Tidenham including Lancaut: Nonconformity

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, 'Tidenham including Lancaut: 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/p78 [accessed 22 December 2024].

Kathleen Morgan, Brian S Smith, 'Tidenham including Lancaut: 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/p78.

Kathleen Morgan, Brian S Smith. "Tidenham including Lancaut: 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/p78.

NONCONFORMITY.

Methodists registered a house at Tidenham in 1820, (fn. 1) and a Wesleyan chapel built at Boughspring in 1836 (fn. 2) was registered by a Monmouth minister in 1844. (fn. 3) The chapel had a congregation of c. 45 in 1851. (fn. 4) The Wesleyan community died out in the early years of the 20th century, and the chapel, which was used for a time in the 1920s as a church boys' club, was demolished in the 1960s and a house built on the site. (fn. 5) A reading room built at Woodcroft in 1843 was being used for worship by Baptists and others under a Chepstow minister in 1851, when it claimed a congregation of 70-90. (fn. 6) It was presumably the Independent reading room recorded in the parish until 1870. (fn. 7) A house at Beachley was registered by an unidentified dissenting group in 1831. (fn. 8)

Footnotes

  • 1. Hockaday Abs. ccclxxv.
  • 2. H.O. 129/576/2/10/23; G.D.R. Tidenham tithe award.
  • 3. Hockaday Abs. ccclxxv.
  • 4. H.O. 129/576/2/10/23.
  • 5. W.I. hist. of Tidenham, 17; local information.
  • 6. Hockaday Abs. ccclxxv, 1844; H.O. 129/576/2/10/24.
  • 7. Kelly's Dir. Glos. (1856 and later edns.).
  • 8. Hockaday Abs. cxv.