Catalogue description ST. PAUL'S CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, WIGAN

This record is held by Archives: Wigan & Leigh

Details of D/NC 9
Reference: D/NC 9
Title: ST. PAUL'S CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, WIGAN
Description:

Minutes, registers, accounts, deeds
Date: 1657-1979
Held by: Archives: Wigan & Leigh, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

St Paul's Congregational Church, Wigan, Greater Manchester
Physical description: 128 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Acc 2156
Subjects:
  • Wigan, Lancashire
  • Wigan, Greater Manchester
Administrative / biographical background:

St. Paul's chapel was opened in 1785; for a few years, it belonged to the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, until it became fully Independent c.1800. Many of the congregation left to form Hope Chapel in 1818, but St. Paul's still prospered - in 1829, it had 1,200 adherents. A new church was opened on the same site in 1903, which was to last until 1980, when the congregation, having recently united with Hope Street and Trinity, moved to a new church, appropriately called Trinity United Reformed Church, off Wigan Lane.
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