{"id":3025,"date":"2015-03-25T14:24:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T14:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=3025"},"modified":"2015-10-04T17:02:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T17:02:55","slug":"protestant-nonconformity-in-hoby","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=3025","title":{"rendered":"Protestant Nonconformity in Hoby, from 1829"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Upper Wreake Methodist Church, in Hoby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hoby is a small village in North East Leicestershire, near Melton Mowbray.<\/p>\n

The 1829 return for meeting houses recorded 12 men and 14 women\u00a0Methodists meeting in the village.[1]<\/a> Later records show that both Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists met here.<\/p>\n

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

Wesleyan Methodists erected a purpose-built chapel in 1832, with room for 152 sittings, 122 of which were free.[2]<\/a> The Religious Census of 1851 recorded a congregation of 50 and 52 at the morning and evening services respectively. The average congregation size was recorded as 50-60 for each. The chapel was also used as a Sunday School, with average attendance given at 20-30.[3]<\/a> After 1851 there is no significant mention of Wesleyan Methodists in the village, apart from an entry in a Leicestershire directory in 1877, which recorded that the chapel was improved from 1874-5.[4]<\/a><\/p>\n

There is a tiny Wesleyan church in the village in 2015, serving villagers across the Upper Wreake area.<\/p>\n

Primitive Methodists<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The only source that records Primitive Methodists in the village is the 1851 religious census. According to this, a meeting house was established in 1836 at the home of a dissenter, apparently with enough room to accommodate 80 worshippers. However, on census day only 18 worshippers were recorded as present, and at one service, held in the afternoon.[5]<\/a><\/p>\n


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[1]<\/a> 1829 Return for Religious Houses, QS 95\/2\/1\/47.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[2]<\/a> White, Hist. Gaz. & Dir. Leics.<\/i> (Sheffield, 1846) p. 437; 1851 Religious Census, entry for Hoby, Wesleyan Methodists, HO 129\/418\/38.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[3]<\/a> 1851 Religious Census, HO 129\/418\/38.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[4]<\/a> White, Hist. Gaz. & Dir. Leics. <\/i>(Sheffield, 1877) p. 240.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[5]<\/a> 1851 Religious Census, entry for Hoby, Primitive Methodists, HO 129\/418\/39<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hoby is a small village in North East Leicestershire, near Melton Mowbray. The 1829 return for meeting houses recorded 12 men and 14 women\u00a0Methodists meeting in the village.[1] Later records show that both Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists met here. Wesleyan Methodists Wesleyan Methodists erected a purpose-built chapel in 1832, with room for 152 sittings, 122 […]<\/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-3025","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3025","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=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3025\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}