PROTESTANT NONCONFORMITY.
A single nonconformist was noted in 1676. (fn. 91) Dissenters, led by their minister, William Foxwell, obtained
licences for worship in several private houses at the
Hyde in 1803 and 1804. (fn. 92) They were probably
Baptists and may have been connected with a
short-lived chapel in the Hendon part of the Hyde,
founded in 1843. (fn. 93)
It is more likely, however, that some of the dissenters of 1804 (fn. 94) joined the Congregationalists who
licensed one of Elizabeth King's houses on the
Kingsbury side of the Hyde in 1818. (fn. 95) The meetingplace apparently moved to the Hendon part in
1836 (fn. 96) but had returned to Kingsbury by 1851,
when it was held in Henry Billing's house in
Edgware Road, just north of the King's Arms. A
minister had average congregations of 20 'mixed
Christians' at the two Sunday services. (fn. 97) A
Congregational chapel in Edgware Road, south of
the King's Arms, was registered in 1860 (fn. 98) and
conveyed to church members as trustees in 1878. By
1912 the chapel was 'practically at an end' and in
1913 the trusteeship was vested in the London
Congregational Union (Incorporated), in order that
the building could be used as a mission hall by
Cricklewood Congregational church. A new Congregational church was opened in 1933 on the
Hendon side of Edgware Road and the old chapel
was sold to the Salvation Army, which used it until
1935 when the licence to worship was cancelled. (fn. 99)
Kingsbury Free church was built in 1931 for
Baptists (fn. 1) who had been meeting in a builder's hut.
It is a brick building with timber and plaster
decoration, at the junction of Slough Lane and
Salmon Street. A church hall was erected next to the
church in the 1930s. (fn. 2)
Methodists met on the new Queensbury estate
in 1935 and in 1936 an empty shop near Queensbury
station was opened for temporary use as a Sunday
school and for worship. A brick church, designed
by H. R. Houchin in a cinema-modernistic style,
was opened in Beverley Drive in 1938. A new
church hall was added in 1958. (fn. 3)
There was a gospel hall in Bacon Lane in 1936 (fn. 4)
and Roe Green hall in Princes Avenue was registered
for undenominational worship in 1937 by members
of Woodcroft Evangelical church. (fn. 5)
In 1937 meetings were held by the Protestant
Apostolic Church in Oakleigh Avenue, (fn. 6) at a mission
hall which was registered in 1939. (fn. 7)
Footnotes
| 91 |
William Salt Libr., Stafford, Salt MS. 33, p. 40. |
| 92 |
Guildhall MS. 9580/2; G.R.O. Worship Returns,
Lond. dioc. nos. 584, 608. The application for Foxwell's
house in 1803 gives it as in Hendon and the denomination
as Baptists. |
| 93 |
See p. 40. |
| 94 |
e.g. James Reopath or Redpath appears in both certs. |
| 95 |
Guildhall MS. 9580/2; G.R.O. Worship Returns,
Lond. dioc. no. 1073. For Elizabeth King's houses, see
M.R.O., Acc. 262/30. |
| 96 |
See p. 39. |
| 97 |
H.O. 107/1700/135/2 ff. 310-28; H.O. 129/135/2/4
/6. |
| 98 |
G.R.O. Worship Reg. no. 9385; O.S. Map 1/2,500,
Mdx. XI. 6 (1873 edn.). |
| 99 |
G.R.O. Worship Reg. no. 9385; Char. Com. file
89916; see p. 41. |
| 1 |
G.R.O. Worship Reg. no. 53464. |
| 2 |
Ex inf. the sec. (1969). |
| 3 |
Material supplied by Queensbury Meth. ch.; G.R.O.
Worship Reg. no. 58015. |
| 4 |
Char. Com. file 119315. |
| 5 |
G.R.O. Worship Reg. no. 57127; ex. inf. Mr. J. A.
Gardiner (1969). |
| 6 |
Kelly's Dir. Wembley (1937). |
| 7 |
G.R.O. Worship Reg. no. 58778. |