A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10, Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1972.
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Kathleen Morgan, Brian S Smith, 'Frampton on Severn: Nonconformity', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10, Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds, ed. C R Elrington, N M Herbert, R B Pugh( London, 1972), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol10/pp154-155 [accessed 22 December 2024].
Kathleen Morgan, Brian S Smith, 'Frampton on Severn: Nonconformity', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10, Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds. Edited by C R Elrington, N M Herbert, R B Pugh( London, 1972), British History Online, accessed December 22, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol10/pp154-155.
Kathleen Morgan, Brian S Smith. "Frampton on Severn: Nonconformity". A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10, Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds. Ed. C R Elrington, N M Herbert, R B Pugh(London, 1972), , British History Online. Web. 22 December 2024. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol10/pp154-155.
NONCONFORMITY.
The Congregational church west of the green originated in or before 1756 when a group of dissenters registered a house for use as a meeting-house. The same group registered another house in 1757 as an Independent meeting, and in 1776 they registered a newly built chapel (fn. 1) which had been opened in that year by Rowland Hill, the evangelical preacher. A burial ground by the chapel was in use 1778-99. In 1801 the chapel got its first settled minister, (fn. 2) whose successor in 1851 claimed a congregation of 200. (fn. 3) There was a resident minister until the end of the 19th century; (fn. 4) in 1968 the church was served by lay preachers and a retired minister. The building, of brick with a double-ridged roof, was given pointed windows apparently in 1849, when the similarly windowed schoolroom was built. (fn. 5)
A meeting-place at Fromebridge Mills was registered in 1820, and a dwelling-house in the parish in 1826. (fn. 6) A meeting-house with a congregation of 50 in 1851 had been in use four or five years. (fn. 7) No other reference to those meetings has been found.