The Churches of Britain and Ireland
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Cosby, Leicestershire Baptist Church (1928) on Croft Road. Another view and the foundation stone. SP 545 948. All © Howard Richter (2012). Link (with interior photo). This link has a photo of the previous church, on the same site, built in 1911, and demolished in 1928, to allow the building of the present church. This must have been the earliest church on the site, as the OS map of 1904 shows the site as empty. Howard advises that there was an older Particular Baptist Chapel in the village, perhaps 200 yards away at about SP 547 948, where an unnamed chapel is shown of OS maps of 1886 and 1903. Dating from 1830, the congregation may be continuous with the later chapels.Cemetery Chapel in the cemetery on Narborough Road. Another view. Map evidence dates the building to between 1886 and 1903. The register of burials commences in 1900. SP 546 957. Both © Howard Richter (2015). The Methodist Church, built as Primitive Methodist. A close-up of the window above the door. It's dated here to 1922, successor to an earlier chapel of 1886, for which see below. SP 546 949. Link. All © Howard Richter (2011). Another view, © Peter Smith (2022). The former Primitive Methodist Chapel (1886-1922, date-stone) on Chapel Lane was succeeded by the Methodist Church (see the previous entry). The date-stone suggests that the building was either converted to residential use in 1936, or very extensively re-modelled in that year. Two further views - 1, 2. Compare with a 1905 photo here (third photo down). SP 5456 9452. All © Howard Richter (2014). St. Michael and All Angels. SP 548 949. © Peter Smith (2022). Link. Grade II listed. The former United Methodist Free Church (1863 - date-stone) on Chapel Lane, long a private residence. Howard observes that any history for this chapel seems to have fallen through the cracks, and his usual sources have almost nothing to say about it, except that map evidence suggests it may no longer have still been active by the time of the 1886-7 O.S. map, which doesn't mark it. SP 5462 9451. Both © Howard Richter (2014).
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04 March 2023
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