Midland Churches: A History of the Congregations on - General ...
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ALCESTER.<br />
PRESBYTERIAN MEETING-HOUSE.<br />
Present building opened 1721 ; former <strong>on</strong>e, before 1693.<br />
MINISTERS.<br />
Samuel Tickner ...<br />
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Joseph Porter ... ...<br />
Richard Rogers<strong>on</strong><br />
George Brodhurst<br />
Belljamin Evans<br />
Belljamin Maurice<br />
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Closed ...<br />
Christmas News<strong>on</strong> Saint ...<br />
Supplies ..,<br />
Thomas Warren ...<br />
6'hnl)r. Dist. Udt. Ass.<br />
JlirZZn 77 d Christiart Uni<strong>on</strong><br />
William Henry Eastlake<br />
Thomas Wils<strong>on</strong> Scott<br />
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Sztpplies ...<br />
C/osed ...<br />
John Dale ... ...<br />
r7Iidllnnd Christiatt Uni<strong>on</strong><br />
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This building is <strong>on</strong>e bel<strong>on</strong>ging to that very small group <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> early<br />
eighteenth century erecti<strong>on</strong>, which has fortunately escaped from <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> restorer's<br />
and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> remodeller's hands, and remains well nigh in its original c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>,<br />
and as perfect as <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> day <strong>on</strong> which it was opened. The oak pulpit with<br />
square sounding board; <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> marble tablet close by, to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> memory <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
Joseph Porter ; <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> st<strong>on</strong>e f<strong>on</strong>t ; <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> nine light brass candelabrum with <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
dove and olive branch in its beak ; <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> communi<strong>on</strong> pews with <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>ir quaint<br />
method <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> forming l<strong>on</strong>g narrow tables, by half folding over <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> backs <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> seats ; and <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> wealth <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> carved woodwork are all here and in a<br />
perfect c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>, thus giving <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> worshippers <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> to-day a true picture <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> interior <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> a meeting-house loved and adorned by <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>ir forefa<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>rs.<br />
It was well said at <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> re-opening service <strong>on</strong> 13 July, 1893, that this is<br />
a building which ought no more to be touched than <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Abbey at<br />
Westminster.
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