashire RO(U. Th).

printed sources

Todmorden

Founded 1818, built Hanging Ditch 1824, Fielden Sq 1869-1992

Now in care of Historic Chapels Trust.

archive material

Unitarian College Collection;

West Yorkshire Archive Services Calderdale (01422392635).

printed sources





(Manchester, 1896) p.178-179


Fox, Arthur W. Annals of the Todmorden Unitarian Congregation: a centennial

sketch (Todmorden, 1924)



pp.131-5


Todmorden Unitarian Church [descriptive leaflet, 1996]

Topsham

Founded before 1687, built 1723-27, 1890

archive material

Devon RO (2861D);



PRO (Devon 102, C 1744-1837, B1771-1837);

see Cullompton Chapel records.

printed sources

Evans, George Eyre ‘Topsham: Old Meeting House’ TUHS 3:2 (1924) 166-9 [MN&Q

75]



Woodhall, R. D. ‘Topsham Unitarian Chapel: a forgotten Devon cause’ TUHS 17:3

(1981) 125-128

Torquay

Founded 1883, built Montpelier Rd 1912

archive material

Church;

Devon Heritage Trust (5638 D 8427, NRA 42243)

printed sources


Trowbridge

GB Founded 1655, built before 1714, Conigre Chapel 1857

archive material

Wiltshire and Swindon RO (1241, 1476,2215), 104 items;

Trowbridge UDC Lansdown Collection for papers re. Samuel Martin;

PRO(Wiltshire 61, C 1819-36).

printed sources

Doel, W. Twenty Golden Candlesticks or a history of Baptist nonconformity in

western Wiltshire (Trowbridge & London, 1890)




Rowland, John The story of Conigre (1975)

Tunbridge Wells

GB founded 1646-1813;

archive material

Dr Williams's Library (38.71).

Maguire, Leonard J. trs. The church book of Tunbridge Wells; a transcription of the

church book of Speldhurst and Pembury (later Tunbridge Wells) (1998 Leonard J.

Maguire for The General Baptist Assembly, 1998) [BM Add Ms 36709]

General Baptist Church. Deacon's Cash Book, 1697--1744 [DWL MSS 38.72]

printed sources

Tunley

became Presbyterian Church of England

archive material

printed sources

Partington, F. 'The orgin of the Tunley congregations' Presbyterian Historical Society

of England Journal 10 (????) 184-93

Turners Hill and Horely

GB Founded 1668-1851

archive material



printed sources

Burgess, Walter H. ‘The church book of the General Baptist Chapel at Turners Hill

and Horley’ TUHS 1:2 (1917) 191-218 DWL MS 38.84]

Hooper, T. R. A Surrey and Sussex Border Church: reminiscences of old-time Baptist

Assemblies at Turner's Hill, Horley, and District 1650 to 1840. With a short history of

the General Baptists (Stanley L. Hunt, Rushden Northamptonshire, 1925)

'Hamlets in Surrey and Sussex' Baptist Quarterly 1 (????) 81, 2 (????) 324-9

Uffcolme

Bridwell Unitarian chapel built by Richard Hall Clarke on his private estate.

archive material

printed sources

TUHS 1:2 (1917) 137

Wakefield

Founded 1662, built Westgate 1697, 1752

archive material

Church;

Wakefield Metropolitan DistrictArchives;

PRO (Yorkshire 396, C 1761-1837, B1785-1835).

printed sources

Bass, J. Mason Westgate Chapel Wakefield: a short history of the chapel and of the

congregation for which it was built (Manchester, 1952)


Wallasey

Founded 1888, built Iron Church Manor Rd 1892, Memorial Church Manor Rd 1899,

closed 1993. Now in care of Historic Chapels Trust.

archive material

Cheshire Archives and Local Studies (EUC 10).

printed sources




Walmsley, see Egerton

Walsall

Founded 1662, built 1700, High St 1715, Stafford St 1827-1980

archive material

Church;

PRO(Staffordshire 61, C 1778-1837).

printed sources




Warnock, Hugh ‘Short sketch of the origin and progress of nonconformity in Walsall’

TUHS 4:2 (1928) 108-119

Warnock, Hugh ‘Unitarian ministers of Walsall and their predecessors’ TUHS 4:3

(1929) 268-276

Walthamstow, Old Meeting

Built 1730, OM Marsh St 19th century

archive material


PRO (Essex 71, C1796-1825).

printed sources

Walthamstow, Truro Road

Founded 1895, built 1897-1940, Truro Rd

archive material


printed sources

Walton-le-Dale

(absorbed by Preston)

archive material

printed sources



pp. 20-1

Wareham

Founded 1828, built South St 1830-1976

archive material

PRO (Dorset 32, C 1789-1837).

printed sources




Warminster

Founded 1687, built OM North Row 1704-1869

archive material

Wiltshire RO;

Dr Williams's Library (95.45-6 Odgers);

PRO (Wiltshire 65, C 1762-1836).

printed sources




Warrington

Founded 1662, built 1703, Cairo St 1745

archive material

Church;

Dr Williams's Library (Odgers papers);

PRO (Lancashire 242,. C 1771-1837);

The registers and MIs have been transcribed and printed (J K Bulmer, 1980).

printed sources

Bulmer, J. R. tr. Unitarian Chapel, Cairo Street, Warrington, register and

monumental inscriptions (1980)


(Manchester, 1896) p.182-184


Mounfield, Arthur Early Warrington Nonconformity (Warrington, 1922)



pp. 214-27

Warwick

Founded 1691, built High Street 1780

archive material

Church;

Warwickshire RO (CR 860);

Unitarian College Collection (C 42);


printed sources




Hodson, J. H. 'Warwickshire Nonconformist and Quaker meeting houses, 1660-1750'

Warwickshore County Records 8 (1953) 98-99

Sadler, M and Wigmore-Beddoes, D. G. A booklet commemorative of the restoration

of High Street Unitarian Chapel Warwick 1966 (Warwickshire Publishing Company,

1966)



Sibree J. and Caston, M. Independency in Warwickshire (1855) 121-44

Victoria County History: Warwickshire VIII (1969) 536-7

Watford


archive material

Church.

printed sources

Welburn, near Castle Howard

Built 1825

archive material

North Yorkshire RO (R/1/ML2);

see Wheelgate Chapel, Malton records.

printed sources

Christian Reformer (1840), p.610

Monthly Repository (1825) 166

Wem

Founded before 1695. built 1716 Noble St?-1874

archive material

PRO (Shropshire 43, C1755-1836);

see Shrewsbury records at RO.

printed sources

Elliot, E. A history of Congregationalsim in Shropshire (1898) pp.60-6




West Bromwich

Founded 1871, built Lodge Rd 1875-1979; United Reformed Church 1979.

archive material

Smethwick Public Library

printed sources




Philip J. Spencer Lodge Road Church, Unitarian, West Bromwich 1875-1975: its

founding and history compiled from church reccords

West Kirby

Founded 1906, built 1910, Brookfield Gdns 1928

archive material

Cheshire RO (EUC 5).

printed sources

Weymouth

Founded 1892-96

archive material

Dorset RO (N. U. 3/1).

printed sources

Wharton

became orthodox

archive material

printed sources



pp. 108-117

Whitby

Founded 1694, built Old Chapel, Flowergate 1750

archive material

North Yorkshire RO;

Dr Williams's Library (38.119 3);

PRO (Yorkshire 406, C and B 1695-1832, Ma 1695-1710).

printed sources


Whitchurch, Doddington

Founded 1672, built Broad Oak 1689, Doddington 1707-1844

archive material

PRO (Shropshire 47, C 1743-1836, B 1823-36).

printed sources

Elliot, E. A history of Congregationalsim in Shropshire (1898) pp.88-90






Whitchurch, Church of the Saviour

Founded and built Church of the Saviour, Highgate 1877-1921

archive material

see Shrewsbury records at RO.

printed sources




Whitehaven

almost Unitarian, then Presbyterian

archive material

printed sources

Colligan, J. Hay ‘The Old Meeting, Whitehaven’ Journal of the Presbyterian Historical

Society of England 2:3 (1922)

Winterbourne see Frenchay

Wisbech

Founded 1784, built Dead Man's Lane?-1898

archive material


PRO (Cambridgeshire34, C and B 1784-1837).

printed sources

Wivelsfield

GB now orthodox

archive material

East Sussex Record Office

printed sources

Maguire, Leonard J. Wivelsfield [GB now orthodox]: the Church Book 1763-1817 to

which is annexed the PRO register of births and burials to 1837i (1984)

Wolverhampton

Founded 1700, built 1701, John St 1817, Snow Hill 1831, All Souls, Park Rd West 1911

archive material

Church;

PRO (Staffordshire 71 and 72, C1726-1815, 1830-38).

thesis

Blazier, Stella M. ‘The Wolverhampton Case’ (MA thesis, CNAA, Wolverhampton

Polytechnic, 1985)

printed sources




Mander, Gerald P. ‘The Chapel in John Street’ I-VI The Green Can ( ) 82-3, 112, 140-

1, ??, 92-3, 116-7 (Wolverhampton, Mander’s Paints magazine)

Robertson, James ‘Religious liberty applied in the case of the Old Meeting House at

Wolverhampton’ The Congregationalist Magazine (January 1918)

Worthing


Yarmouth, see Great Yarmouth

Yeovil

Founded 1660, built 1704, 1809, Vicarage St Kingston 1969 122 Goldcroft

archive material

Somerset RO;

PRO (Somerset 95, C 1833-??, B1833-36).

printed sources




York, St Saviourgate

Founded 1692, built St Saviourgate 1693

archive material

Church;

Univ York Borthwick Inst;

PRO(Yorkshire 419, 1721-1837);

Unitarian College Collection.

