{"id":3445,"date":"2015-08-15T20:17:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T20:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=3445"},"modified":"2015-08-15T20:17:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T20:17:19","slug":"protestant-nonconformity-in-grimston","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=3445","title":{"rendered":"Protestant Nonconformity in Grimston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grimston is a village in north-east Leicestershire, north-west of Melton Mowbray, but in ecclesiastical terms it was a detached chapelry of Rothley, in Charnwood Forest.<\/p>\n

No dissent is recorded in the 17th century,[1]<\/a> and there still appears not to be any in 1706.[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

William Gee\u2019s house was licensed for Protestant worship in 1768, although there is no record of the denomination.[3]<\/a> John Marston\u2019s house was similarly registered in 1833,[4]<\/a> with other sources suggesting he was a Wesleyan.<\/p>\n

Wesleyan Methodism<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Wesleyan Methodists are first recorded on the 1829 Return of Religious Meeting Places, which counted them at ten.[5]<\/a> The 1851 Religious Census recorded the existence of a chapel built in 1839, containing 44 sittings, 20 of them free. On census day, a congregation of 70 was recorded for one service, held in the evening. This was unusually high, however, as average attendance was marked at just 20.[6]<\/a><\/p>\n

After 1851, the only other information about Wesleyan Methodists is provided by Kelly\u2019s Directory of 1895, which recorded that a chapel had been built (or rebuilt) in 1892.[7]<\/a> This stood at the extreme north-eastern end of the village. The building, now converted to a house, is still there today (2015).<\/p>\n

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

[1]<\/a> R.H. Evans, \u2018Nonconformists in Leicestershire in 1669\u2019, Trans LAHS<\/em> 25, (1949); A. Whiteman, The Compton Census of 1676: A Critical Edition<\/em> (London, 1986), p. 372<\/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. 890<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Leicestershire and Rutland County Record Office (ROLLR), list of religious meeting places, Grimston, QS 44\/2\/66 and 182.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Ibid., QS 44\/1\/2.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> 1829 Return of Religious Meeting Places, entry for Grimston, Wesleyan Methodists, QS 95\/2\/1\/46.<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> 1851 Census of England and Wales, entry for Grimston, Wesleyan Methodists, HO 129\/418\/47.<\/p>\n

[7]<\/a> Kelly\u2019s Dir.<\/em> (1895) p. 78.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grimston is a village in north-east Leicestershire, north-west of Melton Mowbray, but in ecclesiastical terms it was a detached chapelry of Rothley, in Charnwood Forest. No dissent is recorded in the 17th century,[1] and there still appears not to be any in 1706.[2] William Gee\u2019s house was licensed for Protestant worship in 1768, although there […]<\/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-3445","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3445","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=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3445\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}