Catalogue description Shillington Congregational Church

This record is held by Bedfordshire Archives

Details of X 846
Reference: X 846
Title: Shillington Congregational Church
Note: "
Date: 1852-1993
Held by: Bedfordshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Shillington Congregational Church, Bedford, Bedfordshire

Immediate source of acquisition:

The archives of Shillington Congregational Church, deposited in November 1995 by Mrs. Joan M. Wilson, Minute Secretary, 66 High Road, Shillington, SG5 3LL

 

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Publication note:

For a history of the church, see The Shillington Congregational Church 1825-1950 by Herbert W.Cooper (1950).

Subjects:
  • Shillington, Bedfordshire
Administrative / biographical background:

The congregation was established in 1825 and a permanent chapel opened on 25 November 1840. According to Cooper "the account of the early formation of the Church at Shillington up to 1852 has been lost for all time through the shameful mutilation of the Early Church Records by some person unknown".

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