Dissertation

Alborn, TL The York Unitarians: theology, science, and the tensions of modern

liberalism (A.B dissertation, Harvard University, 1986)

printed sources

Dale, B. Historical sketch of early nonconformity in the City of York (York, 1904)

Ellerby, William and Pritchett, James Pigott ed. Edward Royle A history of the

Nonconformist churches of York (York, Borthwick Texts and Calendars 18, 1993)


Kenrick, John Memorials of the Presbyterian Chapel, St,. Saviourgate, York, from the

origin . . . to the presnt time (1869)

Plant, Helen Unitarianism, philanthropy and feminism in York, 1782-1821: the career

of Catherine Cappe [Borthwick Institute Paper 103] [based on her Ph.D thesis]

Royle, Edward Nonconformity in nineteenth century York (University of York, 1985)

Willis, Ronald Nonconformist Chapels of York 1693-1840 (York Georgian Society

Occasional Paper 8, n.d.) pp.3-7

York, Unitarian Baptist

Unitarian Baptist Chapel, Jubbergate

archive material

printed sources

Eaton, David Scripture, the only guide to religious truth: a narrative of the

proceedings of the Society of Baptists in York in relinquishing the popular systems of

religion . . . (York, 1800; 2nd ed London, 1809)

Ellerby, William and Pritchett, James Pigott ed. Edward Royle A history of the

Nonconformist churches of York (York, Borthwick Texts and Calendars 18, 1993)

Willis, Ronald Nonconformist Chapels of York 1693-1840 (York Georgian Society

Occasional Paper 8, n.d.) pp.20-21

IRELAND

Agnew, A. L. and McLeery, J. The story of the Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of

Ireland told for its Sunday Schools (NSPCI ,1964)

Allen, Robert The principle of Non-subscription (Ph.D thesis, The Queen’s University

of Belfast, 1944)

Allen, Robert ‘Henry Montgomery 1788-1865’ Cronne, H. A. Moody, T. W. and

Quinn, D. B. eds. Essays in British and Irish history in honour of James Eadie Todd

(London, 1949)

Armstrong, James Discourse on Presbyterian Ordination (Dublin 1829) [given At

James Martineau's ordination at Eustace St. Dublin] [Appendix of 54 pages 'Summary

history of the Presbyterian churches in the City of Dublin' ]

Barkley, J. M. ‘The Arian schism in Ireland, 1830’ in Baker, D. ed. Studies in church

history ix Schism, heresy and religious protest (1972) pp. 323-329

Barlow, Richard B., ‘The career of John Abernethy ...’, Harvard Theological Review

78 (1985).

Barlow, R. B. ‘The career of James Duchal, 1697-1761’ The Non-subscribing

Presbyterian 978 and 979 (March and April 1988) pp.26-29,

Barlow, R. B. ‘The career of John Abernethy (1660-1740), father of Non-subscription

in Ireland and defender of religious liberty’ Harvard Theological Review 78:3-4

(1985) 399-419

Beckett, J. C. Protestant Dissent in Ireland 1687-1780 (London, Faber and Faber,

1948)

Brooke, P. E. C ‘Controversies in Ulster Presbyterianism 1790-1836’ (Ph.D. thesis,

University of Cambridge, 1981)

Brooke, Peter Ulster Presbyterianism: the Historical Perspective 1610-1970, (Dublin,

Gill and Macmillan, 1987) [ published version of the above thesis]

Brown, A. Godfrey, ‘John Abernethy’, in Gerard O’Brien and Peter Roebuck eds.,

Nine Ulster lives (Belfast, 1992)

Brown, A. W. Godfrey Irish Presbyterian theology in the early eighteenth century

(Ph.D. thesis, The Queen’s University of Belfast, 1977)

Brown, A. W. Godfrey ‘A theological interpretation of the First Subscription

Controversy (1719-1728)’ in Hairie, J. L. M. ed Challenge and conflict: essays in Irish

Presbyterian history and doctrine (Antrim, 1981) pp. 28-45

Brown, Michael ‘"The ministry of ethics": Francis Hutcheson and the language of

New Light theology’, in Kevin Herlihy ed. Propagating the word of Irish Dissent, 1650-

1800 (Dublin, 1998)

Campbell, J. A short history of the Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland

(1914)

Campbell, T.D. `Francis Hutcheson: "father" of the Scottish Enlightenment’, in R.H.

Campbell and Andrew S. Skinner eds. The origins and nature of the Scottish

Enlightenment (Edinburgh, 1982) AB

Crawford, R. G. ‘The second subscription controversy and the personalities of the

non-subscribers’ in Hairie, J. L. M. ed. Challenge and conflict: essays in Irish

Presbyterian history and doctrine (Antrim. 1981) pp.96-115

Cromie, Alexander Stuart Controversy among Southern Presbyterians (Belfast, n.d.

but 1999-2000) [a history of the orthodox Presbytery of Munster Widow’s Fund

which was established after an 1846 legal case which divided the Synod of Munster’s

Widows Fund in two. Much information about Non-subscribing and Unitarian

congregations. Chapter 9 is specifically devoted to ‘Congregations in the Synod of

Munster continuing’.]

Crozier, J. A. The life of the Rev. H. Montgomery LL.D. volume 1 [volume 2 was never

written]

Davies, Simon ‘The idea of nationalism in Belfast in the late eighteenth century’


Dryasdust, 'Historical Reflections' NSP 1993-2012 [historical sketches for each NSP

church, plus brief biographies of all the ministers]

Herlihy, Kevin The Irish Dissenting Tradition 1650-1750 (Four Courts Press, 1995)

Holmes, R. Finlay. G. ‘Controversy and schism in the Synod of Ulster in the 1820s’ in

Hairie, J. L. M. ed. Challenge and conflict: essays in Irish Presbyterian history and

doctrine (Antrim, 1981) pp. 116-133

Holmes, R. Finlay G. Henry Cook 1981 pp.31-91 [chapter 1 The making of the

champion of orthodoxy [Henry Cook] chapter 2 The campaign against Arianism 1. In

the Belfast Institution; chapter 3 The campaign against Arianism 2 In the Synod of

Ulster; chapter 4 Separation and strife]

Holmes, R. Finlay ‘The Reverend John Abernethy: the challenge of New Light

theology to traditional Irish Presbyterian Calvinism’, in Kevin Herlihy ed., The religion

of Irish Dissent 1650-1800 (Blackrock, 1996), pp. 100-11

Jamieson, John The history of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, 1810-1960

(Belfast, 1959)

McBride, Ian ‘William Drennan and the Dissenting tradition’ in Dickson, D., Keogh,

D., and Whelan, K. eds. The United Irishmen: republicanism, radicalism and rebellion

(Dublin, Lilliput Press, 1993) 49-61

McBride, Ian, `The school of virtue: Francis Hutcheson, Irish Presbyterians and the

Scottish Enlightenment’, in Boyce, D.G., Eccleshall, Robert and Geoghegan, Vincent

eds. Political thought in Ireland since the seventeenth century (Lond on, 1993)

McCourt, Malcolm P.A. ‘Non-subscribing Presbyterians and the Irish census in the

19th century: an example of confusion for statisticians’ TUHS 16:3 (1977) 133-135

McLachlan, H. John ‘The Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland: its heritage

and ethos’ TUHS 17:4 (1982) 144-154

McLachlan, Herbert ‘The Irish Academies’ TUHS 6:2 (1936) 91-102 [reprinted

Essays and Addresses, (Manchester University Press, 1950) pp. 167-177]

McMillan, William The subscription controversy in Irish Presbyterianism from the

plantation of Ulster to the present day with reference to the political implications in

the late eighteenth century 2 volumes (M.A. thesis, University of Manchester, 1959)

McMillan, William A profile in courage: Henry Montgomery 1788-1865 (Newry, E.

