{"id":3267,"date":"2015-07-28T12:48:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T12:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=3267"},"modified":"2016-05-27T13:03:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T13:03:59","slug":"protestant-nonconformity-in-stapleton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=3267","title":{"rendered":"Protestant Nonconformity in Stapleton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stapleton is a village in south-west Leicestershire, in the parish of Barwell and near the town of Hinckley.<\/p>\n

Five nonconformists were noted here in 1676, four of whom were women, but their denomination is not recorded.[1]<\/a> Two families of \u2018Anabaptists\u2019 lived here in 1706.[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

There seems to have been very little nonconformity in the later 18th and early 19th centuries.<\/p>\n

Primitive Methodists<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

The first record of Methodism comes from White\u2019s Directory of 1863, which recorded the presence of a Methodist chapel.[3]<\/a> His later directory in 1877 is the first to record the presence of a Primitive Methodist chapel, although it was likely to have been the same one.[4]<\/a> Neither source mentions when the chapel was built. The most informative source is that of Kelly\u2019s Directory of 1908, which records the presence of a Primitive Methodists chapel built in 1852, with 100 sittings.[5]<\/a>\u00a0It was rebuilt in 1905.<\/p>\n

Stapleton Methodist Church remains active in 2016, continuing to worship in the 1905 chapel.<\/p>\n

\"Stapleton<\/a>
Stapleton Methodist Church (built 1905)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

[1]<\/a> A. Whiteman, The Compton Census of 1676: A Critical Edition<\/em> (London, 1986), p. 331<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> J. Broad (ed.), Bishop Wake’s summary of visitation returns from the diocese of Lincoln, 1706-1715. Part 2, Outside Lincolnshire (Huntingdonshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Buckinghamshire)<\/em> (Oxford, 2012), p. 870<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> White, Hist. Gaz. & Dir. Leics.<\/em> (Sheffield, 1863) p. 649.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> White, Hist. Gaz. & Dir. Leics. <\/em>(Sheffield, 1877) p. 604<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Kelly\u2019s Dir.<\/em> (1908) p. 572.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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