PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY.
A Presbyterian preacher was licensed in 1672. (fn. 97) There were
six nonconformists in the parish in 1676, (fn. 98) and two
Baptists in 1724. (fn. 99)
A Wesleyan Methodist chapel on the east side of
the high road was opened in 1890 or 1891, after a
preacher from Shoreham had preached in a farm
kitchen in Ashington over two years. The building,
which was of iron, was succeeded by the present
building of flint and red brick in 1894-5. There were
130 sittings in 1895 (fn. 1) and in 1940. (fn. 2) The Linfields,
later of Oast House, were a prominent Methodist
family in the parish. (fn. 3) In 1977 the chapel was served
by a minister from Shoreham. (fn. 4)
Footnotes
| 97 |
Cal. S.P. Dom. 1672, 235. |
| 98 |
S.R.S. xlv. 146. |
| 99 |
W.S.R.O., Ep. I/26/3, p. 13. |
| 1 |
Worthing Gaz. 25 June 1894; Suss. Coast Mercury,
15 June 1895; W. Suss. Gaz. 10 Dec. 1981; Kelly's Dir.
Suss. (1895). |
| 2 |
Methodist Ch. Bldg. Return (1940). |
| 3 |
W. Suss. Gaz. 10 Dec. 1981. |
| 4 |
Notice at ch. 1977. |