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Upper Meeting House, Newbury, Presbyterian
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Upper Meeting House,
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It was founded before 1763. It closed after 1960.
Presbyterian, later Unitarian, meeting house built beside the river Kennet in 1697, it ceased to be used in the 1940s, and was pulled down in 1960. More information about this church may be available from Church History, by clicking on the church name above and/or on the place name at the top of this page. If you can help by providing corrections or additional information, then please follow the instructions at the bottom of this page under "Help required". This church has an entry in the Religious Census of 1851.
The Presbyterian church was influenced by Calvinism which rejected bishops and believed that the church should be governed by a hierarchy of general assembly, synod, presbytery and kirk sessions attended by ministers and elders of equal rank. Presbyterianism flourished in the 17th and early 18th centuries but in the later 18th century many Presbyterian churches adopted Unitarianism.
In 1972 the Presbyterian Church of England merged with the Congregational Church to form the United Reformed Church.
See Church Records.
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