Broadgates Chapel Gallery

Independents, Ebenezer Chapel, The Fold, Broadgates

Brief Timeline:

• 1790: Independents wanted free self-governing congregations, opposed to any connection between church and state.
• 1785: formed by Protestant Dissenters who met in Globe Inn yard.
• 1787: built this chapel.
• 1810: Sunday school founded, with the school at east end; later Dr. Joseph Parker was a teacher.
• 1812: floor of chapel boarded, gallery erected.
• 1825: vestry added.
• 1852: Sunday school room doubled in size.
• 1869: closed when congregation, then called Congregationalists, moved to Hencotes Congregational Church.  Later a steam-operated corn mill, now named Broadgates House and is a retail premises.

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