138 Main St Mount Hermon Chapel Blue Plaque 04

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138 Main St Mount Hermon Chapel Blue Plaque 04
138 Main St Mount Hermon Chapel Blue Plaque 04
138 Main St Mount Hermon Chapel Blue Plaque 04
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138 Main St Mount Hermon Chapel Blue Plaque 04
Date
28/10/2014
Creator
Don Barrett
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Blue Plaque unveiled Oct 2014 by Addingham Civic Soc.
This commemorates Pastor William Kendall Gale who, as a student, did good work and greatly helped in raising funds for a planned extensive renovation of the chapel. In 1900 he left to join the Congregational Ministry and in 1908, with his wife the former Edith Gaunt, of Ilkley, went to Madagascar for the London Missionary Society, establishing over 250 churches and many schools in that country. He wrote ‘I regard my pastorate at Mount Hermon as one of the great and happy times of my Ministerial life and am very grateful for the opportunity the church gave me to preach the gospel of Christ and fulfil my call’.
The chapel was built in 1861 as one of three Methodist chapels in the village - the others being the Primitive Methodist Chapel, which is now the Memorial Hall, and the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel at the top of Chapel Street, which is now housing. The present Methodist Church is in the former school building.
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