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High Flatts Quaker Meeting House

Past President Tim Grass makes an unexpected discovery… Brown signs to tourist destinations can take you down some unexpected turnings. Along the A629 between Penistone and Huddersfield, a brown sign points down a narrow lane to a Friends’ Meeting House. … Continue reading

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Ebenezer Strict and Particular Baptist Chapel, Headingley

Ebenezer Particular Baptist Chapel stands in a garden, set back from Grove Lane which, despite its name, is a busy road connecting the Leeds suburbs of Meanwood and Headingley, screened behind trees and scrub. The trees which screen the chapel … Continue reading

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Unitarians – plain and fancy

Alec Hamilton writes about Arts & Crafts Churches – and chapels! Just because it’s called Arts & Crafts Churches doesn’t mean my book (published by Lund Humphries in 2020) has no chapels in it. Far from it. But a book … Continue reading

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True Jesus Church, Portsmouth – Matt Davis

From Dance Hall to Church: 100 years of 114 North End Avenue, Portsmouth The True Jesus Church is an independent Pentecostal Church founded in Beijing in 1917.  There are more than 1 million adherents in China, and congregations have been … Continue reading

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Bath Street Chapel, Huddersfield

The chapel in Bath Street, Huddersfield, must have the most unusual chapel history in the whole of Britain. Although for part of its history it was home to religious congregations, it was built as the Huddersfield Hall of Science by … Continue reading

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Ainsworth Chapel

Ainsworth Chapel stands within the village of Ainsworth, which lies between Bolton and Bury and north of Radcliffe in the old county of Lancashire, but now within Greater Manchester. It is one of a number of chapels in the area … Continue reading

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Malua Old Chapel

If you want to visit Malua College, you need to fly to New Zealand and then fly a further 1,500 miles to the north east across the Pacific Ocean. After finding Samoa and touching down at Apia airport, take the … Continue reading

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Russian Orthodox Chapel of St Seraphim, Little Walsingham

Past President Tim Grass recommends a trip to an East Anglian village famous for its religious heritage. Visitors to Walsingham normally make for the Anglican and/or Roman Catholic shrines, but it has other church buildings worthy of note. The Methodist … Continue reading

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Religiana

New European religious heritage website launched… From the website: Europe is home to several hundred thousand churches, chapels, mosques, temples, abbeys and other religious sites. For visitors, they are places of cultural, artistic and historical wonder. For local people, they … Continue reading

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Chapel of the Month – November 2018

As we mark the centenary of the end of the First World War this seems a fitting time to highlight the unique Sandham Memorial Chapel with its collection of paintings by Stanley Spencer as our Chapel of the Month. The Chapel … Continue reading

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