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The
development of Churches in the City |
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Source:
"The Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent" John Ward, 1843 |
"....there
are in all, or most of the Pottery towns, Chapels and Schools belonging to the
Baptists, the Independents, or Congregationalists, and the Christian Society,
(as the congregations under the care of the Rev. Robert Aitkens, a recent
seceder from the Established Church, choose to designate themselves, with
somewhat singular modesty): the Quakers have also a meeting-house at Stoke;
and the Unitarians, a few years since, built one at Hanley, but in raising a
congregation, they did not we think, succeed. Add to these, two Roman Catholic
chapels, one erected at Lane End, within the last twenty years, and one at
Cobridge, of ancient date; together with all the churches and chapels of the
establishment, which have lately multiplied nearly three-fold, and are still
increasing; ....
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