|
Reading Room, Stoney Middleton
The plaque which can be seen above the doorway, and just below the eaves says:-
In Loving Memory of Historically, “A Unitarian Chapel stood on the site of the Reading Room. The aged preacher came from Great Hucklow to Middleton every Sunday until the congregation gradually dwindled away. The building was then sold to Lord Denman. A private school was afterwards kept in the Chapel for a time by Mr. Dyer, one of the congregation, who was ‘a Dyer by name and by trade’.” [Ref: History of Stoney Middleton, Chapter XXV, Miscellaneous (Thomas Cowen, 1910)] This may explain how it happened that some residents of Stoney Middleton and surrounding villages had baptisms recorded in the registers of Great Hucklow Presbyterian Chapel. (Commentary provided by Rosemary Lockie) |
||
Top
|
© Copyright Rosemary Lockie, GENUKI and Contributors 2000-2007, &c.
GENUKI is a registered trade mark of the charitable trust GENUKI, see
About GENUKI as an Organisation
Image contributed by Peter & Janet Kirk on April 2003.
URL of this page: http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/DBY/StoneyMiddleton/ReadingRoom.html
[Created 4 May 2003. Last updated 18 Dec 2007 - 14:49 by Rosemary Lockie]