Queen's St Methodist New Connexion, Hurst

Methodist New Connexion church,
Queen's St,
Hurst
Lancashire

Cemeteries

The church has/had a graveyard. The burial registers have been lost but 125 monumental inscriptions have been recorded.

Church History

It was founded before 1841. It closed in 1965.

The Methodist New Connexion was formed in 1797 when it seceeded from the Wesleyan Methodists. In 1907 the Methodist New Connexion merged with the United Methodist Free Church and the Bible Christians to form the United Methodist Church.

In 1932 the United Methodists joined with the Wesleyan Methodists and the Primitive Methodists to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain.

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The church was located at OS grid reference SD949000. You can see this on maps provided by:

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[Last updated: Wednesday, 14-Feb-2007 11:07:06 GMT - Phil Stringer]

	We think we have the exact location of the church. If not please select the following link and please click on the exact location. The arrow should move to the point you have selected. Please cut and paste the URL displayed in the Address/Location box at the top of your screen and send it to us along with the name of the church. Click here.
	Do you have a picture of the church we could use? We don't link to existing pictures already on the web without permission from the copyright owner. If you have a .jpg or similar image then we can show it on this page. See the notes on taking church pictures.
	We only have the earliest date the church was mentioned in records. Do you know in which year it was founded?
	Have the Monumentals Inscriptions on the gravestones been transcribed and published, and by whom?
	Have you any details about the history of the church? Old directories frequently contain such information, and if you can transcribe such information and let us have it, we can add it to this page.
	Who holds the records of baptisms, marriages or burials? Have any transcripts of the registers been published?