High Pavement Chapel

High Pavement Unitarian Chapel

Unitarian Chapel on High Pavement, now the Pitcher and Piano public house
Country England
Previous denomination Unitarian
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade II listed[1]
Architect(s) Stuart Colman
Completed 1876
Closed 1982

High Pavement Chapel is a building on High Pavement in Nottingham. It is now the Pitcher and Piano public house and is Grade II listed.

History

By August 1662, under the Act of Uniformity, two Nottingham ministers, John Whitlock and William Reynolds had been deprived of their living at St Mary's Church, Nottingham and a third, John Barret, of his at St Peter's left town to comply with the Five Mile Act 1665. However, they continued to preach in the area, including houses in Nottingham's Bridlesmith Gate and Middle Pavement. This led to the foundation of a permanent chapel in High Pavement in 1690.[2]

By 1735 the congregation had established itself as liberal and in 1802 as Unitarian. In 1758 the appointment of a new junior minister, Isaac Smithson, caused a schism. The senior minister withdrew to a new chapel in nearby Halifax Place. This schism lasted until 1775 when the two congregations merged. The original chapel was considerably rebuilt in 1805.

In 1864 the congregation opened a daughter church, Christ Church, Peas Hill. This survived until 1932.

The current building was opened in 1876, built to a design of the architect Stuart Colman, of Bristol. It was used as a place of worship for Unitarian Presbyterians in Nottingham until 1982. It was then converted into the Nottingham Lace Museum, but this venture proved financially unviable. The building was then converted to its current use, as a Pitcher and Piano public house. [3] The current congregation, Nottingham Unitarians, are now based nearby at 3 Plumptre Street, Nottingham NG1 1JL, a former lace factory where items of lace were finished. [4]

Stained glass

Ministers

  • John Whitlock, M.A. 1662-1708
  • William Reynolds, M.A. 1662-1698
  • John Barret, B.A. 1662-1713
  • John Whitlock junior 1689-1723
  • John Hardy 1714-1727
  • Nathaniel Whitlock 1729-1739
  • Obadiah Hughes[5] 1728-1735
  • Samuel Eaton, 0.0.1737-1759
  • Joseph Evans 1754-1758
  • Isaac Smithson 1758-1769
  • John Milne 1759-1772
  • Thomas Brushaw 1769-1772

  • John Simpson 1772-1777
  • George Walker, F.R.S. 1774-1798
  • Nathaniel Philipps, D. D. 1778-1785
  • Nicholas Clayton, LL.D. 1785-1795
  • William Walters 1794-1806
  • Robert Kell 1799-1801
  • James Tayler 1802-1831
  • John Grundy 1806-1811
  • William Pitt Scargill[6] 1811
  • Richard Fry 1812-1813
  • Joseph Hutton, LL.D. 1813-1816
  • Henry Turner 1817-1822

  • Benjamin Carpenter 1822·1860
  • William Blazeby, B.A. 1859-1860
  • Peter William Clayden 1860-1868
  • Richard Acland Armstrong, B.A. 1869-1884
  • James Harwood, B.A. 1884-1892
  • William Edward Addis, M.A. 1892-1899
  • Joseph Morgan Lloyd Thomas 1900-1912
  • John Charles Ballantyne, M. A. 1913-1918
  • Simon Jones, B.A. 1918-1934
  • James Arnold Williams, B.A., B.D. 1934-1946
  • Charles Gordon Bolam, B.A., B.D., M.A. 1946-

Organists

References

  1. Historic England. "Lace Hall  (Grade II) (1247635)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  2. Peter Hoare: The Rectors of St Peter's Church, Nottingham, 1241-1991 (Nottingham: St Peter's Parochial Church Council, 1992), pp. 22-24.
  3. "Pitcher and Piano website".
  4. Nottingham Unitarians website http://www.nottinghamunitarians.org.uk/ Nottingham Unitarians website Check |url= value (help). Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5.  "Hughes, Obadiah". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  6.  "Scargill, William Pitt". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Coordinates: 52°57′04″N 1°8′45″W / 52.95111°N 1.14583°W / 52.95111; -1.14583

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