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Churches and religious bodies: Non-Christian religions

A History of the County of Chester

… Henry Bunbury, Bt. 2 By the 1750s Chester had a lodging house for Jewish pedlars, and there was at least one settled … formed later in the century and met at first in a private house. It rented a room in Union Hall, Foregate Street, in …

Churches and religious bodies: Other churches

A History of the County of Chester

… Meetings were held in Pepper Street 192536, at Forest House in Love Street 193640, and in rooms above the Falcon … rooms at premises in St. Werburgh Street in 1940, a house in White Friars later in the 1940s, no. 3 Newgate …

Churches and religious bodies: Protestant Nonconformity

A History of the County of Chester

… conventicle, numbering as many as 100, met at the house of yet another local ejectee, Thomas Harrison, the … a Presbyterian ejected from Backford in 1662, who took a house in Chester in which he held well attended meetings … Dissenting meeting rooms was that in White Friars, in the house of Anthony Henthorn, a sugar merchant, to which William …

Churches and religious bodies: Roman Catholicism

A History of the County of Chester

… the Fitzherberts of Swynnerton Hall (Staffs.), who had a house in Northgate ward. The number of Catholics, probably … typically from Hooton Hall in Wirral or the Fitzherberts' house. From 1758, however, an almost continuous series of … of Jesus, who ran schools from their convent in Dee House, Little St. John Street, from 1854 to 1925, when they …

Churches and religious bodies: The collegiate church of St John

A History of the County of Chester

… restricted burial there to the brethren and poor of that house. The nuns of Chester were permitted to bury within … chancel aisle and the south transept; perhaps a chapter house, in the 16th century it was described as the house of the 'church priests'. 91 After its completion, …

Churchwardens' accounts: 1420-76