Inghamite Chapel, Wheatley Lane

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334334

Reference identifier

EBU-N18-J79-3-1

Title

Inghamite Chapel, Wheatley Lane

Place

Wheatley Lane

General notes

The church was built in 1850 as the first Inghamite church and is the last remaining one in the country. Its founder, Benjamin Ingham, was born at Ossett, near Leeds in 1712. He was educated at Batley Grammar School and Queen’s College Oxford. Ingham was ordained as an Anglican minister in 1735. He went with John Wesley on a mission to Georgia in the USA spending 13 months there. Ingham had a conversion experience in North America and after his return to England he became Vicar of Ossett, preaching in the area between Halifax and Leeds where he enjoyed great success. Later he was prohibited from church pulpits in the Diocese of York for his non- conformist views. During the early years of his evangelical ministry, he was strongly influenced by the Moravian Christians from Hernhut, in Germany. Having encountered a group of Moravians during his Georgian mission, he later visited them at their settlement at Hernhut. He joined them and placed his 50 small societies in Yorkshire under their control. During the later 1740s, Ingham began to drift away from the Moravians. In 1753, he severed his connection with them and the following year set up a new organisation whose discipline was based on that of the Moravians but was less strict. In 1755 there were at least 80 Inghamite societies, mostly in Yorkshire and Lancashire.

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Year of image

Mid 20th Century

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