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In Leicester in Leicestershire, UK there been have been numerous places of worship of various denominations, including the Congregational church.[1][2][3] The first Congregationalist church in Leceister was founded 1801. Numerous others were built in the 19th century.[4] Many closed in the 20th century following the formation of union churches and declining congregations.[5]

Open churches

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Clarendon Park Congregational Church
  • Abbots Road (now United Reformed Church)[6][3]
  • Dumbleton Avenue (now Christchurch United Reformed Church)[7][3]
  • East Bond Street, Great Meeting (now Unitarian) (formerly a united Congregational and Presbyterian meeting)
  • Elmdale Street, Belgrave, Belgrave Union (a Nonconformist union church, formerly with Baptist and Congregational affiliations, now with Baptist and United Reformed Church affiliations)
  • Hinckley Road, (now Westcotes United Reformed Church)[3]
  • Linden Street, North Evington Free Church (formerly affiliated to Congregational Union, but now identifying itself as Baptist)
  • London Road, Clarendon Park Congregational Church[8], a grade II listed building[9][6][3]
  • The Common, Evington (now Wycliffe United Reformed Church)[10][3]

Closed churches

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  • Bath Street, Belgrave, (demolished)[3]
  • Bond Street 1803[4](demolished)[3]
  • College Street, acquired from the Collegiate School in 1866. The original Gothic building, erected in 1835, was bought by the Leicester Education Committee in 1954.[4]
  • Collegiate Church (Congregational) (part of the old Collegiate School)
  • Gallowtree Gate (1823-1921), demolished 1927[4][3]
  • Granby Street (1801, enlarged 1821 and 1864)[4], (demolished)[3], later site of Charles Street Baptist school
  • Harvey Lane
  • Humberstone Road (1880), Union church[4](demolished)[3][11]
  • London Road[4][3]opened for worship April 28, 1858- demolition July 1960[9]
  • Main Street, Humberstone[3]
  • Millstone Lane (demolished)[3]
  • Oxford Street (1815, replaced in 1863)[4][3]
  • Peel Street,(demolished)[3]
  • Sanvey Gate[3]
  • Willow Street (1837-1936), Wycliffee church[4], (demolished)[3]

See also

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Sources

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  • A Brief History of Free Churches in Leicestershire & Rutland, Rev A A Betteridge
  • Leicester Congregationalism, 1800-1910, H T Chambers (1910)
  • Those Taking Part 1802-1952: A brief history of Bond Street Congregational Church Leicester, E M Drew (1951)
  • Abbots Road United Reformed Church: The First Fifty Years, Eric A Hanson (1979)
  • The Story of Our Churches 1662-1962, Leicester & Rutland Congregational Union (1962)
  • Centenary of the London Road Congregational Church, Leicester 1857-1957, W Orr (1957)
  • Gallowtree Gate Congregational Chapel Leicester 1823-1921, Gerald T Rimmington (1999)

Baptist churches

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Central Baptist Church, Charles Street (1830)

In Leicester in Leicestershire, UK there been have been numerous places of worship of various denominations, including the Baptists.[12][2][13] The first congregation of Baptists in Leceister was founded 1651. Numerous chapels were built subsequently, many in the 19th century.[14][4] Leicester in that period was called the ‘Metropolis of Dissent’ with a large number of non-conformist chapels and churches, among them Baptist.[15] One of the grandest was the "Pork Pie Chapel" (the Belvoir Street Chapel) built in 1845 to a design by Joseph Hansom.[16]

As of 2008, there were 13 active Baptist churches in the city.[17] The following is a list of Baptist church buildings in the city, both closed and open, the several of which are Grade II listed buildings. [18]

