Old Meeting House, Dudley
Old Meeting House, probably the oldest "place of worship" building in Dudley, West Midlands, England.
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The Baylies's were members of the Old Meeting House, Dudley. The brothers Robert and Samuel with their sister Ann having prospered in life and having some idea of the benefits which might accrue to the rising generation, endowed and founded the school bearing their name in Pease Lane, now Tower Street, in 1832. From their tastes, which were mainly educative, we infer from many incidents, that they were of a literary nature, and somewhat in advance of the age.
As all education seemed to be incomplete without a Catechism, the Baylies's being Nonconformist chose and included in their scheme the Assembly's Shorter Catechism as being least Anglican.
The origin of the 'Protestant Dissenters' in Dudley dated from the ejection of the 2000 ministers occasioned by the Act of Nonconformity, which came into force on St Bartholomew's Day, August 24th, 1662. ... In the Birmingham 'Church and King Riots', June 1791, ... many of the chapels round about were dismantled, the Dudley Old Meeting House being among the number.
As stated before, the Baylies's possibly were of this Nonconforming body. www.flickr.com/photos/brianac37/5664749394/in/photostream/
www.jpb.co.uk/booksoc/1898history.htm
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The Old Meeting Congregation legally known as ‘Protestant Dissenters’ were originally Presbyterians but are now Unitarians. And can be traced back to the year 1662, when something like 2,000 Ministers throughout England were ejected from the Church of England, as a result of the Act of Uniformity. The first Chapel was erected in 1702, and was destroyed by rioters in 1715. It was rebuilt in 1717. The transition from old Presbyterianism to Unitarianism was apparently brough about by reason of the trust deed being one of the open kind ‘for the worship of God’ and the progressive change of thought. The Rev. George Eyre Evans (author of Vestiges of Protestant Dissent) in his coming work on ‘Midland Churches’ being the history of all the congregations now on the roll of the Midland Christian Union, and in which this congregation is included, has devoted special attention to the history of this Meeting House. It will contain biographies of the ministers with numerous facsimile autographs, particulars of the buildings, of the now extinct but important Dudley Double Lecture of Baylies’ and Parsons’ Schools, extracted from early prints and government documents, of the Inhedge Burial Ground and the Dudley Book Society. Mr. Eyre Evans having submitted to me his valuable manuscript for perusal and revision, it would be an ungracious act on my part to narrate here what he has written and intends for publication. His work will probably be in the hands of the public during the current year (1899).
Old Meeting House, Dudley
Old Meeting House, probably the oldest "place of worship" building in Dudley, West Midlands, England.
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The Baylies's were members of the Old Meeting House, Dudley. The brothers Robert and Samuel with their sister Ann having prospered in life and having some idea of the benefits which might accrue to the rising generation, endowed and founded the school bearing their name in Pease Lane, now Tower Street, in 1832. From their tastes, which were mainly educative, we infer from many incidents, that they were of a literary nature, and somewhat in advance of the age.
As all education seemed to be incomplete without a Catechism, the Baylies's being Nonconformist chose and included in their scheme the Assembly's Shorter Catechism as being least Anglican.
The origin of the 'Protestant Dissenters' in Dudley dated from the ejection of the 2000 ministers occasioned by the Act of Nonconformity, which came into force on St Bartholomew's Day, August 24th, 1662. ... In the Birmingham 'Church and King Riots', June 1791, ... many of the chapels round about were dismantled, the Dudley Old Meeting House being among the number.
As stated before, the Baylies's possibly were of this Nonconforming body. www.flickr.com/photos/brianac37/5664749394/in/photostream/
www.jpb.co.uk/booksoc/1898history.htm
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The Old Meeting Congregation legally known as ‘Protestant Dissenters’ were originally Presbyterians but are now Unitarians. And can be traced back to the year 1662, when something like 2,000 Ministers throughout England were ejected from the Church of England, as a result of the Act of Uniformity. The first Chapel was erected in 1702, and was destroyed by rioters in 1715. It was rebuilt in 1717. The transition from old Presbyterianism to Unitarianism was apparently brough about by reason of the trust deed being one of the open kind ‘for the worship of God’ and the progressive change of thought. The Rev. George Eyre Evans (author of Vestiges of Protestant Dissent) in his coming work on ‘Midland Churches’ being the history of all the congregations now on the roll of the Midland Christian Union, and in which this congregation is included, has devoted special attention to the history of this Meeting House. It will contain biographies of the ministers with numerous facsimile autographs, particulars of the buildings, of the now extinct but important Dudley Double Lecture of Baylies’ and Parsons’ Schools, extracted from early prints and government documents, of the Inhedge Burial Ground and the Dudley Book Society. Mr. Eyre Evans having submitted to me his valuable manuscript for perusal and revision, it would be an ungracious act on my part to narrate here what he has written and intends for publication. His work will probably be in the hands of the public during the current year (1899).