Church Micro 10150 Nailsworth Christ Church Traditional Cache
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Church Micro 10150 Nailsworth Christ Church
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Built in 1821 this grand building replaced the Chapel in Forest Green, it was built nearer the centre of town.
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The cost of building the Lower Chapel was £2,000 and though a large portion of this was immediately subscribed, it remained still in debt. The well known distress in the manufacturing districts, which arose soon after, aided still further to depress the cause and to cast a cloud on the whole affair and for many years, that once flourishing church was seen with grief by the churches round, to be rapidly declining.
The church, for sometime, was in such an unsettled state, that it was not practicable for them to choose a settled pastor, and the pulpit was supplied by various ministers in and out of the neighbourhood.
In 1847 the debt was wiped out by a magnificent example of sacrificial Christian giving, from the oldest deacon to the most junior department of the Sunday School, under the guidance of Rev Charles Russell.
The Lower Chapel carried on with a number of ministers for 300 years until in 1967 it reunited
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