Open churches

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Stoneygate Baptist Church, London Road (1914)
Baptist North Evington Free Church, Linden Street
  • Braunstone Avenue / Hallam Crescent East, Friar Lane & Braunstone Baptist Church[19]
  • Buckminster Road, Archdeacon Lane Memorial Baptist Church[20]
  • Charles Street, Central Baptist Church (1830)[14][15][21], a Grade II listed building (1074071)[22]
  • Harrison Road, Carey Hall[23]
  • Linden Street / Gedding Road, Baptist North Evington Free Church[24]
  • London Road, Stoneygate Baptist Church (1914)[25][26]
  • Loughborough Road, Union Church[27]
  • Lutterworth Road, Aylestone Baptist Church[28]
  • Main Street Evington, a Grade II listed building (1361414)[29]
  • Melbourne Hall, Evangelical Free Church (1881), a Grade II listed building(1334632)[30][31]
  • Narborough Road, Robert Hall Memorial Baptist Church, (1901)[32] a Grade II listed building (1391754)[33]
  • Park Hill Drive, Zion Chapel[34]
  • Uppingham Road[35]
  • Wharf Street North, Carley Evangelical Baptist Church[36]

Closed churches

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  • Archdeacon Lane (1836-1936)[14][4]
  • Abbey Gate (1882)[32]
  • Alfred Street, Trinity Chapel (1840-1890)[32]
  • Belgrave Gate, Tabernacle (1869-1921)[32]
  • Belvoir Street (1845), known as the Pork Pie, from its shape[15][4][14] designed by Joseph Hansom[16][37], now known as Hanson Hall, a Grade II listed building (1361372)[38]
  • Burgess Street
  • Carley Street (c.1823/24) closed in 1864, reopened in 1876, enlarged in 1882[4]
  • Catherine Street, Carey Hall(1897)[32]
  • Clarendon Park Road, Clarendon Park Baptist Church[39]
  • Clarendon Park Road, Knighton Public Hall Church
  • Dover Street (1823-1919)[14], sold in 1922[4]
  • Erskine Street, Zion Chapel (1873)[32]
  • Friar Lane, site of earliest meetings in various constructions: in 1719, in 1783 (expanded in 1818 and 1841), and in 1865[4]
  • Harvey Lane[40]
  • Ingold Avenue, Socking Farm (1955)[32]
  • Millstone Lane
  • Melton Street (c1860-c.1870)[32]
  • Navigation Street (1864–1870)[32]
  • New Park Street / Leamington Street, Emmanuel Union Church
  • New Walk, Leicestershire Sunday School Union Memorial Hall
  • Newarke Street, Providence Chapel
  • Overton Road, New Humberstone Baptist Mission
  • St Peter's Lane, Ebenezer Chapel (1803)[32]
  • Sanvey Lane, Aylestone
  • Soar Lane
  • Thorpe Street
  • Victoria Road (University Road)[14]
  • Vine Street
  • York Street, Zoar Chapel

See also

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Sources

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  • A Brief History of Free Churches in Leicestershire & Rutland, Rev A A Betteridge
  • The Story of the East Midlands Baptist Association, Fred M W Harrison, 1986
  • Places of Worship in the City of Leicester, Leicester Council of Faiths, 2004

