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Sileby Primitive Methodist Church
Sileby Primitive Methodist Church is a Methodist church in Sileby, Leicestershire. History The first chapel built by the Primitive Methodists was opened by 1818. This was soon outgrown and a new church was opened on King Street in 1834. The current church was designed by the architect James Kerridge. Construction started in 1866 and the building opened for worship on 12 May 1867 In 1931 the school room was built on Swan Street. In 1969, Sileby Wesleyan Methodist Church closed and the congregation joined the congregation at King Street. The church underwent redevelopment in 2010. Organ A pipe organ by Hardy and Son of Stockport was installed and opened on 22 February 1900 by James Dann, Assistant Organist at Peterborough Cathedral. The organ is no longer present References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sileby Sileby Sileby Sileby is a former industrial village and civil parish in the Soar Valley in Leicestershire, between Leicester and Loughborough. Nearby villages include Barrow upon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sileby
Sileby is a former industrial village and civil parish in the Soar Valley in Leicestershire, between Leicester and Loughborough. Nearby villages include Barrow upon Soar, Mountsorrel, Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake, Seagrave and Cossington. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 7,835. The origins of the village date back to around 840 AD when the area was settled by the Danes - Leicestershire forming part of the Danelaw along with other counties in the vicinity. The name Sileby may in fact come from the Danish name 'Sighulf'. The village lies at the bottom of an ancient valley created by the nearby River Soar, meaning that surrounding farmland is particularly prone to flooding during persistent or heavy rain. History Traditionally, Sileby was split into two wards, separated by the brook that flows through the middle of the village. These are St Mary's to the north and St Gregory's to the south. Recently however, due to Boundary Commission changes, a third ward of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primitive Methodist
The Primitive Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination with the holiness movement. It began in England in the early 19th century, with the influence of American evangelist Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834). In the United States, the Primitive Methodist Church had eighty-three parishes and 8,487 members in 1996. In Great Britain and Australia, the Primitive Methodist Church merged with other denominations, to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain in 1932 and the Methodist Church of Australasia in 1901. The latter subsequently merged into the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977. Beliefs The Primitive Methodist Church recognizes the dominical sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion, as well as other rites, such as Holy Matrimony. History United Kingdom The leaders who originated Primitive Methodism were attempting to restore a spirit of revivalism as they felt was found in the ministry of John Wesley, with no intent of forming a new church. The leaders were Hugh Bourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Kerridge
James Kerridge (4 August 1830 – 28 March 1911) was a British architect based in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Personal life James Kerridge was born on 4 August 1830 in Bungay, Suffolk, the son of William Kerridge (b. 1806), a farmer, and Hannah Webster (b. 1808), and was baptised aged four on 28 July 1835 in Bungay. He trained as an architect under C. Weekes of Carmarthen. He married first Mary Ann Frances Watford (1836–1857) on 23 July 1854 in St Clement Danes. They had two children: *Revd. William Kerridge (1855–1928) *Catherine Eliza Kerridge (b. 1857) Mary Ann Frances died in Wisbech and was buried on 20 February 1857. He married secondly Mary Hill (1839-1914) on 14 December 1858 in Wisbech. They had the following children: *James Kerridge (1860 – 12 April 1877) *Mary Ann Frances Kerridge (1862–1938) *John H Kerridge (1864–1865) *Richard Cobden Kerridge (1866 – 6 April 1877) *Hannah Elizabeth Kerridge (b. 1868) *John Mason Kerridge (1870 – 1878) *Francis Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warwickshire to the south-west, Staffordshire to the west, and Derbyshire to the north-west. The border with most of Warwickshire is Watling Street, the modern A5 road (Great Britain), A5 road. Leicestershire takes its name from the city of Leicester located at its centre and unitary authority, administered separately from the rest of the county. The ceremonial county – the non-metropolitan county plus the city of Leicester – has a total population of just over 1 million (2016 estimate), more than half of which lives in the Leicester Urban Area. History Leicestershire was recorded in the Domesday Book in four wapentakes: Guthlaxton, Framland, Goscote, and Gartree (hundred), Gartree. These later became hundred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sileby Wesleyan Methodist Church
Sileby Wesleyan Methodist Church is a former Methodist church in Sileby, Leicestershire. History Methodism in Sileby started around 1791 when a cottage was purchased for around £70 and converted into a chapel. In 1881 the congregation was in need of a new building. This was erected in High Street at a cost of £2,000 () and presented to the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion at Sileby by Thomas Caloe of Mill Villa on 3 December 1884. In 1969 the congregation decided to close the church and moved to join Sileby Primitive Methodist Church on King Street. Organ A pipe organ by Taylor of Leicester was installed in 1885. On closure of the chapel, the organ was moved to All Saints’ Church, Cossington and then in 2012 exported to Italy. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sileby Sileby Sileby Sileby is a former industrial village and civil parish in the Soar Valley in Leicestershire, between Leicester and Loughborough. Nearby villages include Barrow upon Soar, Mountsorrel, Ratcliffe-on-the-W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peterborough Cathedral
Peterborough Cathedral, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew – also known as Saint Peter's Cathedral in the United Kingdom – is the seat of the Church of England, Anglican Bishop of Peterborough, dedicated to Saint Peter, Paul of Tarsus, Saint Paul and Saint Andrew, whose statues look down from the three high gables of the famous West Front. Although it was founded in the History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon period, its architecture is mainly Norman architecture, Norman, following a rebuilding in the 12th century. With Durham Cathedral, Durham and Ely Cathedral, Ely cathedrals, it is one of the most important 12th-century buildings in England to have remained largely intact, despite extensions and restoration. Peterborough Cathedral is known for its imposing English Gothic architecture, Early English Gothic West Front (façade) which, with its three enormous arches, is without architectural precedent and with no direct successor. The appeara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Methodist Churches In Leicestershire
Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's brother Charles Wesley were also significant early leaders in the movement. They were named ''Methodists'' for "the methodical way in which they carried out their Christian faith". Methodism originated as a Christian revival, revival movement within the 18th-century Church of England and became a separate denomination after Wesley's death. The movement spread throughout the British Empire, the United States, and beyond because of vigorous Christian mission, missionary work, today claiming approximately 80 million adherents worldwide. Wesleyan theology, which is upheld by the Methodist churches, focuses on sanctification and the transforming effect of faith on the character of a Christians, Christian. Distinguishing doctrines include th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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