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Title: Lydgate Chapel, Todmorden, 1900s - TAL00460
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Lydgate Chapel, Todmorden, 1900s - TAL00460
Description
The Lydgate Church, Todmorden, was formed from members of the Lineholme Church, in 1859. The new endeavour numbered some fifty Todmorden people. Beginning in a cottage, they moved to Newgate Bottom, where they rented the top room of a disused mill. Here, suffering from heat in summer and cold in the winter, they resolved that they would not "winter another summer" under such conditions. They moved in 1860 to a room at Arch View, rented from one of their number for "£10 per annum, to include gas."
Here they won their first converts with the baptism of five persons in a neighbouring stream. In 1861 they invited the Rev. James Dearden to their ministry, which he accepted and maintained for twenty-two years. On Whit Tuesday, 1865, they commenced chapel building, with members willingly digging out of the soil for the foundations. Mr. Dearden resigned in 1883, and the Rev. W. L. Stevenson was appointed his successor. He continued until 1906, and was succeeded by the Rev. W. T. Garling, in 1907.
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Here they won their first converts with the baptism of five persons in a neighbouring stream. In 1861 they invited the Rev. James Dearden to their ministry, which he accepted and maintained for twenty-two years. On Whit Tuesday, 1865, they commenced chapel building, with members willingly digging out of the soil for the foundations. Mr. Dearden resigned in 1883, and the Rev. W. L. Stevenson was appointed his successor. He continued until 1906, and was succeeded by the Rev. W. T. Garling, in 1907.
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Source
Todmorden Antiquarian Society
Date
1900
Rights
PHDA - Todmorden Antiquarian Society
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
TAL00460.tif
Citation
“Lydgate Chapel, Todmorden, 1900s - TAL00460,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/27390.
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