Leckford Primitive Methodist, Hants

Built in 1872

1848 Leckford Primitive Methodist chapel as it was in 1992
Keith Guyler 1992
Return from Leckford Primitive Methodist chapel in the 1851 Census of Places of Public Religious Worship
Provided by David Tonks

George Wallis was appointed by the Primitive Methodist Shefford Circuit (Shefford is now Great Shefford, near Newbury) to undertake evangelism in the Andover area, beginning in the spring of 1833. Leckford was one of the villages where he preached.

George Watts was born in Leckford, Hampshire, on 2nd January 1815. He was converted at the age of 18 under the Primitive Methodists at Leckford, in the year 1833, and immediately began to engage in public prayer and exhortation. Very soon he became a local preacher, most of his preaching being in the open air. He entered the regular ministry in 1836, and began to preach nearly every night, and visited from house to house. On Sundays he often walked 15 to 20 miles and preached three or four times. In 1851 he left England as an evangelist to Australia, with his wife and three infant children.

This chapel was built in 1872.

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  • I’ve added a transcript of the return from Leckford Primitive Methodist chapel in the 1851 Census of Places of Public Religious Worship.
    The return gives the date of erection as 1846 which is the same as the notes with Keith Guyler’s photograph.
    The entry for “Free space or standing room” made me stop for a while. William Andrews, the steward, had entered “none except the ail up the midle”

    By Christopher Hill (30/07/2019)

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