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6 unusual facts about Congregational church


Architecture of Ilfracombe

The street facade, built in 1884 to designs by W H Gould, of the former Congregationalist Church is now 'The Lantern' community center, home of the Ilfracombe Farmers' Market.

Bury Park

Church school halls were opened in 1895, Bury Park United Reformed Church Church was built in 1903, and Luton Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd opened a general store at the junction of Dunstable Road and Leagrave Road in 1906.

Congregationalism

The Congregational churches, a family of denominations known for a congregationalist form of governance

Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885

Congregationalist minister Benjamin Waugh, the leader of the SPCC, focusing on the fact that the proposal was defeated by only three votes, redoubled his efforts to lobby support.

William Douglas Mackenzie

(July 16, 1859 – 1936) was an American Congregational theologian, born at Fauresmith, Orange River Colony, South Africa, educated in Edinburgh at Watson's College School (1875) and at the Congregational Theological Hall (1880–82).

William Stearns Davis

His father was Congregational minister William Vail Wilson Davis; his mother Francis Stearns.


Alfred Sturge

On returning to England, he resided for some time with his uncle, Thomas Sturge of Northfleet, and became known in the neighboring town of Dartford, where he assisted the pastor of the Congregational Church.

Bow, Devon

In addition to St Bartholomew's (Church of England), Bow has both a Congregational Church and a Gospel Hall (Open Brethren).

Castlefield Congregational Chapel

The building originally opened as a Congregational chapel in 1858, and was designed by the local architect Edward Walters.

Charles C. Painter

Charles C. Painter (b unknown -1895) was an American abolitionist, Native American advocate and Congregational minister.

Charles Leach

Rev. Charles Leach (1 March 1847 – 24 November 1919) was a Congregationalist Minister and Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Chauncey Northrop Pond

Chauncey Northrop Pond (1841-1920) was a Congregational minister (ordained in 1866) devoted to missionary efforts in China prior to, and around the time of, the Boxer Rebellion.

Chinley

The chapel was established by William Bagshaw as a nonconformist church in 1662, and is still the home of the local Congregational church.

Chipping, Lancashire

The village contains the Anglican Church of St Bartholomew and the Roman Catholic Chapel of St Mary, as well as a Congregational chapel.

Congregational Chapel, Nantwich

A society of Independents was formed in 1780 by Captain Jonathan Scott (1735–1807), who started preaching in a coachmaker's shop on Barker Street with the Reverend William Armitage from Chester.

Harold P. Williams

Williams was a member of the Congregational church, the freemasons, the American Law Institute, the Massachusetts Bar Association, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the Harvard Club of Boston, the Union Club of Boston, the Brae Burn Country Club, and the Grange.

Hawaiian architecture

Traditional Hawaiian architecture experienced its first revolution with the arrival of Congregational missionary Hiram Bingham.

Jeremiah Platt House

Ordained as a minister in the Congregational Church in 1888, Platt left KSAC in 1889 and traveled throughout Kansas establishing Sunday schools.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott

Dr. Abbott graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825, prepared for the ministry at Andover Theological Seminary, and between 1830 and 1844, when he retired from the ministry in the Congregational Church, preached successively at Worcester, Roxbury and Nantucket, all in Massachusetts.

Locally listed buildings in Crawley

The Anglican churches in the Southgate and Gossops Green neighbourhoods (built in 1958 and 1962 respectively), Pound Hill's Roman Catholic church of 1965, with its "striking" triangular design, and the nearby United Reformed Church building (erected in 1955–57 for Congregationalists), are all on the list.

Lyman Abbott

Abbott soon abandoned the legal profession, however, and after studying theology with his uncle, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church in 1860.

Olive Wyon

The daughter of Allan Wyon, Chief Engraver of Seals to Queen Victoria, she had a brother, the Rev. Allan G. Wyon, the sculptor and medalist, and two sisters, one an Anglican Deaconess and the other a Congregational Minister.

Rachel Field

Field was a descendant of David Dudley Field, the early New England clergyman and writer.

