Devon

…to hold up to 1,800. There was also a Sunday School for nearly a thousand children. It was largely rebuilt in the late nineteenth century as the Henry Francis Lyte…

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London (South)

…barely known outside some Christian circles. Within weeks, all that had changed. Fervent and eloquent, crowds flocked to his services and he was offered the pastorate. With every available seat…

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Bristol

…was born at Stapleton in the Fishponds district.  She was a precocious child and learned classics, maths and languages from her father, the master of the local free school.  With…

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Kent

…Bishop of Worcester. In 961 he became Archbishop and travelled to Rome to be consecrated. He helped to integrate the Danes into the political life of the country and to…

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Cornwall

…next fourteen years, St Mary’s became the centre of evangelical awakening in Cornwall and it was said of Truro that, with most citizens attending Sunday services, You might fire a…

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Nottinghamshire

…Street to the chapel for Sunday services. Their unwashed presence did not meet with the approval of the church dignitaries and it was this that prompted Booth to move to…

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Buckinghamshire

…meet to compose hymns for the Sunday services, later published as the Olney Hymns.  Altogether 280 hymns are attributed to Newton and 62 to Cowper.  The finest of these have…

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Suffolk

…figure. In 1630, his puritan views led him to seek freedom in the New World and he became founder of Boston and first governor of Massachusetts. Winthrop was married four…

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Cambridgeshire

…Spurgeon (1834-1892) began his ministry. He was a teenage Sunday School teacher, but such was his eloquence that many of the adults in the church deserted the main services and…

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Essex

…down Artillery Street to a Primitive Methodist chapel for shelter. There were few present and the local lay preacher considered cancelling the service. He decided to continue and preached on…

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