References

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  1. ^ Moore, Andre (2008). Where Leicester Has Worshipped. ISBN 978-0-9533628-2-0.
  2. ^ a b "Faith & Belief - Story of Leicester". www.storyofleicester.info.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Mapped - University of Leicester Archeology and Ancient History Mapping Faith and Place
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "The ancient borough: Protestant Nonconformity: A History of the County of Leicester: Volume 4". Victoria County History. 1958. pp. 390–394. Retrieved January 11, 2020. The Congregational chapel in Bond Street was founded in 1800, partly by a secession of those members of the Great Meeting who did not welcome the advance towards Unitarianism being made by the meeting at that time. Their first chapel was in Granby Street, on the site of the subsequent Charles Street Baptist school. This chapel was purchased in 1801 from the Kilhamites or New Connexion Methodists. The Bond Street chapel was built in 1803 and enlarged in 1821 and 1864. A second chapel in Gallowtree Gate was built in 1823 and underwent considerable alterations during the last century before it was closed in 1921, together with the attached Sunday school. The building was demolished in 1927. Chapel Yard, on the West side of the street, is the only surviving indication of its existence. A Congregational chapel in London Road was built in 1858; one in Oxford Street, replacing an earlier building of about 1815, was built in 1863; one in Willow Street was opened about 1873 and closed about 1936; and the Union church in Humberstone Road at the corner of Newby Street was built in 1880. The Wycliffe church in College Street was acquired from the Collegiate School in 1866: the original Gothic building, erected in 1835, was designed by a Sheffield architect named Weightman or Whiteman. The church was bought by the Leicester Education Committee in 1954, but in 1955 was still used for services on Sundays. Cite error: The named reference "hist1958" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. ^ Rimmington, Gerald T. (2007). "Congregationalism and Society in Leicestershire and Rutland 1916-1966" (PDF). Leicestershire Archeological and Historical Society. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  6. ^ a b "CLARENDON PARK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, City of Leicester - 1361393 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk.
  7. ^ "christchurch". www.christchurch-urc.co.uk.
  8. ^ "Clarendon Park Congregational church". CPCC.
  9. ^ a b Goddard, Jane (15 May 2019). "Distinctive Victorian city church was another loss to street scene during decade of demolition". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
  10. ^ "Place of Welcome | Wycliffe United Reformed Church | Leicester". Wycliffe.
  11. ^ Butt, Stephen (2018), Historic England: Leicester: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England, Amberley Publishing Limited, ISBN 9781445683638
  12. ^ Moore, Andre (2008). Where Leicester Has Worshipped. ISBN 978-0-9533628-2-0.
  13. ^ Mapped - University of Leicester Archheology and Ancient History Mapping Faith and Place
  14. ^ a b c d e f Elliott, Malcolm. "Belief and Disbelief in Victorian Leicester" (PDF). Retrieved January 13, 2020. Clearly the Baptists in Leicester were unusually strong...Divisions among the Baptists of Friar Lane had led to the establishment of chapels at Archdeacon Lane (1794) and Dover Street (1823); while Charles Street was built in 1830 and the Pork Pie chapel in Belvoir Street in 1845. Later in the century the Baptists built Victoria Road church...and half a dozen other places of worship in various parts of the town.
  15. ^ a b c Ruddy, Austin J. (6 February 2018). "Renovating a great survivor of the 'metropolis of dissent' Historic 1821 chapel on Leicester's Charles Street has been renovated to a high standard". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  16. ^ a b "Belvoir Street Chapel". City of Leicester. Retrieved January 14, 2020. Affectionately known as the "Pork Pie Chapel", Belvoir Street Chapel was designed by Joseph Hansom, inventor of the horse–drawn cab. Built in 1845 to accommodate a growing Baptist congregation, it was designed for up to 1,500 people and included lecture and schoolrooms. Its circular interior was lit by gas, presenting a "brilliant appearance"...Special trains brought people to its inauguration in 1845
  17. ^ "The Diversity of Leicester A Demographic Profile" (PDF). City of Leicester City Council. 2008. p. 6. Retrieved January 16, 2020. ...there are 37 Churches of England, 15 Roman Catholic, and 69 non-conformist churches, 19 Evangelical, 15 Pentecostal, 13 Baptist, 11 Methodist and 11 United Reform churches. In addition there are also a growing number of black ledchurches. There are 2 Jewish synagogues in the city...Within the city there are 26 Sunni mosques, 2 Shia mosques,22 Hindu temples, 7 Sikh Gurdwaras and 1 Jain temple.
  18. ^ "The List Search Results for Leicester baptist | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk.
