Kent

This is a list of chapels that had been registered by 1867, derived from ‘A list of places of meeting for public religious worship, certified to the Registrar General’.  Remember that registration was not compulsory.

All three of the denominations who merged to form the United Methodist Church in 1907 had places of worship in Kent 50 years earlier.

The Bible Christians were strong in the rural South-East of the county, but also around the naval bases of the Medway, as can be seen in the first map. They also had chapels on the edge of London. A further eight Bible Christian chapels existed at this time, but had not been registered. They were in the south-east and near the Medway.

The United Methodist Free Churches are shown on the second map. They were also concentrated in three areas: suburban South-East London, around Sevenoaks, and they had two chapels in the Medway towns.

The only Methodist New Connexion chapel was in Deptford. This is shown in yellow on the second map.

Unless otherwise stated each of these places of worship is described as a chapel.

The numbers on the list relate to places, and match those on the map. The base map is provided under this licence

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