The pages below cover the history of Twickenham Congregational Church up to 1972 when the church became Twickenham United Reformed Church. Their content is largely taken from my 1982 book ‘Chapel Next the Green’ with some minor editing and a few additions.
This is a work in progress and the link stubs below will be activated over the next week or two
Early days
- Early Nonconformity in Twickenham
- The church’s founder, Lady Amelia Shaw
- The church site
- Annual Report, January 1859
- Annual Report, March 1860
- The Journal of Abraham Slade: Introduction and Prologue 1856-57 1858-59 1860-61 1862-67 1868-80 1881-86 1887-1903
The church’s history by pastorate
- Early pastorates
- George Ingram, 1854-1864
- George Hunt Jackson, 1865-1871
- Samuel Fisher, 1871-1877
- Dissolution, Disillusion, 1877-1881
- Aurelius Gliddon, 1882-1884
- Thomas Poole, 1884-1891
- Arthur Calvert, 1892-1895
- George Hamson, 1896-1898
- Frederick Simmonds, 1899-1907
- Jenkyn James, 1908-1916
- Harold Bickley, 1916-1922
- John Thomas Rhys, 1923-1929
- Arthur Parker, 1930-1933
- (Henry) Allen Job, 1934-1943
- (William) Maurice Holland, 1944-1949
- Albert Molineaux, 1949-1954
- (Frank) Andrew Willmot, 1955-1964
- John Belderson, 1965-1971
- Harold Bennett, 1972-1985
Topics
- Morning worship 1873
- The British School and other schools meeting on the church site
- Twickenham in 1898
- Pew Rents
- Three prominent members
- Frederick Pearce (1866-1928), Church Secretary and Borough Engineer
- Election of Elders discussion paper, 1997