SYDLING ST NICHOLAS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Church meeting minutes, Ministers, trustees, treasurer's accounts charities including Wellspring Charity, Sunday School register.

The first reference to a cottage chapel at Sydling St Nicholas is around 1760 when a John Reed attended meetings there. In 1775 a licence was issued for Presbyterian worship at the house of Elizabeth Devenish. A meeting house was erected around 1790. In 1798 the Revd Thomas Denny was invited by the County Association to become an itinerant minister serving in the Maiden Newton area and it appears that at this time Sydling and Maiden Newton chapels were united under his leadership. Sydling chapel is later referred to as Hope Congregational Chapel. In 1834 the congregation were forced to move and the old chapel was converted to a National School. A new site was granted and chapel built at Downs End. The church closed in 1970 and the building was sold, along with Nether Compton and Marnhull Congregational churches in 1976.