{"id":2595,"date":"2015-02-05T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=2595"},"modified":"2016-12-27T00:14:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T00:14:35","slug":"protestant-nonconformity-in-ab-kettleby-and-holwell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=2595","title":{"rendered":"Protestant Nonconformity in Ab Kettleby and Holwell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ab Kettleby and Holwell are neighbouring rural villages in north Leicestershire, twenty miles north-east of Leicester and around four miles north of Melton Mowbray.<\/p>\n

Ab Kettleby<\/span><\/h2>\n

Early nonconformity<\/b><\/p>\n

Four nonconformists were noted in 1676.[1]<\/a> In 1706, two female Presbyterians were noted as living in the village, and by 1709 there were three \u2018Anabaptists\u2019 and one Presbyterian, although there was no meeting in the village.[2]<\/a> No response was made to the Meeting House return of 1829.<\/p>\n

Wesleyan Methodists<\/b><\/p>\n

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Ab Kettleby Wesleyan chapel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Wesleyan chapel was built in 1843, but no return was made to the 1851 religious census.[3]<\/a>\u00a0The chapel was enlarged in 1877, according to a tablet on the building, and an adjacent Sunday school was built in 1898.<\/p>\n

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Ab Kettleby Wesleyan chapel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Holwell<\/span><\/h2>\n

Mary Moulton\u2019s house was registered as a meeting house in 1733.[4]<\/a><\/p>\n

Wesleyan Methodists<\/b> A Wesleyan chapel was built in 1818,[5]<\/a> and rebuilt in 1877.[6]<\/a> In 1851, there was just one service on Sundays which alternated between afternoon and evening. On 30 March that year, the service was in the evening and attracted 43 worshippers. The chapel also had a Sunday school which met in the morning and afternoon; on 30 March 1851 it was attended by 19 people.[7]<\/a><\/p>\n

Return to <\/b>Protestant Nonconformity: A-Z<\/span><\/b><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n


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[1]<\/span><\/a> A. Whiteman, <\/span>The Compton Census of 1676<\/span><\/i> (1986), 330<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
[2]<\/span><\/a> J. Broad (ed.), <\/span>Bishop Wake’s summary of visitation returns from the diocese of Lincoln, 1706-1715. Part 2, Outside Lincolnshire (Huntingdonshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Buckinghamshire)<\/span><\/i> (Oxford, 2012), 750<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
[3]<\/span><\/a> W. White, <\/span>Hist., Gaz. and Dir. of Leics. and Rutland<\/span><\/i> (Sheffield, 1846), 221<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
[4]<\/span><\/a> ROLLR, QS 44\/1\/1, rot. 2<\/span><\/div>\n
[5]<\/span><\/a> W. White, <\/span>Hist., Gaz. and Dir. of Leics. and Rutland<\/span><\/i> (Sheffield, 1863), 326<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
[6]<\/span><\/a>Kelly\u2019s Dir. of Leics<\/span><\/i>. (1881), 475<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
[7]<\/span><\/a> TNA, HO 129\/418\/82<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ab Kettleby and Holwell are neighbouring rural villages in north Leicestershire, twenty miles north-east of Leicester and around four miles north of Melton Mowbray. Ab Kettleby Early nonconformity Four nonconformists were noted in 1676.[1] In 1706, two female Presbyterians were noted as living in the village, and by 1709 there were three \u2018Anabaptists\u2019 and one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2595","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2595\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}