United Brethren (England)
- To be distinguished from the United Brethren in England
The United Brethren were a group of former
In the mid-1830s, a group of approximately 600 Primitive Methodists led by Thomas Kington[1] left the Primitive Methodism movement and established an independent religious organization, which they called the United Brethren. The church was divided into many small congregations scattered among the Three Counties, with 50 designated preachers for the group. In 1836, the United Brethren built the Gadfield Elm Chapel, near Ledbury.
In March 1840, Latter Day Saint
The United Brethren's Gadfield Elm Chapel was converted into a Latter Day Saint chapel, and today it is the oldest extant chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the world.[2]
Notes
- ^ Recorded as "Thomas Kington" by Wilford Woodruff. The name on the gravestone is also listed as "Thomas Kington". A notebook maintained by Thomas Kington's wife and daughter also lists the family name as Kington. An article written by a former United Brethren member Job Smith gives the name as Kington. The Bodenham Parish christening records for the Church of England give the name as Kington. Later historians have sometimes misspelled the name as Knighton or Kingston.
- ^ "Do you know where the oldest Mormon chapel in the world is?: Gadfield Elm chapel is in our two counties", BBC News, 2007-03-23.
References
- James B. Allen, Deseret Book, 1992)
- James B. Allen and Malcolm R. Thorp, "The Mission of the Twelve To England, 1840–41: Mormon Apostles and the Working Classes", BYU Studies, vol. 15, no. 4 pp. 1–23 (Summer 1975)
- ISBN 1-4325-1702-3
- Tim B. Heaton, Stan L. Albrecht, and J. Randal Johnson, "The Making of British Saints in Historical Perspective", BYU Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 119–135 (Spring 1997)
External links
Media related to Benbow's Pond, Castle Frome, Herefordshire at Wikimedia Commons
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