Black plaque № 11532

Kendal, Halton, England, United Kingdom

UNITARIAN CHAPEL. This chapel was built in 1720 for a Presbyterian congregation dedicated to civil and religious liberty. It became prominent in the anti-slavery movement and openly Unitarian in the 1820s. In 1733 its first minister, Dr Caleb Rotherham, founded an academy in which he taught divinity

, science and advanced mathematics. The former manse north of the entrance was built 1781 and the chapel was restored in 1882.

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