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Croydon place of worship categories already existing:
- Addiscombe Baptist Church
- All Saints' Church, Kenley
- All Saints' church, Sanderstead
- All Saints Church, Shirley
- All Saints church, Upper Norwood
- Christ Church, Purley
- Christ Church, West Croydon
- Church of Our Lady of Reparation, Croydon
- Church of St John the Evangelist, Old Coulsdon
- Church of St Michael and All Angels, Croydon
- Church of the Holy Innocents, South Norwood
- Croydon Minster
- Croydon Mosque
- Holy Saviour Church, West Croydon
- Salvation Army Citadel, Croydon
- Speakers Court, Croydon
- SS Constantine and Helen Church, Upper Norwood
- St Alban's Church, South Norwood
- St Andrew's Church, Coulsdon
- St Andrews Church, Croydon
- St Antony's Church, Hamsey Green
- St Augustine's Church, South Croydon
- St Barnabas' Church, Purley
- St Chad's Church, South Norwood
- St Edmund's Church, Riddlesdown
- St Edward King and Confessor, New Addington
- St George's Church, Monks Orchard
- St George's Church, South Croydon
- St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood
- St John's Church, Shirley, London
- St Mark's Church, South Norwood
- St Mark's Church, Woodcote
- St Mary Magdalene, Addiscombe
- St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church, Addington
- St Mary's Church, Sanderstead
- St Oswald's Church, Norbury
- St Paul's United Reformed Church, South Croydon
- St Peter's Church, South Croydon
- St Philip's Church, Norbury
- St Stephen's Church, Thornton Heath
- St Swithun's Church, Purley
- Tamworth Road Baptist Chapel
- West Croydon Baptist Church
- West Croydon United Reformed Church
The western part of Hampshire was not early to embrace Methodism, being part of the so-called "Methodist Wilderness" in this part of southern England.[1] John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, visited Andover in 1759 and 1760 and Romsey later in the 1760s, but experienced success at neither place: he "preached to a few dead stones" at Andover, and described hearers at Romsey as "quiet" and "unaffected" by his preaching.[2] Nevertheless, the denomination entered a growth period from the mid-19th century in the "wilderness",[1] and chapels were founded in various towns and villages. Primitive Methodism, which split from Wesleyan Methodism in the early 19th century, was also strong locally. The Methodist Church of Great Britain, formed by the reuniting of the two denominations and another (the United Methodist Church) in 1932, documented all the chapels it owned as of 1940 in a statistical return published in 1947. Within the boundaries of the present borough of Test Valley at that time, there were 31 chapels representing the denomination's three historic strands: 19 that were originally Primitive Methodist, 10 of Wesleyan origin and two United Methodist chapels. Primitive Methodist chapels could be found at Ampfield, Amport, Andover (East Street), Appleshaw, Barton Stacey, Canada Common, Charlton, Forton (near Longparish), Hurstbourne Tarrant, King's Somborne, Leckford, Littledown, Longstock, Lower Clatford, Newtown (near Awbridge), Upper Clatford, Vernham Dean, Wherwell and Wildhern. There were chapels of Wesleyan origin at Andover (Bridge Street), Clanville, Longparish, Nether Wallop, Nursling, Romsey, Thruxton, Timsbury, West Wellow and Wherwell. King's Somborne and Up Somborne (a hamlet in the same parish) each had a chapel with United Methodist origins. The chapels at Ampfield and Thruxton had already closed and been sold by the time the statistics were published.[3] Some have been demolished, such as the former Primitive Methodists chapel in Andover[1] and Barton Stacey,[2] but most survive—although many have closed and are now in alternative use, often residential as at Longstock,[3] Upper Clatford[4] and both chapels at Wherwell.[5]
Pocock is [6] (A Sketch of the History of Wesleyan-Methodism in some of the Southern Counties of England)
- ^ a b Pocock 1885, p. 9.
- ^ Pocock 1885, pp. 23–24.
- ^ Methodist Church of Great Britain 1947, pp. 238, 240, 241.