The Churches of Britain and Ireland
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire
All Saints on Midland Road was built 1867-8. SP 8957 6781. © Gervase N. E. Charmley. Link. Grade II listed. Alma Street Wesleyan Reform Church was founded as the Independent Wesleyan Chapel (1877). SP 8937 6811. © Gervase N. E. Charmley. Link. High Street Chapel (U.R.C.) was originally High Street Congregational Church, dating from 1875, and is commonly known as the "Pork Pie" chapel, for obvious reasons. It replaced Salem Chapel which stands behind Pork Pie. Another view. SP 8897 6800. Both © Gervase N. E. Charmley. Link. Grade II* listed. The gate-piers etc. are also listed, as grade II. Little Zoar Strict Baptist Chapel (1808). When its successor church was built (Tabernacle - see below), Little Zoar served as the church hall. © Gervase N. E. Charmley. Mill Road Baptist Church, on Mill Road and Thomas Street. Another view. SP 8964 6814. Both © Gervase N. E. Charmley. Link. Mosque Islah Ul Muslimeen on Winstanley Road and Strode Road. Although it looks as if it may have previously been a chapel, a map of 1888 labels it as Church Room. SP 8964 6800. © Gervase N. E. Charmley. Link. Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (R.C.). © Gervase N. E. Charmley. Reachout Community Church (Pentecostal AoG, 1996). There has been a local congregation since the 1930's. © Gervase N. E. Charmley. St. Barnabas. From an old postcard (franked 1910), Bulman Collection. St. Mary the Virgin was designed by Ninian Comper, and building work lasted from 1906 until the 1930's. It is widely regarded as his masterpiece. Another view. Both © Gervase N. E. Charmley. Link. Before Victoria Congregational Chapel was built, the congregation met at Salem Congregational Chapel (1812). This was subsequently used as the church hall. Another view. Both © Gervase N. E. Charmley. Salvation Army (1874) was succeeded by another building after WWII. Both © Gervase N. E. Charmley. Shahjalal Jame Mosque on Winstanley Road and Strode Road, as seen by Streetview in 2020. It stands directly across Strode Road from Mosque Islah Ul Muslimeen. A former school, it appears from the earliest Streetview of 2009 to have been a Polish church at that time. SP 8961 6800. Society of Friends Meeting House off St. John's Street, a rather attractive building of 1819. SP 8895 6805. © Gervase N. E. Charmley. Grade II listed. Tabernacle Baptist Chapel (1863) on Great Park Street and Park Road was the successor to Little Zoar (see above). Gervase advises that a major renovation of 1901 (which added the porch) was paid for by a local brewer. In the days of Temperance, this upset some of the congregation, who split off and built Mill Road (see above). Interior view. SP 8922 6812. Both © Gervase N. E. Charmley. Victoria Centre (U.R.C.), was a plant from the High Street Chapel in the 1890's when the Victoria estate was developed. © Gervase N. E. Charmley.
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