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Corve Street

Non-Conformist

Chapel

The first Congregationalists in Ludlow
met in a house belonging to a Mrs Jones
at number 16 the High Street, which
had been licensed for religious worship

in October 1730. The following year
the house was stormed by a mob while
a service was in progress, and when
they could obtain no legal remedy for
the damages, the Corve Street chapel
was built with help from supporters in
London, in 1735. It was described in

1830 as being in a dilapidated state so
the congregation built a more suitable
meeting place - the Old Street
Independent (later Congregational)
Chapel, the history of which is told in

the July 2021 issue of The Tower.
Nonetheless, the old chapel in Corve
Street seems to have continued in use
until its demolition in the 1950s.
If not, there are plenty of
Attested on an people in Ludlow who are
Ordnance
Survey map of finding it hard to pay their fuel bills.

1884 (shown
here), it seems Ludlow Food Bank has taken over the
to have running of the Ludlow Fuel Poverty
survived at Fund. If you would like to help those in
least until 1954, need, please donate by BACS to:
but had gone

by 1969. Ludlow Baptist Church
Sort code - 40-30-30
Standing to the rear of properties on Account Number – 01274554
the west side of Corve Street, the Reference – Fuel Poverty Fund
chapel backed on to the bank of the Or by cheque payable to Ludlow Baptist
River Corve. Access must have been Church and marked on the back ‘Fuel

though the passageways between Poverty Fund’.
numbers 50, 51 and 52 at the bottom of
Corve Street.
Nick Ford

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