Samuel Oughton

Originally associated with James Sherman's Independent Congregational Surrey Chapel, and from time to time invited back by Sherman, he was closely associated with the Baptists in Jamaica, who were largely organised along Congregational lines and among the predominantly African-Caribbean population, following their founding by George Lisle, a former slave from America.

Thomas Goodwin

Worried by his bishop, who was a zealous adherent of William Laud, he resigned all his preferments and left the university in 1634; he became a Congregationalist.

United and uniting churches

United States: United Church of Christ, the 1957 union of the two previously united churches:Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.

William Wroth

His new chapel in Llanvaches was organised "according to the New England pattern" - that is, Congregational - and was completed that same year with the help of the fellow leading Dissenter, Henry Jessey.


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Abraham Pierson

He was born in Southampton, Long Island, where his father, the Rev. Abraham Pierson (Sr.), was the pastor of the Puritan (Congregational) church.

Albert Rhys Williams

After that Williams returned to his main profession as a minister of the Maverick Square Congregational Church in East Boston (1908–14).

Almont, Michigan

James Thompson, who donated the town clock that is located in the steeple of the First Congregational Church, is credited with proposing the name "Almont" in 1846 to honor the Mexican general, Juan Almonte.

Barton Chapel

The Congregational church in Robbins was established in 1885 as the Pilgrim Church.

Bethlehem, Connecticut

Joseph Bellamy (1719–1790), an influential Congregationalist theologian in the 18th century, was pastor at the Congregational church in town for 50 years, until his death.

Clarke Street Meeting House

The congregation later left the building and merged with Newport's First Congregational Church to become United Congregational Church to which the building was sold in 1835.

Edward C. Kilbourne

He also supported the YMCA after the original backer Dexter Horton had withdrawn his support and was involved with the Plymouth Congregational Church of Seattle.

Fylfot

A similar usage is to be found in the Central Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

George Punchard

From 1830 until 1844, he was pastor of a Congregational church in Plymouth, New Hampshire.

Hannah Connell Barker

She was also active in supporting Boulder’s Congregational Church and Columbia Cemetery and was a member of Boulder's Colorado Chautauqua Association.

Hounsom Memorial Church

Its name commemorates William Allin Hounsom, a local man and longstanding member of the Congregational church in central Hove, who had wide-ranging business interests and landholdings across Sussex.

Howell Elvet Lewis

Elfed was ordained in 1880 and was made pastor of St John’s English Congregational Church in Buckley, Flintshire, where the local Secondary School Elfed High School is named after him.

Joseph Coles Kirby

From 1871 to 1877, Kirby was the pastor of the Congregational Church in Woollahra, New South Wales.

Ohlange High School

In Brooklyn he met the new chair of the committee S. Parkes Cadman who was pastor of the Central Congregational church in Brooklyn.

Organ recital

While world-famous organist Frederick Swann was in residence at First Congregational Church in Los Angeles between 1998 and 2001, where he supervised the improvement of the organ to rival that of his former church, the Crystal Cathedral, to become the largest church organ in the world (with over 20,000 pipes), he instituted a music festival called "Organ Alive!" that featured organ recitals and concerts, collaborating with many renowned musicians to revive Los Angeles' organ music culture.

Peter Lesley

He then accepted the pastorate of the Congregational church at Milton, Massachusetts.

Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust

When the tramway closed in 1971 the tram body was given to the Zion Congregational Church in Sebastopol, Victoria.

Roxbury Conglomerate

The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote a poem called "The Dorchester Giant" in 1830, and referred to this special kind of stone, "Roxbury puddingstone", also quarried in Dorchester, which was used to build churches in the Boston area, most notably the Central Congregational Church (later called the Church of the Covenant) in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.

William Greenhill

In 1644 he was present at the formation of Stepney Meeting House, the congregational church in Stepney, and was appointed first pastor.

William T. R. Fox

Fox and his wife were residents of the Riverside neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut for four decades and he was active in the First Congregational Church of Old Greenwich.

William Watson Andrews

He was born at Windham, Windham Co., Conn., graduated in 1831 at Yale, and in 1834 was ordained and installed pastor of the Congregational church at Kent, Conn. He early accepted the tenet of the Catholic Apostolic Church, commonly spoken of as the "Irvingites," and in 1849, having given up his charge at Kent.