Tyldesley Top Chapel
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The Tyldesley Top Chapel is a chapel in Tyldesley
. It is a Grade II Listed building.
Top Chapel was built in 1789 on a site of 1,300 square yards at the top of Tyldesley Banks opposite the Square. The site and building materials were all provided by Thomas Johnson. It was properly known as The Lady Huntingdon Chapel but became known as Top Chapel because of its position at the top of Astley Street. Its first minister was J. Johnson who was ordained at Spa Fields
Chapel London by the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion.
Lady Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon had been greatly influenced by John Wesley
and George Whitefield
and set up the Calvinistic Connexion within the Methodist Church. The Connexion had several chapels mostly in the south of England.
Tyldesley
Tyldesley is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It occupies an area north of Chat Moss near the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, east-southeast of Wigan and west-northwest of the city of Manchester...
. It is a Grade II Listed building.
Top Chapel was built in 1789 on a site of 1,300 square yards at the top of Tyldesley Banks opposite the Square. The site and building materials were all provided by Thomas Johnson. It was properly known as The Lady Huntingdon Chapel but became known as Top Chapel because of its position at the top of Astley Street. Its first minister was J. Johnson who was ordained at Spa Fields
Spa Fields
Spa Fields is a park, and surrounding area, in the London Borough of Islington in London, bordering Finsbury and Clerkenwell. Historically it is known for the Spa Fields riots of 1816 and an Owenite community which existed there between 1821 and 1824...
Chapel London by the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion.
Lady Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon had been greatly influenced by John Wesley
John Wesley
John Wesley was a Church of England cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield...
and George Whitefield
George Whitefield
George Whitefield , also known as George Whitfield, was an English Anglican priest who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain, and especially in the British North American colonies. He was one of the founders of Methodism and of the evangelical movement generally...
and set up the Calvinistic Connexion within the Methodist Church. The Connexion had several chapels mostly in the south of England.