Midland Churches: A History of the Congregations on - General ...
Midland Churches: A History of the Congregations on - General ...
Midland Churches: A History of the Congregations on - General ...
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BIRMINGHAM.<br />
CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH, FORMERLY THE NEW MEETING.<br />
Present Church in Broad Street, opened I January, 1862.<br />
First Meeting-house built in Deritend, 1692."<br />
Sec<strong>on</strong>d ,, opened in Moor Street, 19 April, 1732.<br />
Third 9 9 9 9 ,, 22 July, 1802.<br />
MINISTERS.<br />
- Sillitoe .. .<br />
Thomas Pickard<br />
Sahuel Bourn<br />
Samuel Blyth<br />
William Hawkes .. .<br />
Joseph Priestley. LL. D.<br />
John Edwards<br />
David J<strong>on</strong>es<br />
John Kentish<br />
...<br />
Joshua Toulmin, D. D.<br />
James Yates, M.A. ...<br />
John Reynell Wreford, D.D. ...<br />
Samuel Bache . . .<br />
Henry Enfield Dows<strong>on</strong>, B.A. ...<br />
Henry William Crosskey, LL. D.<br />
. . .<br />
. . .<br />
Richard Thos. Nichols<strong>on</strong>, B.A., assistrztzt<br />
James Crossley, colleague . . . . . .<br />
Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, M.A. ...<br />
Very little is known <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> first two meeting-houses <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> this society,<br />
which was founded in 1692, owing to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Old Meeting building being <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
insufficient size to accomtnodate <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> increasing number <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> n<strong>on</strong>c<strong>on</strong>formists<br />
who desired to worship in it. If any earlier records, o<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r than <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> registers,<br />
existed, <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>y probably perished in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> riots and burning <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> meeting-<br />
house in 1791. The minute books <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> Vestry Committee and Trustees<br />
*Deritend = Der-yat-end, i.e,, End nigh <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> deer gate.<br />
cf. Memorials <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Old Birmingham, Men and Names, 1864, Toulmin Smith.