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  20. ^ "Buckminster Road Baptist Church Leicester". br-baptist-church.
  21. ^ "Central Baptist Church". Central Baptist Church.
  22. ^ "Central Baptist Church, City of Leicester - 1074071 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk.
  23. ^ https://www.findachurch.co.uk/church/leicester/17654.htm
  24. ^ Home - North Evington Free Church | Leicester
  25. ^ https://www.stoneygatebaptist.org.uk/
  26. ^ Parishes added since 1892: Knighton | British History Online
  27. ^ GENUKI: Belgrave, Leicestershire
  28. ^ Aylestone Baptist Church
  29. ^ "BAPTIST CHAPEL, City of Leicester - 1361414 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk.
  30. ^ "Home". Melbourne Hall Church.
  31. ^ "MELBOURNE BAPTIST CHURCH, Melbourne - 1334632 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk.
  32. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Baptists". The ancient borough: Protestant Nonconformity: A History of the County of Leicester: Volume 4. Victoria County History. 1958. pp. 390–394. Retrieved January 11, 2020. Both General and Particular Baptists founded many other chapels in Leicester and from the 17th to the 19th centuries they formed the largest body of dissenters in the borough. In St. Leonard's parish, the chapel in Abbey Gate was opened as a mission in 1882. There were once four chapels in All Saints' parish: Burgess Street (before 1843, probably closed by 1848), Vine Street (before 1843, sold to the Primitive Methodists in 1861), Soar Lane, a branch of Archdeacon Lane (before 1843, being used by the Quakers in 1848), and the Strict Baptist chapel in St. Peter's Lane, known as the Ebenezer chapel and built in 1803. In St. Mary's parish the former 'Christian' chapel in Newarke Street, built in 1835, was taken over by the Baptists and was destroyed in an air raid in November 1940. The large Victoria Baptist church at the corner of London and University Roads was built in 1867 at a time when the suburban development was proceeding apace. The Robert Hall Memorial chapel was built by the architect Walter Brand in 1901. The chapel in Thorpe Street was founded in 1868, as a branch of the Charles Street chapel, but was never regularly served, and by 1877 had become a Sunday school. The chapel itself had been built for another purpose in 1854. In St. Margaret's parish the oldest chapel is that in Upper Charles Street, built in 1830 and united with the Belvoir Street chapel to form the United Baptist chapel in 1938...Other chapels are those in Melton Street (from about 1860 to about 1870), Navigation Street (also in existence about 1864–70), Trinity chapel in Alfred Street (built by a Mr. Harrison in 1840 and closed about 1890), Erskine Street (built for a congregation from Alfred Street in 1873), the Tabernacle in Belgrave Gate (1869, closed 1921), and Carey Hall in Catherine Street (1897, designed by A. E. Sawday). The Archdeacon Lane Memorial church was opened in Buckminster Road in 1939. A new Baptist church was being built in 1955 for the Stocking Farm Estate. The Evangelical Free Church, Melbourne Hall, was built in 1881 for the ministry of the Revd. F. B. Meyer...Melbourne Hall was designed by Joseph Goddard
  33. ^ "ROBERT HALL MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH, City of Leicester - 1391754 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk.
  34. ^ Zion Baptist Church, Leicester | Protestant Truth Society | The Truth Upheld
  35. ^ Uppingham Road Methodist Church
  36. ^ Carley Church
  37. ^ "Pork Pie Chapel (Leicester) - Colin Crosby Heritage Tours". www.crosbyheritage.co.uk.
  38. ^ "Hansom Hall, City of Leicester - 1361372 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk.
  39. ^ "Church of St John the Baptist, Non Civil Parish - 1074035 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk.
  40. ^ "The ancient borough: Protestant Nonconformity: A History of the County of Leicester: Volume 4". Victoria County History. 1958. pp. 390–394. Retrieved January 11, 2020. The chapel in Harvey Lane, belonging to the Particular Baptists, is especially associated with the names of William Carey (1761–1834), the founder of the Baptist Missionary Society and its first missionary, and of Robert Hall (1764–1831), the noted preacher. The date of the foundation of Harvey Lane chapel is unknown, but it was probably in existence from about 1750, when a sect of Particular Baptists retired from the Friar Lane chapel. (fn. 23) After the erection of the chapel in Belvoir Street, this chapel, never a very large one, was used as a school and a mission chapel, and in 1863 it was rented from the Baptists by a congregation of Independents. It was reopened by the Baptists in the following year. The chapel was destroyed by fire in 1921, having again recently been made into a mission chapel, this time for the Victoria Baptist church. The work there was abandoned in 1932. The chapel had been rebuilt as a Memorial Hall in 1924, (fn. 24) but was sold and in 1955 was being used as offices. William Carey's cottage stands opposite the former chapel.

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