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Church History information for Walmersley Rd Primitive Methodist, Bury and places above it in the hierarchy

Walmersley Rd Primitive Methodist, Bury

It was founded before 1895. It is now closed, but we do not know the date of closure. This community originally worshipped in a building on the west side of Walmersley Road, opposite St Marks Square. When the New Jerusalem Church left its premises slightly closer to the town centre, the Primitive Methodists acquired them for use as a Sunday School. Later the original chapel was sold and the NJ building was used for services. The original Methodist chapel was used as a 'hat factory' for many years. Both buildings are now demolished.

The Primitive Methodist church was an early 19th century (1807) secession from the Wesleyan Methodist church and was particularly successful in evangelising agricultural and industrial communities at open meetings. In 1932 the Primitive Methodists joined with the Wesleyan Methodists and the United Methodists to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain.

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Bury

"From Dr. V. D. Lipman's inspection of the originals of the census returns of 1851, it is clear that the 'synagogues' at Bury, Lutterworth and Haslingden (and one of those at Leeds) were in fact places of worship of a non-Jewish (though perhaps Judaising) sect who called themselves 'Israelites.' "

from Cecil Roth's history of provincial Jewry published in 1940

Lancashire

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