{"id":3041,"date":"2015-03-25T15:21:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=3041"},"modified":"2015-03-25T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:43:07","slug":"protestant-nonconformity-in-swinford-1829-1916","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=3041","title":{"rendered":"Protestant Nonconformity in Swinford, 1829-1916"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swinford is 4 miles south of Lutterworth and 12 miles south-west of Market Harborough.<\/p>\n

Independent or Congregationalist<\/b><\/p>\n

\u2018Independents\u2019 numbered 90 worshippers in the Meeting House Return of 1829. They met in a house.[1]<\/a> The date of construction of their chapel is given in different sources as 1810,[2]<\/a> 1833,[3]<\/a> and 1834\/5. The earliest of thee seems unlikely, as they had no chapel in 1829, and the source is a century later. The other dates are sufficiently close to refer to the same building. The 1851 census of religious worship only gives a construction date of 1834\/5 of a separate building that was exclusively for their worship. In that census return the \u2018Independent or Congregationalist\u2019 chapel (as they were now called) used a building that was capable of providing about 50 free seats, 118 other seats, and room for about 42 standing worshippers. A congregation of about 120 attended the only service on Sunday 30 March 1851, which was in the evening. The average congregation for this service was reported to be 138.[4]<\/a><\/p>\n


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[1]<\/a> ROLLR QS 95\/2\/1\/27<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[2]<\/a> Kelly\u2019s Dir.<\/i> (1908) p.578<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[3]<\/a> White, Hist. Gaz. & Dir. Leics.<\/i> (Sheffield, 1846) p. 417<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[4]<\/a> TNA, HO 129\/408\/32<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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