Articles with the tag: Churches


Firefighting in the Village of Leamington Priors

Firefighting in the Village of Leamington Priors

    It is fairly certain that the eighteenth century village of Leamington Priors had only the most basic equipment for use in the event of fire. Although larger towns and cities might boast one of the early manual fire engines, in villages up and down the...
Leamington’s First Floor Chapels

Leamington’s First Floor Chapels

Leamington had many chapels, some are long gone, others have been put to alternative uses, and some lie empty,  probably damp and derelict, awaiting their fate.  The ex- Baptist chapel on Clarendon Street is one such, being proposed currently for demolition and...
The Parish Church

The Parish Church

A presentation by Alan Griffin, Chair of Leamington History Group, about the history of Leamington’s Parish Church. Click on the forward and back arrows to navigate through the presentation. Click on the two-headed arrow symbol in the bottom right to enter...
Methodist chapels

Methodist chapels

Portland Street Wesleyan Chapel This was the original purpose built home of Methodism in Leamington. ‘The earliest Leamington Methodists went over to Warwick to worship’, by 1817 William Scott and his wife had founded a place of worship in...
Milverton churches

Milverton churches

Milverton Episcopal Chapel or Pepper Pot Chapel This chapel was built to solve the problem of those of Milverton’s parishioners who preferred not to travel to St. James, or brave the Binn’s brook to worship outside their home parish in a Leamington chapel....