Hodgett Ltd, 1966)

Pike, Clement The story of religion in Ireland (London, The Sunday School

Association, 1895)

Reid, James Seaton [continued by Killen, W. E.] History of the Presbyterian Church in

Ireland Volume 3 (London, Whittaker and Co., 1853 [covers the period in Irish

Presbyterian history from 1690 to 1841 and the controversies regarding

subscription]

Smyth, Damian (ed.) supplement to Fortnight 308 [Belfast 1992].

Steers, David ‘New Light’ thinking and Non-Subscription amongst Protestant

Dissenters in England and Ireland in the early eighteenth century and their

relationship with Glasgow University and Scotland. (Ph.D thesis, University of

Glasgow, 2006)

Steers, A.D.G. ‘Samuel Haliday (1685-1739): travelling scholar, court lobbyist, and

non-subscribing divine’ in Savage, Ruth (ed.) Philosophy and Religion in

Enlightenment Britain: New Case Studies (Oxford University Press, 2012)

Stewart, A. T. Q. A deeper silence: the hidden origins of the United Irish Movement

(London, Faber and Faber, 1993)

Stewart, M. A. ‘Francis Hutcheson’ in Smyth, Damian ed Fortnight (Issue no. 308,

n.d., but September 1992)

Stewart M. A. 'Rational Dissent in early eighteenth-century Ireland' in Haakonssen,

Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent in 18th century Britain

(Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp.42-63

A history of congregations in the Presbyterian Church of Ireland 1610-1982

(Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Belfast, 1982) [Gives the early history of

most congregations which become Non-subscribing. Needs to be used with care

since the later history of the congregations concerned is the subscribing, not the

non-subscribing, continuation. Does not include Remonstrant Synod erections, nor

Dublin]

Records of the General Synod of Ulster, from 1691 to 1820 3 volumes (1890-8)

William Livingston-Wodrow Correspondence [National Library of Scotland,

Edinburgh] important ms source for the 1st Subscription Controversy

Antrim

Founded 1619, built 1701, 1892, closed 1980

archive material

printed sources


(Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Belfast 1982) pp.16-18


Ballee

Old Presbyterian MH Founded 1697, built 1721, 1890 (MIC 1B/3A register 1811-

1985)

archive material

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, CR/4

printed sources

Cavem, Jayne [The church secretary is currently writing a history, 2015]


Hutton, Jennifer Ballee in the Heart of Lecale (2014) [A history of the Church of

Ireland congregation, with a section on the Non-subscribers]

Ballycarry

Founded Presbyterian Church 1646, built Main St 1871

archive material


Session Book 1704-1780 [In custody of minister 1998]

printed sources


(Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Belfast, 1982) pp. 57-58


Nelson, John 'The career of William Glendy' Non-Subscribing Presbyterian 1105

(October 1998) 226-9

Nelson, J.W. Ballycarry Old Presbyterian Church. A Brief History of the Present

Church Building,(2010)

Nelson, J.W. Edward Brice and the Origins of Presbyterianism in Ireland,(2013)

Ballyclare

Founded MH 1646, built Main St 1871

archive material


printed sources


(Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Belfast 1982) pp. 59-60


Ballyhemlin


archive material

printed sources


Ballymoney

Founded 1835

archive material

printed sources


Banbridge

First Presbyterian Non Subscribing Congregation Founded and built 1716, Downshire

Rd 1844

archive material


printed sources


(Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Belfast 1982) pp. 108-109


Bandon

Founded c.1679 (date of first ministry)

archive material

printed sources


(Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Belfast 1982) p.110

Beard, J.R. Unitarianism in its actual contition (1846) p. 187

Bennett, George The History of Bandon pp.439-441


but 1999-2000)

pp. 198-9


Belfast

First Presbyterian Church Founded 1644, built 1688, 1708, Rosemary St 1783 .

archive material


printed sources

Banham, Tom Rosemary Street Church in the Seventeenth Century (First

Presbyterian Church, Belfast, 1994)

Banham, D.G Historical Theology of First House Belfast: 1783-1983 (Publisher not

identified, 1983)


[Gordon, Alexander and Smith, G. K.] Historic memorials of the First Presbyterian

Church of Belfast (1887)

McLachlan, John Rosemary Street Church in the Twentieth Century (First

Presbyterian Church, Belfast, 1994)

Moore, Tom A history of the First Presbyterian Church, Belfast 1644-1983 (Belfast,

First Presbyterian Church, 1983)

[Moore, Tom ] First Presbyterian Church, Belfast 1644-1994: A Chronological History

(Published by the Congregational Committee, 1994) [A chronological list of events

and developments in the life of the Congregation during its first 350 years].

Nelson, John Rosemary Street Church in the Eighteenth Century (First Presbyterian

Church, Belfast, 1994)

Steers, David Rosemary Street Church in the Nineteenth Century (First Presbyterian

Church, Belfast, 1994)

Wilde, Reginald W. ed. Three hundred years of worship, work and witness : 1644-

1944 : the story of the First Presbyterian Church of Belfast, founded 1644 : the

mother church of Presbyterianism in Belfast (1944)



Belfast

Second Presbyterian Congregation (All Souls') Founded and built 1708, 1896

archive material


printed sources


Millin, S. Shannon History of the second congregation of Protestant Dissenters in

Belfast 1708-1896 (1900) pp.121

Steers, David ed. One hundred years of worship and witness: centenary addresses

given at All Souls’ Church, Belfast [1997]

Steers, David 'Building a New Church in Belfast in 1896' New Ulster, The Journal of

the Ulster S ociety, No. 30, December 1996.

Steers, David 'Edward Bunting and Belfast's Second Presbyterian Congregation', The

Bulletin of the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, vol. 25, (1996), pp. 22-9.

Belfast

Domestic Mission Founded 1853, built 1864 destroyed by fire.

archive material


printed sources

McCafferty, W. H. Belfast Domestic Mission, 1853-1953

Belfast Moutpottinger


archive material

printed sources


Belfast

York Street: Founded and built 1840, 1891, merged with Second Presbyterian

Congregation (All Souls')

archive material

printed sources


Steers, David '150th Anniversary of York Street Church, Belfast', The Non-Subscribing

Presbyterian, November 1990.

Cairncastle


archive material

printed sources


(Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Belfast, 1982) p.261


Carrickfergus

Founded 1835, built 1836-

archive material

printed sources


Clonmel

Built 1782

archive material

Minute Book 1825 - [formerly in posession of Stoke family now in Clonmel Museum]

[info from David Butler, University of Cork, 19 April 1999]

printed sources

Beard, J.R. Unitarianism in its actual contition (1846), p.188

Burke, William P History of History of Clonmel (1907 reprinted 1983)


but 1999-2000) pp. 199-202


Pulbrook, Martin ‘Unitarianism in Clonmel’ New Meeting House, Prince’s St., Cork

Newsletter 10 (May 1999) 6-10



Clough

Non Subscribing Presbyterian Church Founded 1829, built 1837

archive material


printed sources




Comber

Non Subscribing Presbyterian Church Founded 1836, built Mill St 1838

archive material


printed sources


Corboy, Co. Longford

A Remonstrant Synod congregation existed here

‘Nonsubscription and Unitarianism at Corboy’ (New Meeting House, Princes St.,

Cork, Newsletter 11 June 1999) 5-11

Cork


archive material

c. 1955-57 there existed: 1. 2 ms volumes 1700-1842 being principally birht, marraiges and deaths and some

minutes

2. Deed making over present church building and attached property to the

congregation

3. 2 licences to preach dated 1718 and 1819 issued by Bishop’s Court to Senior

minister Presbyterian Congregation, Pronce’s Street, Cork

4. A fragmentary subscriptiomnslist for building ofpresnt church

5. Deeds covering conveyance of head rents for use of congregation of Prince’s

Street Church and Deeds of appointment of successive trsutees

[Paper headed ‘Synod of Munster’ included as page 6 of New Meeting House,

Prince’s Street, Cork Newsletter (1999) the page has written on it by hand Museum

Reg. No 1666.3377]

printed sources


(Presbyterian

Historical Society of Ireland, Belfast 1982) p.340-341

'Cork worthies of the last century: Rev. Dr Hincks' Journal of Cork Historical and

Archaeological Society 22 (19i6) 126-127

'The Presbyterians in Cork' Journal of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 48

(1943) p.40

Cromie, Alexander Presbyterianism in the City of Cork (Commercial Graphics N.I. Ltd,

2004)

Cromie, Alexander Controversy among Southern Presbyterians (Belfast, n.d. 1999 ?)

pp. 202-205

Day, Robert 'On the silver communion plate in the Presbyterian Church, Princes

Street, Cork' Journal of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 14 (1908) 61-62


