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History of Ponders End
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The first
Methodists met in Ponders End around 1839 as a society of the Wesleyan
Association, gathering under the leadership of schoolmaster, John Mattinson
Ferry, in the schoolroom of his home, Providence House in the High Street,
and later in another larger schoolroom.
By 1842 they had their own chapel in the South Street area near the
marshes. This society
ceased in the 1850s. A new group was
formed in the late 1870s by outreach from Stoke Newington circuit of the
Wesleyan Methodist Connexion. They
erected a 'tin' chapel at the station end of Alma Road in 1879 or 1880. In 1892 the
Baptists put up a large Chapel in South Street. |
Relationships
between the Baptists and Methodists had always been good, so when, in 1895,
the Baptists met serious and ultimately crippling financial difficulty in a
local recession, they offered the chapel to the Wesleyan Methodists who moved
swiftly to acquire the building. Many
of the Baptists remained to become members of that Wesleyan Methodist
Society. By the late
1920s, it was recognised that the old South Street chapel had always been too
large and had deteriorated seriously.
This and other considerations persuaded the Methodists, in 1931, to
move from South Street to the present building in the High Street. It was built as the church hall, with the
intention of building a chapel later, on the land at the south side. The war
intervened and the chapel was never built. |
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