Potted History of Minshull United Reformed Church Minshull Vernon
Nonconformism in Minshull goes back at least to Cromwell’s Commonwealth. During that period two Presbyterian Ministers and one Independent Minister were the incumbents at Church Minshull until the restoration of Charles 11.
Our Church was founded by the Jackson brothers of Minshull Hill House in 1806. By 1808 there were eleven members. Our Chapel was opened in 1810.
Cross Lanes in those days was literally that. A path at the side of Chapel Farm that leads to Warmingham still forms a cross-roads with the other three roads. The Chapel was in a very strategic position, because within a very short time the Sunday school had between 80 and 100 pupils. Not surprising as there were no state schools. Sundays must have been very hectic with all those children plus their parents, the latter probably catching up with local gossip and the progress of the Napoleonic wars. Not a lot changes, only the name of the wars.
1906 saw our Centenary year. Extensive renovation work was carried out and the Chapel re-opened with 400 people sitting down for tea in a marquee in an adjoining field. People would have travelled long distances, many by horsepower. The original stables are still here with chains to tether the horses and a saddle hook on the wall.
Minshull Vernon W.I. started at Cross Lanes in 1938.
We are proud of the fact that we are still using the same building erected 200years ago.
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