Crumlin


archive material



printed sources


Downpatrick

First Presbyterian Church Founded 1650, built Stream St 1710

archive material


printed sources




Stewart, Mary History of the First Presbyterian (Non-Subscribing) Church,

Downpatrick: To Celebrate the Tercentenary of the Stream Street Church 1711-2011

(First Presbyterian Church, Downpatrick, 2011)

[no author, no title] (1909) pp.8

Dromore

First Non Subscribing Presbyterian Church founded 1622, built Rampart St 1801

archive material


printed sources




Dublin (General)

archive material

printed sources

Armstrong, James Discourse on Presbyterian Ordination (Dublin 1829) [given At

James Martineau's ordination at Eustace St. Dublin] [Appendix of 54 pages 'Summary

history of the Presbyterian churches in the City of Dublin']

Carpenter. John William Thomas Emlyn: 'Humble Inqurer' (M.Phil thesis, University

of Dublin, Trinity College, 1992)

Hicks, E. Savell The Unitarian movement: a brief history of its origin and

development in Dublin and elsewhere (Dublin, Irish Unitarian Christian Society, 1944)

Ffeary-Smyrl, Steven ‘Theatres of Worship’: Dissenting Meeting Houses in Dublin,

1750-1750’ in Herlihy, Kevin The Irish Dissenting Tradition 1650-1750 (Four Courts

Press, 1995) pp. 49-53, 62-3

Kilroy, Phil ‘Protestant dissent and controversy, 1660-1711’ (Ph.D. thesis, University

of Dublin, Trinity College, 1992) [deals with early history of Wood Street

congregation]

Kilroy, Phil Protestant Dissent and Controversy in Ireland 1660-1714 (Cork University

Press, 1994.)

Matthews, George An account of the trial on 14th June, 1703 before the court of

Queen's Bench, Dublin of the Reverend Thomas Emlyn, for a publication against the

doctrine of the Trinity with a sketch of his associates, predecessors and successors

(Dublin, 1839)

Smyrl, Steven C. Dictionary of Dublin Dissent: Dublin's Protestant Dissenting Meeting

Houses 1660-1920 (A & A Farmer, 2009)

Wright, Kenneth The Unitarian congregation in Dublin: a short historical note (1985)

Dublin Cooke Street

archive material

printed sources


Dublin, Eustace Street

Founded 1653 New Row -; Eustace St 1728-; Stephen’s Green

archive material

printed sources


Steers, David 'Martineau's First Ministry' The Inquirer, 21 March 1992.

Dublin Strand Street

Founded 1667; Wood Street - 1764; Strand St 1764-1863, Stephen’s Green 1863

archive material

printed sources


Ralph Waller ‘James Martineau in the catholic spirit amid the tensions of Dublin

1828-1832’ in W. J. Shiels and Diana Wood eds. The churches, Ireland and the Irish

(1989) pp.223-232 [Studies in Church History 25]

Dublin Stephen's Green


archive material

printed sources


Dunmurry

Non subscribing Church founded 1676, built 1714, Glebe 1779

archive material


printed sources




Fethard

St John’s Town c.1728 Moor St (now Burke St) 1739-1850 [orthodox Presbyterian

1850-1923]

archive material

“registers went first 1893 to Clonmel Presbyterian Church and then in a bag to

Trinity Presbyterian Church, Summerhill North, Cork with registers from other

defunct Presbytery of Munster churches. The bag was attacked by damp, and the

remains are said to be well-nigh illegible . . . a copy of the Fethard Marriage Register,

at least, survives among Tipperary county records” [New Meeting House, Prince’s

St., Cork Newsletter 16 (November 1999) 4-8

[as below]

printed sources

‘The Unitarians of Fethard, Co, Tipperary’ New Meeting House, Prince’s St., Cork

Newsletter 16 (November 1999) 4-8

Cromie, Alexander Controversy among Southern Presbyterians (Belfast, n.d. 1999 ?)

pp. 129-134

Glenarm


archive material

printed sources




Greyabbey and Ballywater


archive material

printed sources




Holywood


archive material

printed sources


(Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Belfast 1982) p.524-5


Robinson, James; Stevenson, James; and Robinson, Mary First Holywood

Presbyterian Church (First Holywood Presbyterian Church, 2015) [mainly about

Subscribers, but early section includes Non-Subsribers too]

Killinchy

Non Subscribing Presbyterian Church founded and built 1670, 1846

archive material


printed sources




McCormick, J Killinchy Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Congregation and its Ministers

(Killinchy NSPC, 2013)

Larne and Kilwaughter


archive material

printed sources


Hay, W. [no title] (1889) pp.24 [UHS15]

Porter, Classon Congregational memoirs: Old Presbyterian congregation of Larne

and Kilwaughter (1929) [reprinted from The Christian Unitarian ?1864]

Porter, Classon (edited and continued by Mcllrath, R. H. and Nelson, J. W.)

Congregational memoirs: the Old Presbyterian congregation of Larne and

Kilwaughter (Larne, 1975)



Limavady

archive material

printed sources




Moira


archive material

printed sources




Moneyreagh

Non Subscribing Presbyterian Church founded 1719, built 1770

archive material


printed sources


McMillan, William A history of the Moneyreagh Congregation, 1789-1969

(Newtownards, 1969)



Newry

First Presbyterian Non Subscribing Church founded 1650, built 1688, 1853

archive material


printed sources




Newtownards

First Presbyterian Congregation founded 1642, built 1724, Victoria Ave 1924

archive material


printed sources




Rademon

Non Subscribing Presbyterian Church (First Kilmore) founded 1713, built 1715, 1787

archive material


printed sources


(Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, Belfast 1982) p.565 [1st Kilmore]


Raloo

(Remonstant)

Founded and built 1838

archive material

Christening Bowl (hallmarked Chester 1904) [In custody of minister 1998]

printed sources


Ravara


archive material

printed sources


Templepatrick

Presbyterian Church founded 1627, built 1670, 1784

archive material


printed sources




Gordon, Alexander Historic memorials of the Remonstrant Presbyterian

Congregation of Templepatrick (Belfast,1899) pp.52 [UHS15]

Warrenpoint

First Presbyterian Church (Remonstrant) founded and built 1707, Burren Rd 1820

archive material


printed sources




Presbyteries, etc

Free Congregational Union (Ireland)

Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland

Northern Presbytery of Antrim

Presbytery of Armagh

The Ministers' Meeting of Antrim and Down

The Ulster Unitarian Christian Association

The Irish Unitarian Society

The Association for the Protection of the Rights of Conscience

Unitarian Society for the Diffusion of Christian Knowledge

SCOTLAND

‘Scottish Hymnody, xii Universalist, xiii Theistic, xiv Unitarian’ in Julian, John A

Dictionary of hymnology (London, John Murray, 1915) pp.1031-1032

Bowie, R. S. Some Stray Jottings about Universalism and its Preachers in the West of

Scotland during the past eighty years (Glasgow n.d.)

Brown, G. K. ‘Scots theologians and English Unitarians’ TUHS 8:1 (1943) 5-16

Christodoulou, Joan ‘The Glasgow Universalist Church and Scottish radicalism from

the French Revolution to Chartism’ Journal of Ecclesiastical History 43:4 (October

1992) 608-623

Fitzpatrick, Martin ‘Varieties of candour: English and Scottish style’ Enlightenment

and Dissent 7 (1988) 35-56

Fitpatrick, Martin 'The enlightenment, politics and some Scottish and English

comparisons' in Haakonssen, Knud ed. Enlightenment and religion: rational dissent

in 18th century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1996) pp.64-98

Gordon, Alexander ‘Early Scottish Unitarians [correspondence of James Purves and

Thomas Fyshe Palmer]’ TUHS 4:3 (1929) 290-295

Henderson, H.F. The religious controversies of Scotland (Edinburgh 1905) [chapter 1

deals with the case of John Simson]

Hill, Andrew ‘Unitarians’ in Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology’

(Edinburgh, 1993)

McWhirter, Archibald ‘Unitarianism in Scotland’ Records of the Scottish Church

History Society ?

