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54-401: Trinity Congregational Church may refer to: Trinity Congregational Church, Arundel Trinity Congregational Church, Christchurch Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Trinity Congregational Church . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

108-473: A Congregational pastor at Highbury Theological College , but did not finish the course which he began in 1848 and took up the position at Arundel after spending some time as a travelling preacher. His preaching was influenced by his poetry and did not suit the congregation's beliefs; he left in May 1853 after his stipend was cut, and turned to writing. The church founded several other congregations and chapels in

162-424: A Sunday school primarily teaching children Bible stories. She worked within the state church. Her Sunday school was supported by Peter Fjellstedt and grew quickly, with 250 students noted in 1853. Around 1851, Sunday schools were established by Foy's friends Betty Ehrenborg (1818–1880) and Per Palmqvist (1815–1887), brother of Swedish Baptist pioneers Johannes and Gustaf Palmquist . That year, Ehrenborg and

216-399: A background in education as a result of their occupations. Some churches require Sunday school teachers and catechists to attend courses to ensure that they have a sufficient understanding of the faith and of the teaching process to educate others. Other churches allow volunteers to teach without training; a profession of faith and a desire to teach is all that is required in such cases. It

270-570: A new church of their own in Arundel in 1980. Meanwhile, United Reformed services were held at Union Church until 1981, but the building was sold during the 1980s. Since 1990 it has housed the Arundel Arts, Crafts and Antiques Market, which has 16 stalls and is open daily. The name Nineveh House has been adopted since the building was converted to commercial use. It was designated a Grade II Listed building on 7 October 1974. The chapel

324-710: A separate room. Historically, Sunday schools were held in the afternoons in various communities, and were often staffed by workers from varying denominations. Beginning in the United States in the early 1930s and Canada in the 1940s, the transition was made to Sunday mornings. Sunday school often takes the form of a one-hour or longer Bible study , which can occur before, during, or after a church service . While many Sunday schools are focused on providing instruction for children (especially those sessions occurring during service times), adult Sunday-school classes are also popular and widespread (see RCIA ). In some traditions,

378-446: A similar arch flanked by capital -topped colonnettes (small medieval-style shafts). The stone used for the window and door surrounds, string-courses and buttresses was quarried at nearby Pulborough. Inside, the original gallery on the north wall (surrounding the entrance) survives, but those on the west and east sides have been removed. There was originally a garden at the front. Its surrounding walls and gate piers are included in

432-402: A stone string-course separating the gabled slate roof (enclosing attic space) from the body of the two-storey building. The eaves are supported on ashlar corbels . Below the gable, at the attic level, is a louvred round-arched window surrounded by roll-moulding . The first floor has three tall windows with round heads, and the centrally placed entrance at ground-floor level is set into

486-737: A week, sometimes for more than 13 hours a day. By 1785 over 250,000 children throughout England attended schools on Sundays. In 1784 many new schools opened, including the interdenominational Stockport Sunday School , which financed and constructed a school for 5,000 scholars in 1805. In the late-19th century this was accepted as being the largest in the world. By 1831 it was reported that attendance at Sunday schools had grown to 1.2 million. The first Sunday school in London opened at Surrey Chapel, Southwark , under Rowland Hill . By 1831 1,250,000 children in Great Britain, or about 25 per cent of

540-534: Is a former place of worship for Congregationalists and Independent Christians in Arundel , an ancient town in the Arun district of West Sussex , England. Protestant Nonconformism has always been strong in the town, and the chapel's founding congregation emerged in the 1780s. After worshipping elsewhere in the town, they founded the present building in the 1830s and remained for many years. Former pastors included

594-582: Is now known as Pulborough United Reformed Church. Amberley Congregational Chapel in Amberley was founded in 1867 and was used for worship until 1978. At Trinity Church, attendance at the time of the 1851 Census was over 100, and more than 100 children went to the Sunday school in the hall under the church. Ministers were housed in a manse further along Tarrant Street. The church became known as Arundel Union Church (or simply Union Church ) in 1966 when

