NONCONFORMITY.
Occasional recusants, some
of them members of the Marlott family, were recorded in the late 16th and early 17th century. (fn. 4) No
papist was returned in 1640. (fn. 5) There were two Quaker
households in the 1660s, one Presbyterian family in
1724, and a few Baptists at both periods. (fn. 6)
The Horsham Congregationalists apparently
started a mission at Barns Green in 1865. (fn. 7) 'New
work' with the support of New College, Hampstead
(Mdx.), was begun in 1870. (fn. 8) The chapel built about
then was rebuilt in 1912-13; (fn. 9) it is a plain brick
building. It was registered in 1929, (fn. 10) but by 1973
was being used for Anglican services. (fn. 11) It had closed
by 1982, (fn. 12) and was afterwards converted to a house.
Footnotes
| 4 |
S.A.C. xl. 126; xli. 104; W.S.R.O., Ep. I/23/7, f.
18. |
| 5 |
W.S.R.O., Ep. I/22/1 (1640). |
| 6 |
S.R.S. xlix. 70; S.A.C. li. 3; lv. 79; W.S.R.O., Ep.
I/22/1 (1662); Ep. I/26/3, p. 15. |
| 7 |
Suss. Cong. Union and Home Missionary Soc. Yr. Bk.
for 1923, 5. |
| 8 |
E. M. Marchant, Short Hist. of Cong. Ch. at Horsham,
1800-1950, 12 (copy in W.S.R.O. libr.); Pioneers Still:
Suss. Cong. Union and Home Missionary Soc. 1849-1949,
16. |
| 9 |
Marchant, Cong. Ch. at Horsham, 12; W.S.R.O., Ep.
I/22A/2 (1903). |
| 10 |
G.R.O. Worship Reg. no. 51735. |
| 11 |
W. Suss. Gaz. 1 Nov. 1973. |
| 12 |
Ibid. 26 Aug. 1982. |