Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion
The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion is a small society of evangelical churches, founded in 1783 by Selina, Countess of Huntingdon as a result of the Evangelical Revival. For years it was strongly associated with the Calvinist Methodist movement of George Whitefield.[1]
John Marrant (1755 – 1791), an ordained minister with the Connexion, was a noted evangelist amongst the Cherokee Native Americans and the Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia.
In the 1850s English-speaking Quebecer John Molson built a church for the sect near his brewery in Montreal, but it was poorly attended and soon became a military barracks.[2]
Today the church has 21 congregations in England and some in Sierra Leone. Of the UK churches six normally have full time pastors — Eastbourne, Ely, Goring, St. Ives, Turners Hill and Ebley. Total attendance at all churches is approximately 1,000 adults and children.[3]
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Churches [edit]
Active [edit]
- At Ely, Cambridgeshire: New Connexions Free Church, Ely
- At Copthorne, West Sussex: Copthorne Chapel
- At Ely Cambridgeshire: Countess Free Church, Ely
- At Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex: Shoreham Free Church
- At Eastbourne, East Sussex: South Street Free Church
- At Turners Hill, West Sussex: Turners Hill Free Church
- At Woodmancote, Gloucestershire: Woodmancote Evangelical Free Church
- At Wormey, between Hoddesdon and Cheshunt, Hertfordshire: Wormley Free Church
- At Cradley, Herefordshire, near Malvern, founded 1823
- At Bells Yew Green, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
- At Bolney, Haywards Heath, West Sussex
- At Broad Oak, Canterbury, Kent
- At Ebley, Stroud, Gloucestershire
- At Goring-on-Thames, Reading, Berkshire
- At Hailsham, East Sussex
- At Middleton, Greater Manchester
- At Mortimer West End, Padworth Common, Reading. Berkshire
- At Rosedale, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
- At Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey, Kent
- At St Ives, Cornwall
- At Wivelsfield, East Sussex
No longer active [edit]
- At Brighton, East Sussex, the first of the churches, founded at North Street in 1761.[4]
- At Preston, Lancashire, founded before 1826, in Pole Street, the church is now closed.[5]
- At South Stoke, Oxfordshire, founded in 1820,[6] is now a private house.[7]
- At Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, founded 1789, known as Tyldesley Top Chapel.
References [edit]
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"Methodism". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. - ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VIkxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=66UFAAAAIBAJ&dq=bishop-fulford&pg=4431%2C2334187
- ^ "Today's Churches". Countess Of Huntingdons Connexion. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
- ^ "North Street: The Countess of Huntingdon's Church, by Jennifer Drury". 24 August 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
- ^ "St Mark, Preston- Lady Huntingdons Connexion". genuki.org.uk. 2 April 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
- ^ Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 774. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- ^ "Oxfordshire Churches & Chapels website: South Stoke". Oxfordshirechurches.info. Retrieved 2012-06-06.
External links [edit]
- Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion – official website
- Countess of Huntingdon Connexion History – South Street Free Evangelical Church
- New Connexions– New Connexions Group of Churches
- G.W. Kirby (1972), The Elect Lady
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