{"id":3337,"date":"2015-08-03T22:57:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T22:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=3337"},"modified":"2015-08-03T22:57:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T22:57:20","slug":"protestant-nonconformity-in-glen-parva-and-south-wigston","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=3337","title":{"rendered":"Protestant Nonconformity in Glen Parva and South Wigston"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Wigston is a late Victorian \u2018suburban village\u2019, created in the 1880s from bare fields alongside a railway junction 4 miles south of Leicester, by brick manufacturer and builder Orson Wright. It forms part of the civil parish of Glen Parva and South Wigston.<\/p>\n

All the places of worship are in South Wigston village, and include St Thomas\u2019s Anglican church, built in 1893 to replace a mission hall of 1886.<\/p>\n

A Congregational chapel was built in 1886 on Blaby Road, with 400 sittings.[1]<\/a> A Wesleyan chapel also stood on Blaby Road by 1895, and there was a \u2018Christian meeting house\u2019 in Canal Street.[2]<\/a> By 1916 a further Methodist chapel had been added, on Countesthorpe Road.[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2015 there are Congregational, Methodist and United Reformed Churches in South Wigston.<\/p>\n

Notes<\/span><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Kelly\u2019s Dir. Leics<\/em> (1916), p. 85<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Kelly\u2019s Dir. Leics<\/em> (1895), p. 76<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Kelly\u2019s Dir. Leics<\/em> (1916), p. 85<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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