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Ministers at Rosemary Hill Church
| 1700- ? |
Edward Warren |
1705 Rosemary Hill Meeting Place built |
| 1706 - 1728 |
Samuel Turton |
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| 1728 - 1735 |
John Basset |
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| 1735 - 1736 |
Samuel Philips |
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| 1739 - 1750 |
John Kirkpatrick |
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| 1755 - 1800 |
Josiah Corrie |
Group broke away to barn on Abbey Hill,
1787. |
| 1800 - 1816 |
Thomas Birkett |
Temporary reunion in 1814. |
The succeeding Unitarian ministers were not
connected with theAbbey Hill Story
Ministers in the first church built on Abbey Hill, opened 1828
| 1829 - 1830 |
Henry Edwards |
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| 1831 - 1832 |
David Blow |
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| 1833 - 1837 |
Joseph Fowler West |
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| 1838 - 1876 |
John Button |
First Sunday School formed. Head of
Arlidge School. New church built 1873 |
Ministers in the new Church
| 1877-1880 |
John Hardwick Smith |
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| 1880-1889 |
John Naylor |
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| 1891-1902 |
George Field |
Choir gallery built. Vice-chair Urban
District Council. |
| 1902-1908 |
Charles Henry Statham |
Christian Endeavour, Band of Hope and
Men's Institute, cricket club, gymnasium, bible classes |
| 1909-1917 |
Charles Llewellyn Allen |
Great War affects church badly |
| 1918-1924 |
William Stuart Scott |
revived membership, Choir & Sunday
School |
| 1924-1925 |
William Glenwr Morgan |
Priory Road manse purchased |
| 1926-1932 |
David Smith |
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| 1933-1935 |
Hubert David Oliver |
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| 1938-1944 |
Stanley Marcus Hayward |
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| 1945-1949 |
Eldred Ernest Marks |
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| 1949-1957 |
Frederick George Clarke |
lighting improved, new communion table
. Family Church started. |
| 1958-1961 |
Angus Armitage Grieve |
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| 1961-1962 |
Mrs Lisa Goertz |
First Women Lay Pastor at Abbey Hill |
| 1967-1970 |
John East |
Electric heating installed. Queens Road
manse purchased |
| 1972-1978 |
Peter Poulter |
Change to URC |
| 1979-1987 |
Jim Neary |
The project renovated schoolrooms and
pews |
| 1988- |
Donald Horsfield |
Greville Road manse purchased. Dare to
Dream project renovated church. |
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