The Museum Collection: Church and Chapel
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One of the largest objects in the Museum is the pulpit from Providence Baptist Chapel in Bearfield, Bradford. It was made of pitch pine as part of the furnishings when the chapel opened in 1858. The congregation of the chapel was always small and dwindled to the extent that it closed in the early 1980s. The building was converted into two houses. The Museum also has one of the pews from the chapel, a Bible and the banner of its Sunday School from 1863.
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This silver-plated coffee pot was presented to Rev David H.H. Wassell from members of his choir at Zion Chapel, Conigre Hill, Bradford in July 1893. It was found in an antique shop in Hayling Island, Hampshire.
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A small poster advertising an anniversary event for the Sunday School of the Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapel in 1905 (amended to 1906). The nonconformist chapel, in Bearfield became part of the Huntingdon Connexion, on the Calvinistic wing of Methodism.
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One of a collection of small posters advertising the next preacher, dei volente (God willing) at the Old Baptist Chapel in St Margaret’s Street.
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