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648-735: The Gloucester Journal , started a similar one in Gloucester in 1781. He wrote an article in his journal, and as a result many clergymen supported schools, which aimed to teach the youngsters reading, writing, cyphering (doing arithmetic) and a knowledge of the Bible. The Sunday School Society was founded by Baptist deacon William Fox on 7 September 1785 in Prescott Street Baptist Church of London. The latter had been touched by articles of Raikes, on

702-429: The läsare (Reader) movement . Always engaged in charitable work, she started a Sunday school not long after her spiritual awakening. However, it was soon closed due to the protests of clergy, who considered it "Methodist". Another attempt by Augusta Norstedt was noted around the same time. Sometime between 1848 and 1856, educator and preacher Amelie von Braun , also part of the revivalist awakening movement, started

756-478: The Congregational Church . The congregation thrived in the early 19th century: a Sunday school and a choir were established in the 1810s, and the building was extended in 1822. Membership was recorded as 150 in 1829. In 1836, a site adjacent to the chapel was acquired for a new chapel. The contract to design and built it was issued on 18 July 1836. London-based architect Robert Abraham won

810-404: The church used for this purpose. Many Sunday school classes operate on a set curriculum, with some teaching attendees a catechism . Members often receive certificates and awards for participation, as well as attendance. Sunday school classes may provide a light breakfast. On days when Holy Communion is being celebrated, however, some Christian denominations encourage fasting before receiving

864-404: The "gloomy" town hall and council offices of 1836 by Abrahams. The façade is of knapped flint with galletting and stone quoins , dressings, buttresses and string-courses . The side walls have red and grey brickwork and knapped flint. The front elevation is divided into three equal-width bays by full-height ashlar -faced stone buttresses in the form of pilasters , which terminate at

918-559: The 1730s and joined the Sabbatarian Ephrata Cloister in 1739, where he soon created the Sunday school for the impoverished children of the area, and published, on the Ephrata Press, a full textbook. Rev. Ira Lee Cottrell writes:"It is especially interesting to us to know that a Seventh Day Baptist Sabbath school was organized about 1740, forty years before Robert Raikes Sunday-school. This Sabbath school

972-565: The 17th century. Although East Sussex had greater numbers of Nonconformists and more chapels, some parts of West Sussex were hotbeds of Protestant dissent . Among these was the ancient hilltop town of Arundel , on the River Arun inland from the English Channel coast. Several groups founded congregations there in the 17th century, including Presbyterians , Quakers and Baptists . A period of decline for Nonconformist worship

1026-711: The 1860s. More Sunday schools were soon founded in the 1870s and 1880s: in Vaasa – including by the local Lutheran parish, in Kotka , Turku , Åland , Helsinki , Ekenäs , Hanko , and other cities. The first organized and documented Sunday school in the United States was founded in Ephrata , Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, by an immigrant from Germany, Ludwig Höcker, the son of a well-respected and influential Reformed Church Pastor and teacher in Westerwald. Ludwig immigrated in

1080-542: The English Heritage listing. They are of brick with inlaid flints and stone dressings and coping . The piers are also of stone from Pulborough, and have string-courses and decorative panelling. Sunday school Sunday school classes usually precede a Sunday church service and are used to provide catechesis to Christians, especially children and teenagers, and sometimes adults as well. Churches of many Christian denominations have classrooms attached to

1134-745: The Eucharistic elements. Sunday schools in Europe began with the Catholic Church's Confraternity of Christian Doctrine , founded in the 16th century by the archbishop Charles Borromeo to teach young Italian children the faith. Protestant Sunday schools were first set up in the 18th century in England to provide education to working children. William King started a Sunday school in 1751 in Dursley , Gloucestershire. Robert Raikes , editor of

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1188-672: The International Uniform Lesson Curriculum, also known as the "Uniform Lesson Plan". By the 1800s 80% of all new members were introduced to the church through Sunday school. In 1874, interested in improving the training of Sunday school teachers for the Uniform Lesson Plan, Miller and Vincent worked together again to found what is now the Chautauqua Institution on the shores of Chautauqua Lake , New York. Increasingly

