CHURCH AND CHAPEL

Victorian Nonconformity

The Chapel

Dissent

• Congregationalists
  • self-governing local church
  • "gathered church" vs. parish
• Baptists
  • “The magistrate is not by virtue of his office to meddle with religion." (17th c. confession of faith)
  • adult decision/baptism
• Quakers
  • lay ministers/women
  • no sermon/music/art
• Unitarians
  • Rejection of deity of Christ/Trinity

Methodism

• Wesleyan
• Primitive 1811
• Others, united as Free Methodists 1857

Test & Corporation Acts

• 1828 Repealed

Births, Deaths, Marriages

• Civil Registration 1837

Church Rates

• Edward Miall
• The Nonconformist 1841
• "The Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant Religion"

Political Nonconformity

• 1843 Education Act
• Wesleyan opposition
• Anti-State Church Association 1844
• Disestablishment

1851 Census of Religion

Wesleyan Methodism

• No Politics
• Anti-Catholic
• Anti-slavery

Wesleyan Conference (annual)

• Jabez Bunting
• "The Methodist Pope"
• Edmund Grindrod
• Lay preachers
• Primitive Methodists 1811
• Fly Sheets Controversy 1844-1849
• United Methodist Free Church 1857

Nonconformist politics

• Civil disabilities
• Church rates
• Education
• Disestablishment?

Nonconformist philanthropy

• Mission halls
• Ragged School Union 1844

Temperance movement

• Feminism
• Taking the pledge
• Children
• Band of Hope 1847
• United Kingdom Alliance 1853
  • Local Option

What was "Nonconformity"?

Why was it important?

What issues brought them together in the 1840s?

Why was Methodism disrupted?

Why was temperance an issue important to women?

What did the temperance movement hope to achieve?