Hull

HULL:
Hull-Hope Street Chapel Congregational Church History up to 1868.

This chapel was erected in 1797 by some friends of Rev. SAMUEL BARNARD, who had been for some time minister of New Dagger Lane Chapel, in Lady Huntingdon's Connexion. Mr. Barnard published many separate sermons, and engaged in a controversy on Baptism. He resigned in 1800, and removed to Sheffield. (After Mr. B. left Hull, the pulpit at New Dagger Lane was occupied by Rev. JOSIAH J. RICHARDS, an energetic preacher. He removed to London, and died at Bath. He was succeeded by

• Rev. J. SPRY and Rev. SAMUEL LANE. The chapel was then sold to the Episcopalians, and the Mariners' Church now stands on its site.)
• 1801. Rev. JOHN MORLEY. Mr. M. was baptized by Rev. A. Kinsman, in the Tabernacle House Moorfields, London, 1770. He entered the ministry under the sanction of Lady Huntingdon, and preached for some time in her chapels. He was ordained as an Independent at Alfrid (Lincolns.), in 1797. He removed, on account of health, to Thorngumbald, a village about six miles from Hull. In 1801 he accepted an invitation to Hope Street, where he continued to preach till 1850. He died 1864, at the advanced age of 94.
• 1855. Rev. HENRY OLLERENSHAW, from Idle, the present minister (in 1868).
• A chapel was opened in Holderness Road in 1841, of which Rev. EBENEZER MORLEY was the pastor.
• He left Hull for Brentford in 1843, when the use of the chapel was discontinued by Congregationalists.
• He died in London, 1862.

NOTES:-
* Aided by Rev. J. Sibree.