O’Rourke, D. T. ‘Copyright, blasphemy and the Unitarians [John Page Hopps]’ TUHS

14:3 (1968) 162-165

Seaburg, Alan ‘Missionary to Scotland: Caroline Augusta Soule’ TUHS 14:1 (1967) 28-

41

Short, Leonard Baker ‘The challenge to Scottish Calvinism’ The Hibbert Journal 62

(1963-4) 27-31, 87-91, 142-6

Short, L. Baker Pioneers of Scottish Unitarianism (Privately printed, 1963)

Short, L. Baker ‘William Christie and the first Unitarian church in Scotland 1’ TUHS

14:1 (1967) 10-27; 14:2 (1968) 78-92

Street, Kenneth ‘Scottish Unitarian Association’ in Findlow, Bruce ed. Scottish

Unitarian Churches (London, Lindsey Press, 1963) pp.23-26

Webster, Alexander Memoirs of Ministry (London, 1913) [the author was Unitarian

minister in Paisley, Perth, Glasgow, Kilmarnock and Aberdeen]

Wicker , Colin Herbert Three Scottish Unitarians: a study in historical deviance (Ph.D.

thesis, International Institute for Advanced Studies, 1986) [Thomas Aikenhead

(1678-1697), William Christie (1748-1823), and Henry Williamson (1839-1925)]

Aberdeen

Founded 1835, built George St 1840, Skene St 1906

archive material

Church;

Strathclyde Regional Archives (TD 983/2/1/1-3).

printed sources

‘The Williamson Memorial Window’ The Calendar (July and August 1979)


Gibson, Colin ‘Aberdeen Unitarian Church’ in Findlow, Bruce ed. Scottish Unitarian

Churches (London, Lindsey Press, 1963) pp.3-7

Jones, H. H. Ceiron The Unitarian Church, Skene Street, Aberdeen: centenary

souvenir 1833-1933 (1933)


Dundee

Founded 1785, built Constitution Hill 1870, Dudhope St 1969

archive material

Dundee Archives Centre;

Strathclyde Regional Archives (TD983/2/2/1-4).

printed sources


Webster, Douglas ‘The Williamson Memorial Unitarian Church, Dundee’ in Findlow,

Bruce ed. Scottish Unitarian Churches (London, Lindsey Press, 1963) pp. 8-12

Wicker, Colin H. Unitarians in Dundee: Williamson Memorial Unitarian Christian

Church: a short history (Dundee, 1984)

[Wicker, Colin H. ed] The Church Library (Unitarian Christian Church (Williamson

memorial) Dudhope Street, Dundee n.d.)

Edinburgh

Founded 1776, built Young St 1823, St. Mark's Castle Terrace 1835

archive material

Church;

Scottish RO (CH 15/1);


Unitarian College Collection (CI 52).

printed sources


Findlow, Bruce ‘St. Mark’s Unitarian Church, Edinburgh’ in Findlow, Bruce ed.

Scottish Unitarian Churches (London, Lindsey Press, 1963) pp.13-17

Hill, Andrew M. ‘The successors of the remnant: a bicentenary account of St. Mark’s

Unitarian Church, Edinburgh ’ TUHS 16:3 (1977) 102-123; 16:4 (1978) 149-175

Edinburgh

Founded Unitarian Fellowship 1952-74

archive material

Scottish RO (CH 15/2).

printed sources

Falkirk

St Paul's Universalist Church founded 1867, built 1875-1929

archive material

Many refs. in Dundee Church records.

printed sources

Jubilee of the Universalist Church, Stenhousemuir, Larbert, Scotland (Falkirk, 1917)

Girvan

Founded and built Wilson St 1850-63

archive material

Scottish RO (Church 15/1/45).

printed sources

Glasgow

Founded 1791, built Union St 1812 St Vincent St 1856-1974, Berkeley St 1974-

archive material

Strathclyde Regional Archives, Mitchell Library (TO 978/1-17)

printed sources

Glasgow Unitarian Church, St. Vincent Street 1856-1956: a brief account of the

history of the church during the past 100 years (Glasgow, 1956)


Kirby, Allen ‘The Glasgow Unitarian Church’ in Findlow, Bruce ed. Scottish Unitarian

Churches (London, Lindsey Press, 1963) pp.18-22

Cameron, Kenneth Walter ed. Emerson, Glasgow and John Page Hopps: the Unitarian

struggle with Scottish Calvinism (Hartford, Transcendentalist Books, 1998)

‘Early Unitarianism in Glasgow [? Christian Life] September 15th 1900 p.446

[also Henry Williamson in the next issue.] [WHB Scrapbook 33]

Glasgow Calton

Founded 1871, built South St Mungo St, Ross St 1876-1947

archive material

Strathclyde Regional Archives;

Mitchell Library (TD978/18-21);

Ms diary of Joseph Taylor (minister 1884-5) with his grandaughter Rosemary Mercer,

Wellington, New Zealand (1998). [Andrew Hill has a typescript copy]

printed sources


Kilbarchan

Founded 1887, built New St 1891-1900

archive material

Strathclyde Regional Archives (TD 383).

printed sources

Kilmarnock

Founded 1795. Clerk's Lane Church built 1885, closed 1907

archive material


printed sources

Kirkaldy


archive material

see Glasgow St Vincent St records;


printed sources

Paisley

Founded before 1814, built 1818, closed 1900?

archive material

see Glasgow, St Vincent St records,


printed sources

Perth

Founded and built North William St 1876-85

archive material

Strathclyde Regional Archives (TD983/1/5/1).

printed sources

Note. There are numerous references to congregations, including those not listed

here, in Scottish Unitarian Association Archives – see Strathclyde Regional Archives

(TD 383)

WALES

archive material

Barddoniaeth. Poems by various authors including some of south Cardiganshire and

Unitarian interest and some relating to emigration to America - Welsh 19th century

[NLW 4434 A]

Bundock, D. Watkin ‘Hanes crefydd yn Nyffryn Clettwr’ Yr Ymofynndd 76 (1979) 58-

61

‘Dylan Thomas and Gwilym Marles’ Yr Ymofynnydd (Mawrth/Ebrill 1979)[a special

English number] 29-32

‘Excommunication among Welsh Independents [a letter from Ann John to Rev. Titus

Evans (1809-64)’ TUHS 3:1 (1923) 51-52

‘Welsh Hymnody, vi Unitarians ’ in Julian, John A Dictionary of hymnology (London,

John Murray, 1915) 1252-1253

Davies, D. Elwyn ‘Undidaid yn Adran Cricieth, sef y Dr W. Griffiths a’ r Dr Gweogfryn

Evans’ Yr Ymofynndd 74 (1975) 109-12

Davies, D. Elwyn They thought for themselves, a brief look at the story of

Unitarianism and the liberal tradition in Wales and beyond its borders (Llandysul,

Gomer Press, 1982)

Davies, D. Elwyn J. ‘Priestley and Wales’ TUHS 18:1 (1983) 5-8

Davies, D. Elwyn ‘Education and radical dissent in Wales in the 18th and 19th

centuries 1’ TUHS 19:2 (1988) 92-101

Davies, D. Elwyn ‘Education and radical dissent in Wales in the 18th and 19th

centuries 1’ TUHS 19:3 (1989) 181-194

Davies, David Jacob, Y fflam fyw : stori Gwilym Marles a brwydr rhyddid barn, 1868

(1968)

Davies, Dewi Eirug Hoff Ddysgedig Nyth [A history of the Presbyterian College,

Carmarthen] (Swansea, John Penry Press, 1976)

Evans, David Welsh Unitarians as schoolmasters (Llandyssul, J.D. Lewis & sons,

printers,1940)

'Hanes Capeli'r Enwad yn Sir Aberteifi [History of the Chapels of the Denomination in

Cardiganshire']. Yr Ymofynydd : Cylchgrawn Misol Cymdeithas Undodiad Deheudir

Cymru [[The Inquirer: The monthly magazine of the Unitarian Society of South

Wales], 1928-33

Jenkins, Geraint H. Protestant Dissenters in Wales (1662-1862) (Cardiff, University of

Wales Press, 1992) [Little about Unitarians as such but good for background and

useful bibliography]

Jenkins, J. G. Hanford Duw a Pherson Crist (1931)

Jones, J. Eric Dyn bach o'r wlad : cyfrol deyrnged i D. Jacob Davies golygydd (1984)

Jones, J. Eric The Good Ground, Unitarian Places of Worship in Wales (the author,

2009)

Jones, J. Islan ‘Daniel Jones and his fund’ TUHS 11:2 (1956) 29-37

Jones, Rees Jenkin The Unitarian Students at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen in

the nineteenth century (1796-1901) (Aberdare, 1901)

Jones, Rees Jenkin ‘Our Welsh hymn book’ TUHS 2:1 (1919) 90-94

Jones, R. Tudor ‘[an annotated list of ejected ministers in Wales]’ Y Cofiadur

[Transactions of the Welsh Independents’ Historical Society] (August 1962) [lists 130

ejected ministers of whom Calamy mentions only 10]

Llwyd, Cen ‘My history, politics and religion’ Faith and Freedom 48:2 (Autumn and

Winter 1955) 157-171

Martin, A. J. ‘The centenary of Yr Ymofynnydd’’ TUHS 9:2 (1948) 118-120

Martin, Nansi Gwilym Marles (1979)

McLachlan, H. John ‘A curiosity of Welsh Unitarian literature [Charles Lloyd

Particulars of the life of a dissenting minister (1813)] TUHS 17:3 (1981) 132-134

