{"id":2873,"date":"2015-02-08T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=2873"},"modified":"2015-02-08T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T17:09:11","slug":"protestant-nonconformity-in-saltby","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=2873","title":{"rendered":"Protestant Nonconformity in Saltby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saltby is a village in Leicestershire, north of Melton Mowbray and close to the border with Lincolnshire. <\/span><\/p>\n

Wesleyan Methodism is the only denomination with a recorded presence, but the sources offer only a limited insight into its history within the village. Thus, while the 1851 religious census noted that a Methodist chapel was built in 1809,<\/span>[1]<\/span><\/a> no return was made to the 1829 return of meeting houses.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is evidence of expansion from the 1840s. The chapel was extended in 1845, with a capacity for eighty (seated) and forty (standing) worshippers.<\/span>[2]<\/span><\/a> This would have given it a rather full appearance on the day of the 1851 religious census, with seventy-two worshippers recorded as present in the afternoon service and fifty-two in the evening.<\/span>[3]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Return to <\/strong>Protestant Nonconformity: A-Z<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n


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[1]<\/span><\/a> TNA, HO 129\/418\/97. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[2]<\/span><\/a> White, <\/span>Hist. Gaz. & Dir. Leics.<\/span><\/i> (Sheffield, 1846) p. 256; TNA, HO 129\/418\/97.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[3]<\/span><\/a> TNA, HO 129\/418\/97.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saltby is a village in Leicestershire, north of Melton Mowbray and close to the border with Lincolnshire. Wesleyan Methodism is the only denomination with a recorded presence, but the sources offer only a limited insight into its history within the village. Thus, while the 1851 religious census noted that a Methodist chapel was built in […]<\/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-2873","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2873","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=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2874,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2873\/revisions\/2874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}