Catalogue description LOXLEY UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SHEFFIELD
This record is held by Sheffield City Archives
Reference: | SY/730/N |
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Title: | LOXLEY UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SHEFFIELD |
Description: |
Microfilm of registers, minute books etc |
Date: | 1804-1985 |
Held by: | Sheffield City Archives, not available at The National Archives |
Originals held at: |
For original records, see Sheffield Archives 1994/91 |
Language: | English |
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Physical description: | 10 Items |
Access conditions: |
Records are open for consultation |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
On abolition of South Yorkshire County Council on 31 March 1986, the records passed from South Yorkshire County Record Office, by agreement of the four South Yorkshire District Councils, to the custody of Sheffield Archives as lead authority |
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Administrative / biographical background: |
The account of the history of the Church, written in 1822, in the Church Book (SY 730/N1/1) says that Loxley Chapel was built in 1787 by the Rev. Benjamin Greaves, curate of Bradfield, originally for the use of the Established Church. In 1798 it passed into the hands of "that body of Protestant dissenters called Independents", and from 1802 or 1803 it had its own pastor, the Rev. Daniel Dunkerley. According to the Religious Census of 1851 an average congregation at an afternoon service was 200 |
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