Peate, Iowerth C. ‘A Unitarian romantic [Iolo Morganwg]’ TUHS 13:3 (1965) 97-110

Rhys, Cadvan Daniel Evelyn, Heretic (London, Drane’s, 1913) [A novel about an

heretical minister visting a chapel on the North Wales coast, who is called upon to

preach when the resident and orthodox pastor does not arrive. The illustrations

suggest the visitor is based on William Thomas (Gwilym Marles)]

Rees, Thomas History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales (London, first ed. 1861

2nd ed 1883)

Roberts, H. P. ‘The history of the Presbyterian Academy Brynllywarch-Carmarthen ’

TUHS 4:4 (1930) 333-364; 5:1 (1931) 24-42

Roberts, H. P. ‘Early Unitarian schoolmasters and schools in Wales’ TUHS 5:2 (1932)

157-164

Roberts, H. P. ' Nonconformist academies in Wales (1662-1862) Transactions of the

Honorouble Society of Cymmrodorion (1928-9)

Short, Harry Lismer ‘Wales and the Ejection’ in Nuttall, Geoffrey and others The

Beginnings of Nonconformity (London, James Clarke and Co, 1964) [The Hibbert

Lectures]

Stephens, Meic The new companion to the literature of Wales (Cardiff, University

Press of Wales, 1998)

Williams, Gwyn ‘Richard Price and Carmarthen Academy’ The Price-Priestley

Newsletter 4 (1980) 69

Williams, T. Oswald Undodiaeth a rhyddid meddwl [Unitarianism and freedom of

thought] (Llandysul, Gwasg Gomer, 1962)

Aberareon

Unitarian Fellowship founded 1968-1977

archive material

No records

printed sources

Aberdare Cwmbach

Founded 1857, built 1859 Bridge St, Abernantygroes 1879-1946

archive material

see Aberdare Highland Place Chapel records.

printed sources

Davies, D. Elwyn They thought for themselves (Llandysul, Gomer Press, 1982) p. 86


Aberdare Highland Place

Founded and built Highland Place, Monk Street 1860

archive material

Church;

Bank.

printed sources

Davies, D. Elwyn They thought for themselves (Llandysul, Gomer Press, 1982) pp. 86-

89

Davis, D. Jacob A city set on a hill (Highland Place)

Evans, George Eyre Vestiges of Protestant Dissent (Liverpool, 1897) p. 308

Jones, J. Eric Unitarian Heritage in Aberdare/ Undodiath Aberdar (Aberdare, 1997)

Jones, J. Eric Highland Place Unitarian Church: a brief history 1860-1985 (Aberdare,

1985)

Jones, J. Eric Highland Place Unitarian Church 1860-2010, A Story of Resillience

(Aberdare, 2011)

Aberdare Trecynon

Founded and built 1751 Hen Dy Cwrdd (Old Meeting), Alma St 1862

archive material

Church;

National Library of Wales (MSS 4361-70 and 14,147-14, 213 Rees Jenkin Jones MSS).

printed sources

Dafis, D. J. Crefydd a gweriniaeth yn Hanes yr Hen Dy Cwrdd Aberdar 1751-1951

(1951)


85

Davies, David L (ed, Jones, Eric J and Lewis-Jones, Keith L) They Love to be Dissenters,

Historical Background of Unitarianism in Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare (Hen Dy Cwrdd

Unitarian Church, 2012)

Edwards, Hywel Teifi [a book on the history of the Cynon Valley including 3 chapters

on Unitarian history and individuals referred to without title in The Inquirer 3 January

1998]


Howells, Alice and Gwen ‘Standpoint: being memories from Hen Dy Cwrdd

[Aberdare] Yr Ymofynndd 75 (1977) 144-7

Jones, Rees Jenkin ‘The origin and history of the Old Meeting House, Aberdare’

TUHS 1:2 (1917) 155-176

Aberpannar (Mountain Ash)

Brotherhood Church founded and built Napier St. 1912-1946

printed sources

Davies, D. Elwyn They thought for themselves (Llandysul, Gomer Press, 1982) p.120

Aberystwyth

Founded 1900, Meeting House New Street 1902-1978

archive material

National Library of Wales (Deposit 1304A-1305A).

printed sources

Nicholas, Islwyn Ap Heretics at Large: the story of a Unitarian Chapel (Llandyssul,

Gomer Press, 1977)


67

Alltyblaca


archive material

Church.

printed sources


46


Bethesda’r Fro

Sabellian Founded 1797- ?

printed sources

Davies, D. Elwyn They thought for themselves (Llandysul, Gomer Press, 1982) pp.70-

1

Bettws

archive material

printed sources


73

Blaencannaid and Cwmyglo

archive material

printed sources


77

Blaengwrach

Founded and built Hen Dy Cwrdd (Old Meeting) Glynneath c.1689-1878

archive material

National Library of Wales (MS 1144D).

printed sources

Brown Roger L. ‘Yr Hen Gapel, Blaengwrach’ Transactions of Neath Antiquarian

Society (1980-81) 32-42


93

Bridgend

Founded 1672, built 1715-20, Park St 1795

archive material

National Library of Wales (MS 7968B).

printed sources


Caeronnen see Cellan

Capel Ifan see Panteg

Capel Y Bryn see Cwrtnewydd Capel Y Bryn

Capel Y Fadfa see Talgarreg Capel-Y-Fadfa

Capel y Groes see Llanwnnen Capel Y Groes

Cardiff

Founded 1880, built West Grove 1887-2005, now at Friends’ MH

archive material

Church.

printed sources

Davies, D. Elwyn They thought for themselves (Llandysul, Gomer Press, 1982) pp.

101-104


Hutchison, R. T. Unitarianism in Cardiff (1927)

Hutchison, R. T. ‘The West Grove Unitarian Church, Cardiff, 1879-1979’ Yr

Ymofynndd 76 (1979) 46-7

Cardiff St. Fagan's see Penrhiw

Carmarthen

Founded and built 1812, Park-y-Velvet Mansel St 1849

archive material

Church;

National Library of Wales (MS 4457E).

printed sources

Davies, D. Elwyn They thought for themselves (Llandysul, Gomer Press, 1982) pp.

116-8


Cefn Coed y Cymer

Founded and built 1747 Hen Cwrdd, Old Chapel Road 1853, 1895, 1991

archive material

Church;

Glamorgan Archive Service (D/DUni 1/1-45).

printed sources


Lewis, Tom The history of Hen dy Cwrdd Cefn Coed y Cymmer (Llandyssul, Gomerian

Press, 1947) pp.77-79

Cellan

Founded and built Caeronnen 1672, 1846

archive material

Church;

National Library of Wales (MS 3500B).

printed sources


51


Williams, T. O. Cae'ronnen: tri chan mylwddiant, 1654-1747-1846-1954 (1954)

Ciliau Aeron

Founded and built 1689, 1755, 1899

archive material

Church.

printed sources


56


Clydach Vale

Founded 1893, built 1895-

archive material

printed sources


Colwyn Bay

North Wales Unitarian Fellowship founded 1959-1971

archive material

printed sources

Cribyn


archive material

Church;

National Library of Wales MSS 23182-4 [Revd. David Evans (Cribyn) papers].

printed sources


55


Cwmbach see ABERDARE Cwmbach

Cwmsychpant

Founded 1896, built Capel-y-Cwm 1906

archive material

Church.

printed sources


5

Cwmwrdu

Founded 1790, built 1832, now a Unitarian Youth Hostel.

archive material

Carmarthen RO (MS 6457);

National Library of Wales (MS 4457E).

printed sources

Davies, D. Elwyn They thought for themselves (Llandysul, Gomer Press, 1982)

pp.109-110

Cwrtnewydd

Capel-y-Bryn founded 1836, built 1882

archive material

Church.

printed sources

Davies, D. Elwyn Capel y Bryn 1882-1982 (1982)


60


Dowlais

Founded 1881 White Street

archive material

printed sources



printed sources

Felinfach

Founded 1802, built Rhydygwin 1848

archive material

Church.

printed sources


58

Evans, George Eyre Vestiges of Protestant Dissent (Liverpool, 1897) pp. 321-2

Gellionnen


archive material

see Trebanos

National Library of Wales (MSs 4364B);

PRO(Glamorgan 15, C 1767-1814).

printed sources

Davies, D. Elwyn Capel Gellionnen 1692-1992


97


'Gellionnen, 1692-1942' Yr Ymofynnydd 42 (1942) 109-28

Glanrhondda see Treorchy

Graigfargod

General Baptist founded 1753

archive material

printed sources


Lampeter (Llanbedr)

Founded 1874, built 1876, Brondeifi 1903

archive material

Church.

printed sources

‘Dathlu canmlwyddiant Brondeifi Yr Ymofynndd 74 (1975) 51-3

Evans, D. J. Goronwy Hanes Eglwys Undodaidd Brodeifi Lanbedr Pont Steffan 1874-

1974 (Llandyssul, Gwasg Gomer, n.d.)


