First and Last Loves by John Betjeman

Author:John Betjeman [John Betjeman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571286928
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-05-13T04:00:00+00:00

Mawgan-in-Meneage, Cornwall. Interior: Luxurious Lombardic Italianate woodwork. Table below the pulpit. Flowers are a twentieth-century innovation, herald of liturgical movement in much recent Nonconformity.

The Baptists roused themselves in the late eighteenth century when they started their great missionary effort. The General Baptists (not to be confused with the Strict and Particular Baptists, who are small and Calvinistic) are the largest body of Nonconformists in the world and their largest following is in America. In England the Baptists made their greatest progress in the 1860’s, when Spurgeon was one of the most famous men in England. They increased threefold. Their new churches had some of the traditionalism of the Congregationals. They usually built large classic conventicles of which that at Newington Butts was, as it were, the cathedral. Their architecture has never been sufficiently studied and it would be a good thing if the Baptist Historical Society were to produce a record of their chapels as thorough as that produced by the Unitarians.

Plymouth Brethren are one of the few Nonconformist bodies still increasing. They are divided among themselves, but their meeting places can be distinguished from others by the board which generally says

THE LORD’S DAY.

Breaking of Bread, 11 a.m.

The Gospel will be preached here (God Willing) 6.30 p.m.

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