{"id":3447,"date":"2015-08-15T20:18:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T20:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=3447"},"modified":"2015-08-15T20:18:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T20:18:14","slug":"protestant-nonconformity-in-east-norton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/?page_id=3447","title":{"rendered":"Protestant Nonconformity in East Norton"},"content":{"rendered":"

East Norton is a village in East Leicestershire, about five miles from the town of Billesdon.<\/p>\n

There is little evidence of early nonconformity in the village. No illegal religious meetings were noted in 1669,[1]<\/a> and only one nonconformist was mentioned in the Compton Census of 1676.[2]<\/a> The village was a chapelry of Tugby parish, and vicar Thomas Robinson reported no nonconformists at the visitations of 1706, 1709 and 1712.[3]<\/a> A meeting place was established at the home of a dissenter in 1719, although the denomination is not recorded.[4]<\/a><\/p>\n

Records are clearer for the 19th century, when the only nonconformist denomination with a recorded presence in the village is Wesleyan Methodism.<\/p>\n

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

The earliest source to record Wesleyan Methodists is the 1851 Religious Census. This noted the presence of a chapel built in 1830, with 60 sittings, all of them free. On census day, a congregation of 45 was recorded for one service, held in the evening. Average figures were not given, and there is no evidence of a Sunday School.[5]<\/a><\/p>\n

After 1851, the only other information of Wesleyan Methodists is of a chapel built in 1855, described in 1863 as \u2018small\u2019.[6]<\/a> No other records have yet been identified. The building is still standing in 2015, although no longer in use as a chapel.<\/p>\n

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

[1]<\/a> R.H. Evans, \u2018Nonconformists in Leicestershire in 1669\u2019, Trans LAHS,<\/em> 25 (1949), p. 139<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> A. Whiteman, The Compton Census of 1676: A Critical Edition<\/em> (London, 1986), p. 338<\/p>\n

[3]<\/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. 833<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Leicestershire and Rutland County Record Office (ROLLR), list of religious meeting places in Leicestershire, East Norton, QS 44\/1\/1, rot. 4v.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> 1851 Religious Census of England and Wales, entry for Wesleyan Methodists, East Norton, HO 129\/410\/11.<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> White, Hist. Gaz. & Dir. Leics.<\/em> (Sheffield, 1863) p. 615.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

East Norton is a village in East Leicestershire, about five miles from the town of Billesdon. There is little evidence of early nonconformity in the village. No illegal religious meetings were noted in 1669,[1] and only one nonconformist was mentioned in the Compton Census of 1676.[2] The village was a chapelry of Tugby parish, and […]<\/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-3447","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3447","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=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3448,"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3447\/revisions\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicestershirehistory.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}