52


Llanwnnen

Founded 1801, built Ystrad 1802, Capel-y-Groes 1890

archive material

Church.

printed sources


49


Llandysul

Founded and built Capel y Graig 1868, 1884

archive material

Church.

printed sources


63


Y Ymofnydd 28 (1868) 225 [list of members]

Llwynrhydowen see Pontsian

London Welsh Congregation

Founded 1937, met Islington, later at Essex Hall

archive material

printed sources

Davies, D. Elwyn They thought for themselves (Llandysul, Gomer Press, 1982) p.122-

4

Merthyr Tydfil Twynrodyn

Founded 1814, built 1820, Thomas St 1901-68

archive material

PRO (Glamorgan 26, C 1804-36).

printed sources

Davies, D. Elwyn They thought for themselves (Llandysul, Gomer Press, 1982) p.75,

79-80


Jones, A. A thesis and survey of the Nonconformist chapel architecture in Merthyr

Tydfil (1962)

Merthyr Tydfil Ynysgau

Founded 1659 Cluster St -? Closed nineteenth century

archive material

PRO (Denbigh 94, C1713-19, 1743-1837, B 1746-1837).

printed sources

Mountain Ash see Aberpannar

Neath

Green St Fl 1854

archive material

deeds only known to exist

printed sources

Nottage

GB founded and built 1789, 1877

archive material

Church.

printed sources



Pantdefaid see Prengwyn, Pantydefaid

Panteg

GB Capel Ifan Founded 1697, built 1764, 1900

archive material

Church.

printed sources

Davies, D. Elwyn They thought for themselves (Llandysul, Gomer Press, 1982) p.114-

5

Evans, Elsie ‘Gwasanaeth yng nghapel Panteg’ Yr Ymofynndd 69(????) 123-4


Penrhiw

Founded 1756, built Penrhiw, Drefach, Llandysul 1777-mid-nineteenth century, re-

erected Welsh National Folk Museum, St Fagans, Cardiff.

archive material

Archive of Welsh National Folk Museum,

National Library of Wales (MS4457E).

printed sources

Evans, D. J. Goronwy Penrhiw (Llandyssul, Gwasg Gomer, 1977)


pp.110-111

Jones, J. Eric ‘Dauganmlwyddiant Capel Penrhiw (symudwyd I Sain Ffagan, Caerdydd

ym 1956’ Yr Ymofynndd 75 (1977) 139-42

Jones, J. Tysul ‘Ymweliad yr Athro R.T.Jenkins (1881-1969) a Chapel Penrhiw,

Drefach ym mis chwefror, 1945’ Yr Ymofynndd 75 (1975-6) 3-5

Pentre

archive material

printed sources


Pontsian

Llwynrhydowen founded and built 1726, 1733, 1791, 1834, 1879

archive material

Church;

National Library of Wales (MSS4361B, 4844E).

printed sources


Martin, Aubrey J. Hanes Llwynrhydowen (Llandysul, Gwasg Gomer, 1977)


41

‘’The Llwynrhdowen eviction’ Yr Ymofynndd 75 (1976) 73-8

Jones, Mallie Davies ‘Yr oeddwn i yno (Hanes ‘Troad allam’ cynulleidfa Hen Capel

Undodaidd Llwynrhydowen 1876) Yr Ymofynndd 75 (1976) 42-8

Pontypridd

Founded 1801, built 1802, 1836-1976

archive material

Pontypridd RL

printed sources


91

Thomas, Gwyneth ‘Potypridd remembered’ Yr Ymofynndd 76 (1979) 33-7

Prengwyn

Pantydefaid founded 1801, built 1802, 1836

archive material

Church.


45


Rhydygwn (Ystrad) see Felinfach Rhydygwin

Rhydypark

Founded 1787, built 1860 – c.1902

archive material

printed sources


pp.113-114


St. Clears

GB Founded and built 1799-1892;

archive material

National Library of Wales (Deposit 647A; MS 4457E).

printed sources


pp.112-3


Swansea

Founded 1662, built 1689, High St 1847, rebuilt 1991

archive material

Church;

PRO (Glamorgan 47, C1766-1837);

West Glamorgan Archive Service Swansea Library (D Rhys Phillips Collection 5):

account book 1822-1832 [NRA 5790 Swansea MSS]

printed sources

Unitarian Church High Street, Swansea: brief historical notes (1991)

Cook, Lorraine A, ‘A critical investigation into Nonconformity and social reform in

Swansea 1851-1914’ (M. Phil, CNAA, Swansea Institution of Higher Education, 1992)

[May have some reference to Unitarians]


101


Jones, W. T. Rise and progress of religious free thought in Swansea (1900) pp.120

Williams, Edwin C. ‘The nonconformist movement in industrial Swansea 1780-1914’

(M. Phil, University of Wales Swansea, 1993) [May have some reference to

Unitarians]

Swansea

GB Founded and built 1689-1852

archive material

West Glamorgan Area RO Swansea (D/B 40/1-4).

printed sources

Maguire, Leonard ed. The General Baptist Church and its meeting house in Swansea,

West Glamorgan (London, General Baptist Assembly, 1988) [Occasional Paper 6]

Talgarreg

Founded 1812, built Capel-y-Fadfa 1813, 1906

archive material

Church.

printed sources


61


Trebanos

Founded 1862, built Graig 1894

archive material

Church.

printed sources

Davies, D. Elwyn Capel Gellionnen 11692-1992


97


Morgan, Haydn ‘Capel y Graig, Trebanws’ Yr Ymofynndd 74 (1974) 66-9

Trecynon see Aberdare Hen dy Cwrdd

Treorchy

Funded 1893, built Glanrhondda 1895

archive material

Church.

printed sources

Twynyrodyn see Merthyr Tydfil Twynyrodyn

Wick

GB Founded and built 1792

archive material

Church.

printed sources

Davies, D. Elwyn They thought for themselves (Llandysul, Gomer Press, 1982) p. 69


Wrexham

Founded 1659 Cluster St -? , closed after 1837

archive material

PRO (Denbigh 94, C1713-19, 1743-1837, B 1746-1837).

printed sources

COMMONWEALTH

CANADA

AUSTRALIA

NEW ZEALAND

SOUTH AFRICA

INDIA

WEST INDIES

CANADA

Backhouse, Helen ‘The Western Canada District: a unique Canadian Unitarian

identity’ Canadian Unitarian and Universalist Historical Society Occasional Paper 14

(1994)

Bramadat, Jane ‘Weaving threads in our Canadian tapestry: partial recording of

Horace Westwood’s contributions’ Canadian Unitarian and Universalist Historical

Society Occasional Paper 7 (1986)

Canadian Unitarian Council Unitarians in Canada: a centennial year report (Toronto,

Canadian Unitarian Council, 1967)

Eddis, Charles W. ‘The story of a sacred space from creation to ruins: an account of

the creations and destruction of the sanctuary of the Unitarian Church of Montreal’

Canadian Unitarian and Universalist Historical Society Occasional Paper 12 (1992)

Foulds, Louise Universalists in Ontario (Toronto, 1980)

Foulds, Louise ‘The UU Church of Olinda: a glimpse of its Universalist past and

Unitarian Universalist present’ Canadian Unitarian and Universalist Historical Society

Occasional Paper 5 (1983)

Gilbert ‘Icelandic Unitarian Connection’ Canadian Unitarian and Universalist

Historical Society Occasional Paper 6 (1988)

Gooding, Margaret K. ‘The legacy of Christopher Huntington: Universalism in the

eastern townships’ Canadian Unitarian and Universalist Historical Society Occasional

Paper 13 (1993)

Gudmundson, V. Emil The Icelandic Unitarian connection: beginnings of Icelandic

Unitarianism in North America, 1885-1900 (Winnipeg, 1984)

Hewett, A Phillip Unitarians in Canada (2nd revised edition 1995)

Hewett, A. Phillip ‘Unitarians in Canada’ Faith and Freedom 28:3 (Summer 1975)

155-159

Hewett, A. Phillip ‘The social conscience of John Cordner’ TUHS 19:1 (1987) 1-14

Hewett, A. Phillip ‘(Sir James Carter) a distinguished Unitarian in Canada I missed

from my record’ Canadian Unitarian and Universalist Historical Society Occasional

Paper 1 (1980)

Hewett, A. Phillip 'A faith transplanted: the Unitarian experience in Canada,

Australia and New Zealand' TUHS 22:1 (1999) 1-17

Holenski, Evelyne ‘Margaret Jonsdottir Benedictsson: a remarkable Icelandic

suffrage leader’ Canadian Unitarian and Universalist Historical Society Occasional

