Rushden - Churches & Chapels

Left: Baptist Church (Top Meeting) in Little Street - Centre: St Mary's Parish Church - Right: The Wesleyan Sunday School in Station Road

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Churches			'Hearts & Soles'
	Overview & Dates			To read about the growth of Non-conformity which accompanied the growth of the Shoe Trade 1881-1901, click here
	Valor Ecclesiasticus
	Religious Census 1903			Non-conformist Shoe Manufacturers
	Religious Census 1851
	Religious Liberty		Church Records
	Tributes to Mr Gladstone 1898			For transcribed Registers & Records
	Free Church Council 1899
	Council of Churches			See the Genealogy Section
	Miscellaneous Notes on Churches
Anglican/Church of England			Associated Groups
	St. Mary's Church			RACY (Rushden Area Christian Youth)
	History			Youth Sunday 1945
	Rectors			Y M C A Hall - Royal Visit
	Rev. G.E. Downe 1843 - 1868			YMCA Aims & 1952 Table Tennis Team
	Rev. John Thomas Barker 1868-1890			'Church Lads' Brigade
	Rectory Houses
	Memorial Inscriptions		Meeting House Certificates
	Church and Chapel Relations 1838			Index
	Harmonic Society
	New Mission Room 1882
	Organ Recital 1898
	Lecturn 1907		Churchwardens Accounts
	Sunday School Concert c1920			Churchwarden's Accounts 1718-1890
	Church in Danger 1929
	Survey 1930
	Concert at the Institute		Methodist
	Choir			Primitive Methodists
	Choir Report 1967			Primitive Methodist Opens
	Choir, Organ & Organist - Notes			Primitive Methodist Church
	Girls' Club 1927-1929			Primitive Methodist Officials
	Mens' Group c1930			Primitive Methodist Notes
	Service 1973 - Televised			Independent Wesleyan Church
	St Mary's Football Teams 1948-1951			Events 1878 - 1882
	Snippets			Local Preacher's Aid
				Sermons & Band of Hope
	Whitefriars Church			Young Men's Institute 1895
	Whitefriars Church - New Parish			Independent Wesleyan Church
				Poem by Mrs L Keech
	St Peter's Church of England			Roll of Honour 1918
	A Century of Witness 1895-1995			Mother & Babies Annual Tea 1953
	Origins			Mission Church
	Football 1906			Memorial Stones Laid 1900
	Opening 1907			New Building Opens 1901
	New Vicarage 1930			The Early Years
	Sunday School Sports 1917			Ministers
	Fundraising Event			Mr T Surridge - Preacher
	Altar Frontals			Cricket Teams 1912-1933 (updated - Jan 2009) then click Run to view the album
	Church Council 1969			'The Golden Oldies!'
	Church Life			Operatic - Mayhem - 1924
	St Mark's Church			Tea in the Mission Field
	St Marks Church			Sunday School 65th Anniversary
				Tin Tabernacle
Baptist				Hope Methodist Church (formerly The Wesleyan Methodist Church)
	Baptist History			Hope Methodist Church
	Old Baptist Church (Top Meeting)			Boys Brigade Re-union Dinner 1966
	Old Baptist Church			Rev Walter J Gadsby
	Remembering Robert E Bradfield
	Park Road Baptist Church		United Sunday Schools
	Park Road Baptist Church			United Schools Treat 1913
	Laying the Memorial Stones 1900
	Opening of the Church 1901		Roman Catholic
	Succoth Church (Bottom Meeting)			St Peter's Roman Catholic Church
	Succoth Church (Bottom Meeting) (includes sound clip)			Log Book & Parish History
	Succoth Church Events			For Parish Registers see Genealogy section
	Charles Drawbridge			History
	Zion Baptist Church (Strict Baptist)			Pauline Gurning Memories
	Zion Church
	Elim Baptist Church		Salvation Army
	Elim Baptist Church			Newsclips 1928 & 1929
	Highfield Road Baptist Church			General Booth Visits County
	Ministers			Salvation Army - 100 years
	Men's Fireside Group			Salvation Army 125 Years
	50 years Anniversary			Xmas Lunches 1965
	Memories			Corps News - April 1991
	Sunday School - 1973 Sale			Over 60s Club - Members 102nd Birthdays
				Newsclips
Temperance			Other Non-conformist
	Temperance Society			Congregational Church
	Temperance Posters & Meetings 1878/9			Congregational Church
	Letter - John Sargent 1880			Anniversary 1898 & Sale
	Blue Ribbon Meetings			Events
	Temperance Tea 1890			Roll of Honour WWI
	Astronomy Lecture 1893			Full Gospel Church
	Temperance Conference 1898			The Brethren
	B.W.T.A. Annual Meeting 1898			The Brethren
	B.W.T.A. Hall Opens 1907			Jehovah's Witnesses
	Temperance Memorial			Kingdom Hall
	Band of Hope			Christian Progressive Spiritualist Church
	Band of Hope 1919-1921			Mormons
	Centenary 1940			Union Church
	Temperance Annual Meeting 1941