NONCONFORMITY.
Four recusants were listed
in St. Leonard's Forest in 1625. (fn. 74)
There was at least one Quaker at Bewbush in the
1650s, and on one occasion before 1661 the Horsham
meeting was held in Lower Beeding. (fn. 75)
A Particular Baptist chapel on the north side of
Mill Lane at Crabtree was built in 1835, the premises
serving also for a day school in 1851. On Census
Sunday in the latter year 50 attended the morning
and 60 the afternoon service. Both then (fn. 76) and later
the minister was non-resident. (fn. 77) The chapel was
still used in 1874, but services had ceased by 1896. (fn. 78)
There was no chapel at Colgate in 1875, when the
three families of dissenters who lived there attended
chapels at Horsham or Handcross (in Slaugham). (fn. 79)
A small brick Baptist chapel seating 100 was built
there in 1890, and survived in 1909. (fn. 80)
Footnotes
| 74 |
Cal. Assize Rec. Suss. Jas. I, p. 153. |
| 75 |
S.A.C. lv. 79, 82, 85. |
| 76 |
P.R.O., HO 129/87/2/2/5. |
| 77 |
W.S.R.O., Ep. II/14A/1 (1856). |
| 78 |
O.S. Map 6", Suss. XXV (1879 and later edns.); cf.
W. Suss. Gaz. 2 Oct. 1975. |
| 79 |
W.S.R.O., Ep. II/14A/1 (1875). |
| 80 |
Kelly's Dir. Suss. (1895, 1909); O.S. Map 6", Suss.
XIV. NW. (1899 edn.). |