Yorkley Slade Chapel - Brief history and records (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Monday, November 03, 2008, 20:39 (5863 days ago) @ banalban

In the later 19th century Bible Christians opened chapels in five more places within the Forest. At Yorkley Slade, where the cause was revived by Henry Jones in 1858, a chapel was built in 1862. (fn. 90) It became part of the Methodist Church in 1932 and a large schoolroom was added to it in 1955. (fn. 91) It closed in 1992.

From: 'Forest of Dean: Protestant nonconformity', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 396-404. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23273. Date accessed: 04 November 2008.

location
There was a Baptist chapel located in Beech Road, lower Yorkley, there was a Bible Christians chapel at Yorkley

Yorkley Slade Methodist Church, Forest of Dean

GB/NNAF/C38462 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O86898)
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Historical information
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Scope 1862-1988: minutes, pulpit notice books, accounts, members roll, sunday school records, church society records, records relating to building
Repository Gloucestershire Archives
Record Reference D2598/28 link to online catalogue
NRA catalogue reference NRA 16617 Dean Circuit

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