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Churches - Dates

This table shows the dates of foundation of the religious groups and their buildings in Rushden, from a variety of sources.

Began
Name Road
First built
seats
cost
enlarged
seats
cost
moved
closed
demolished
abt 1270
St Mary's Church Church Parade
abt 1270
 
 
1500s
 
 
restored 1875
 
 
1725
Baptist Church (Top Meeting) Little Street
1797
 
 
1873
 
 
1900
 
 
moved
Baptist Church (Top Meeting) Park Road
1900
1000
£6000
 
 
 
 
 
 
1801
Succoth Chapel - from Top Meeting High Street
1805
 
 
1825
 
 
 
 
 
moved
Succoth Chapel - (Bottom Meeting) built further along High St
1864
300
£1000
 
 
 
rebuilt 1893
 
1969
1840
Temperance Hall Newton Road/Park Road corner
1871
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1850
Elim Baptist Church barn in High Street
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1870
?
bef 1861
Wesleyan Methodist Church
(became Hope Methodist Church)
Park Road
1873
350
£1000
1905
750
£5200
 moved
 2013
sold 2013 
c1880
Union Church
1883
Salvation Army Barracks Queen Street
1888
 
 
 
 
 
 
1947 
?
moved
Salvation Army to Congregational Church
 
 
 
 
 
 
1947
 
 
1889
Independent Wesleyan Church High Street
1889
750
£4000
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Primitive Methodist Church Fitzwilliam Street
1890
150
 
 
 
 
 
1936
sold 1937
 
Congregational Church Church Street
1894
500
£2200
 
 
 
 
1947
 
1895
St Peter's Church of England Midland Road
1907
500
£4500
 
 
 
 
 
 
1895
Wesleyan Sunday School Station Road - "Tin Tabernacle"
1895
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wesleyan Reform Church Sartoris/Windmill Rd corner
1900
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mission Church Wellingborough Road
1901
500
£3000
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Zion Chapel (Strict Baptist) Station Road
1901
200
 
 
 
 
 
 
?
 
Spiritualist Church - Mission Hall Albion Place/Crabb Street
1925 (plan)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Baptist Sunday School Moor Road
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1905
St Peter's Roman Catholic Church Higham Road
1904
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1933
Full Gospel Church Duck St/Wellingborough Rd
1937
 
 
 
 
 
2001
sold

moved
Full Gospel Church to South End Old School
 
 
 
 
 
 
2001
 
 
 
Church Army Social Centre Irchester Road
1920
150
£2000
 
 
 
 
 
?
1936
St Marks Church Highfield Road
1936
 
 
 
 
 
 
1980
 
1936
Highfield Baptist Church Highfield Road
1936
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Spiritualist Church Moor Road
1919 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Brethren Sartoris Road
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1921
Society of Friends Meeting House Newton Road/Wellingboro' Rd
(see Kelly's 1924)
 
 
 
 
 
 1959
 
<1910
Seventh Day Adventists' Church North Street schoolroom 
formerly St Mary's Mission Hall  (see 1910 Valuations for North Street)
 
Jehovah's Witnesses Hall Shirley Road
1940s 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2013
Heritage Chapel and Halls Park Road
2013
formerly Hope Methodist Church

By Faith Road
Began
First built
Anglican  
 
 
St Mary's Church Church Parade
abt 1270
abt 1270
St Peter's Church of England Midland Road
1895
1895 & (new)1907
St Marks Church Highfield Road
1936
1936
Church Army Social Centre Irchester Road
 
1920
Whitefriars Church Whitefriars School
1991
became a parish in 2008
Baptist  
 
 
Baptist Church (Top Meeting) Little Street
1725
1797
Baptist Church (Top Meeting) Park Road
moved
1900
Succoth Chapel (Bottom Meeting) High Street
1801
1805
Succoth Chapel (Bottom Meeting) built further along High St
moved
1864
Zion Chapel (Strict Baptist) Midland Road
 
1901
Temperance Hall Newton Road/Park Road corner
1840
1871
Elim Baptist Church barn in High Street
1850
 
Baptist Sunday School Moor Road
 
 
Highfield Road Baptist  
1936
1936
Methodist  
 
 
Chapel on the Green  
earliest
 
Wesleyan Methodist Church
(became Hope Methodist Church)
Park Road
bef 1861
1873
Independent Wesleyan Church High Street
1889
1889
Primitive Methodist Church Fitzwilliam Street
1889
1890
Wesleyan Reform Church Sartoris/Windmill Rd corner
 
1900
Wesleyan Sunday School Station Road - "Tin Tabernacle"
1895
1895
Mission Chapel Wellingborough Road
 
1901
Roman Catholic  
 
 
St Peter's Roman Catholic Church Higham Road
1905
1904
Salvation Army  
 
 
Salvation Army Barracks Queen Street
1883
1888
Salvation Army to Congregational Church
moved 1947
 
Other Non-conformist  
 
 
Congregational Church Church Street
1888
1894
Seventh Day Adventists North Street
<1910
Society of Friends Meeting House Newton Road
?
(see Kelly's 1924)
Spiritualist Church - Mission Hall Albion Place/Crabb Street
 
1925
Spiritualist Church Moor Road
 
 
Full Gospel Church Duck St/Wellingborough Rd
1933
1937
Full Gospel Church to South End Old School
moved 
-
Jehovah's Witnesses Hall Shirley Road
1940s
1969
The Brethren Sartoris Road
 
 
Heritage Chapel and Halls Established at the former
Wesleyan Methodist Church
2013
1890

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