Stringston: Nonconformity

A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1992.

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A P Baggs, M C Siraut, 'Stringston: Nonconformity', in A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes), ed. R W Dunning, C R Elrington( London, 1992), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol6/p177 [accessed 20 November 2024].

A P Baggs, M C Siraut, 'Stringston: Nonconformity', in A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes). Edited by R W Dunning, C R Elrington( London, 1992), British History Online, accessed November 20, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol6/p177.

A P Baggs, M C Siraut. "Stringston: Nonconformity". A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes). Ed. R W Dunning, C R Elrington(London, 1992), , British History Online. Web. 20 November 2024. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol6/p177.

NONCONFORMITY.

In 1669 there was a conventicle under Thomas Safford. (fn. 1) A house was licensed for Methodists in 1754 (fn. 2) and another, called Shutt's, for Independents in 1786. (fn. 3) The last was replaced by a chapel, apparently converted from a cottage, in 1801. (fn. 4) The chapel was probably still in use in 1865 but had become a dwelling by 1886. (fn. 5)

Footnotes

  • 1. Orig. Rec. of Early Nonconf. ed. G. L. Turner, i. 9.
  • 2. S.R.O., Q/RR.
  • 3. Ibid. D/D/Rm 1.
  • 4. Ibid. One in a row of cottages, in 1986 nos. 2 and 3 Stringston.
  • 5. Ibid. DD/AH 12/7; not marked as a chapel on O.S. Map 6", Som. XXXVII. SW. (1886 edn.).