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The Castle Meeting House, near the bottom of Castlegate, was built in 1689, when its founders, adhering to the doctrine of John Calvin, separated from the Socinians, and formed themselves into an Independent Church of "Comgregationalists". The chapel has been several times altered and enlarged, and will seat about 1,200 persons. In 1826, it was thoroughly repaired, and enriched with a good organ. The building stands in the parish of St Nicholas, but the large burial ground in front is in St Peter's. It has a large Sunday School, and the congregation subscribe to a fund for the relief of the poor. The Rev. Samuel McAll is the minister.
Sion Chapel, Fletcher Gate, was built in 1819, for a sect of Independents attached to the High Calvanistic sentiments. There is no settled minister.
The Independent Chapel in St James' Street was erected in 1823 at a cost, including school rooms, of £5,500, and will seat 800 persons. The Rev. John Wild is the pastor.
Friar Lane Independent Chapel is a handsome Gothic Structure, in the decorated early English style, erected in 1828. It is 63 feet 6 inches by 43 feet, and will seat about 800 persons. Two octagonal towers, 52 feet in height and ten feet 8 inches in diameter, at the entrance, serve as staircases leading to the galleries for the congregation, and above that to narrow galleries for 600 Sunday scholars. Underneath the chapel are catacombs for 500 bodies. The centre part of the stairs in both stairs is hollow; one is a ventilator for the catacombs, the other a chimney for the furnace that warms the Chapel. The Rev. Jph. Gilbert is the pastor.
White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853.
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