Paper 14 (1994)

Horton, Linda Weaver ed. Guarding Sacred Embers. Reflections on Canadian and

Universalist History (Canadian Unitarian and Universalist Historical Society, 2011)

Jonasson, Stefan M. 'Icelandic Unitarianism: a North American tradition' The World

(UU) 3 (March/April) 1989 12-15

Jonasson, Stefan M. 'Report on the archives of the United Conference of Icelandic

Churches (1901-1952) and the Western Canada District of the Unitarian Universalist

Association' Proceedings of the Unitarian Universalist Historical Society 22:1

(1990/91) 177-179

Mason, Leonard ‘John Cordner: first Unitarian minister in Canada’ Canadian

Unitarian and Universalist Historical Society Occasional Paper 2 (1981)

Mason, Leonard ‘Turbulent beginnings [Montreal] - 1832’ Canadian Unitarian and

Universalist Historical Society Occasional Paper 3 (1982)

Montagnes, Joan ed. Northern lights: the Unitarian Universalist congregations of the

Western Canada District (Edmonton, Moosemilk Press, 1995)

Rea, Joycelyn Loeffelholz Looking Forward at the Past!: A History of the

Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa (Legas, 1998)

Watts, Hazel ed. Guide to the records of the Canadian Unitarian and Universalist

churches, fellowships and other related organizations (Archives Committee, 1990)

Watts, Heather ‘“A man spelled large’ the ministry of Nathaniel Gunnison in Halifax,

Nova Scotia, 1857-1865’ Canadian Unitarian and Universalist Historical Society

Occasional Paper 11 (1991)

AUSTRALIA

Hewett, A. Phillip 'A faith transplanted: the Unitarian experience in Canada,


Adelaide

Hilliard, David ‘Dissenters from dissent: the Unitarians in South Australia’ Journal of

the Historical Society of South Australia 11 (1983) 92-104

Melbourne

Lee, E. Rosalind ‘The Unitarian Church, Melbourne, Victoria’ TUHS 3:4 (1926) 335-

349

Scott, Dorothy The halfway house to infidelity: a history of the Melbourne Unitarian

Church, 1853-1973 (Melbourne, 1980)

Smith, F. B. Religion and free thought in Melbourne, 1870-1890 (M.A. thesis,

University of Melbourne, 1960)

Sydney

Burgess, Walter H. ‘The Unitarian Church at Sidney’ TUHS 4:2 (1928) 138-155

Rowland, Margaret [Said to be working on a short history of the Sydney Unitarian

Church, to cover times past not treated in Eleanor Wilson's book, below] (reported in

The Unitarian Pioneer 8:40 August/September 1998)

Usher, Geoffrey Four decades of leadership 1926-1968 (referred to in The Unitarian

Pioneer 8:40 August/September 1998)

Wilson, Eleanor The Story of Sydney Unitarian Church, 1850-1974 (Darlinhurst,

N.S.W.: Sydney Unitarian Church, 1974)

NEW ZEALAND

Castle, Frank W. Annals of the Auckland Unitarian Church (1981) 38pp.

Maindonald, John H. A radical religious heritage: Auckland Unitarian Church and its

wider connections: 1898 (building 1901) - 1991 (Auckland Unitarian Church, 1991)

Maindonald, John H. A church for heretics? Auckland Unitarians and the Unitarian

tradition (Auckland Unitarian Church, 1989)

Gee, Maurice Plumb (Auckland, Oxford University Press, 1978) [author’s grandfather,

James H. G. Chapple sometime minister of the church, was model for Plumb in the

novel]

Facer, Wayne Arthur Pickard William Jellie: Unitarian, scholar and educator (M.Phil

thesis, Massey University, New Zealand, 2012)

Hewett, A. Phillip 'A faith transplanted: the Unitarian expereince in Canada,


Wellington

Records have been located at the Auckland War memorial museum

SOUTH AFRICA

Carter, Geoge E, The Life of David Peter Faure, A Unitarian in South Africa (Lewiston:

Edwon Mellen Press, 2010)

Hofmeyr, J. W. and Cross, K. E. History of the Church in South Africa volume 1 A

select bibliography of published material to 1980 (Pretoria, University of South

Africa, 1986) pp.329-332

2.13 Unitarian (Free Protestant) Church

2.13.2 Biographies, autobiographies, diaries, letters items 2578-2581

2.13.3 General histories 4 items 2582-2585

2.13.9 Denominational characteristics items 25866-2590

2.13.10 Disputes, controversies, heresy trials items 2591-2598

Steyn, Robert C. A free religious faith: Unitarianism [the story of the Free Protestant

Unitarian Church, Cape Town] (Cape Town, 1967)

Heller-Wagner, Eric The Unitarians of South Africa: A Socio-Historical Study (Ph.D

thesis, University of Stellenbosch, 1995)

Hale, Frederick ‘Contours of Pacifism: Ramsden Balmforth’s Advocacy of Peace in the

Union of South Africa and Beyond’, Acta Theologica; Vol 33, No 1 (2013); 96-113

INDIA

General

Lavan, Spencer 'Unitarianism and acculturation: Jabez Sunderland in India (1895-

1896)’ Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society 17:2 (1973-5) 73-91

Lavan, Spencer Unitarians and India: a study in encounter and response (Boston,

Beacon Press, 1977)

Madras

Lavan, Spencer 'The Madras experience' chapter 3 in Unitarians and India: a study

in encounter and response (Boston, Beacon Press, 1977) pp. 24-31 and elsewhere

Megalaya

Souvenir of the Unitarian Union, 1887-1977 (Jowai, 1977) [articles in Khasi and

English to mark the 90th anniversary of the Khasi Unitarian movement]

Barr, Margaret A dream come true: the story of Kharang (London, Lindsey Press,

1974)[edited by Smith, Roy W. ]

Findlow, Bruce Kharang: an eye-witness account of the work of Margaret Barr

among the villages of the Khasi Hills Assam, India (London, The Lindsey Press, 1955)

Jenkins, Nigel Gwalia in Khasia [Gomer, Ceredigion, 1995][about Calvinistic

Methodist missions in India - the Unitarian churches were a response to these]

Kharbuli, J. ed. Unitarian: special edition 24th IARF Congress, Holland July 1981

(Jowai, Unitarian Publication Committee, 1981)

Lawrance, Mary 'Khublei' (God Bless) the Khasi greeting: an account of the Khasi

liberal churches in Assam, India (California, Privately printed for the friends of

Margaret Barr, 1964)

Paul, Y. Surrendra ed. Margaret Barr: a universal soul (Udaipur, Unitarian Inter-Faith

fellowship of India, 1973)

Ratter, Magnus C. To Nangroi: a romance of the Khasi and Jaintia Hills (London, The

Lindsey Press, 1932)

Sparham, Griffith J. Khasi calls: an adventure in friendship (London, The Lindsey

Press, 1945)

The Brahmo Somaj

Biswas, Dilip Kumar The correspondence of Raja Rammohun Roy 1831-33 2 volumes

(1997)

Killingley, Dermot Rammohun Roy in Hindu and Christian tradition (Newcastle upon

Tyne, Grevatt and Grevattt, 1993) [Bibliography]

Kopf, David The Brahmo Somaj and the shaping of the modern Inidan mind

(Princetown, Procetown University Press, 1979)

Lavan, Spencer "The Brahmo Somaj: a movement for Hindu religious and Indian

social reform" Faith and Freedom 21:1-2 (1967-8) 21-27 and 81-90

Lillingston, Frank The Brahmo Somaj and Arya Samaj in their bearing upon

Christianity: a study in Indian theism (London, Macmillan, 1901)

Sastri, Sivanath History of the Brahmo Somaj 2nd edition (Calcutta, Sadharan

Brahmo Somaj, 1974)

Sastri, Sivanath Theistic Church in India (Calcutta, Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, 1966)

Seal, Brajendranath Rammohun Roy: the universal man (Calcutta, Sadharan Brahmo

Somaj, 1974)

Shattvabhushan, Sitanth A manual of Brahma rituals and devotions 2nd edition

(Calcutta, Sadharan Brahmo Somaj, 1971)

WEST INDIES

Morrison-Reed, Mark D. Black pioneers in a white denomination 3rd ed. (Boston,

Skinner House Books, 1994) pp. 31-63 [Egbert Ethelred Brown and Jamaica]

Morrison-Reed, Mark D. Black pioneers in a white denomination (D.Min. dissertation

Meadville/Lombard Theological School, Chicago)

Murch, Jerom Memoir of Robert Hibbert, Esquire founder of the Hibbert Trust pp.15-

25 [Hibbert appointed Thomas Cooper, Unitarian minister as chaplain to the slaves

on his Jamaican estate]

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