1242-677: The Sunday school. In the United States the American Sunday School Union was formed (headquartered in Philadelphia) for the publication of literature. This group helped pioneer what became known as the International Sunday School Lessons. The Sunday School Times was another periodical they published for the use of Sunday schools. LifeWay Christian Resources , Herald and Banner Press, David C. Cook , and Group Publishing are among

1296-677: The United Kingdom in 1886. The earliest recorded Sunday school programme in Ireland goes back to 1777, when Daniel Delany , Roman Catholic priest started a school in Tullow, County Carlow. He set up a complex system which involved timetables, lesson plans, streaming, and various teaching activities. This system spread to other parishes in the diocese. By 1787 in Tullow alone there were 700 students, boys and girls, men and women, and 80 teachers. The primary intent of this Sunday school system

1350-628: The activities inside. By the 1970s even the largest Sunday school had been demolished. The locution today chiefly refers to catechism classes for children and adults that occur before the start of a church service. In certain Christian traditions, in certain grades, for example the second grade or eighth grade, Sunday school classes may prepare youth to undergo a rite such as First Communion or Confirmation . The doctrine of Sunday Sabbatarianism , held by many Christian denominations, encourages practices such as Sunday school attendance, as it teaches that

1404-467: The area during the 19th century, starting at Yapton in the 1840s: the present building, a Grade II-listed flint structure with an attached Sunday school, was put up in 1861 and now houses an Evangelical congregation with the name Yapton Free Church . Providence Congregational Chapel was founded at Marehill , near Pulborough , in 1845; its successor, built in the 1950s in Pulborough town centre,

1458-673: The boys and girls working in the factories could attend. Using the Bible as their textbook, the children learned to read and write. In 18th-century England, education was largely reserved for a wealthy, male minority and was not compulsory . The wealthy educated their children privately at home, with hired governesses or tutors for younger children. The town-based middle class may have sent their sons to grammar schools , while daughters were left to learn what they could from their mothers or from their fathers' libraries. The children of factory workers and farm labourers received no formal education, and typically worked alongside their parents six days

1512-548: The brothers traveled to London. The brothers, at least, reconnected with Scott, whom they knew from Sweden. In England, they studied the Methodists' Sunday schools and teaching methods, impressed by the number of students and teachers. There were over 250 children and 20 to 30 teachers; classes were taught by laypeople and included literacy training in addition to Bible lessons, singing, and prayer. Upon Palmqvist's return to Sweden, he invited 25 local poor children and founded

1566-547: The commission, and building work lasted from 1836 until 1838, when the new chapel was consecrated. The new building was larger and had a hall underneath, originally used as a schoolroom. Abraham was working on Arundel Town Hall at the same time, and the buildings have some similarities of design. George MacDonald , the Scottish poet and children's writer, became the pastor in 1850, but his views and sermons were unpopular and he resigned three years later. He had trained as

1620-819: The congregation of the Arundel Baptist chapel joined; this allowed their building in Arun Street to be closed and sold. The Congregational denomination merged with the Presbyterian Church of England and some smaller denominations in 1972 to form the United Reformed Church , which prompted the Baptist members of the congregation to split from the church in 1973 and join Angmering Baptist Church until they built

1674-539: The country among a number of denominations, with 23,058 officers and teachers and 317,648 students. The first Sunday schools in Finland were run by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland , with the first one founded in 1807. They were often for those who had not become literate. As a form of schooling, they were recommended by the state in 1853. Some Sunday schools gave vocational training in

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1728-650: The eligible population, attended Sunday schools weekly. The schools provided basic lessons in literacy alongside religious instruction. In 1833, "for the unification and progress of the work of religious education among the young", the Unitarians founded their Sunday School Association, as "junior partner" to the British and Foreign Unitarian Association , with which it eventually set up offices at Essex Hall in Central London . The work of Sunday schools in

1782-584: The entirety of the Lord's Day should be devoted to God; as such many children and teenagers often return to the church in the late afternoon for youth group before attending an evening service of worship. The first recorded Protestant Sunday school opened in 1751 in St Mary's Church, Nottingham . Hannah Ball made another early start, founding a school in High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , in 1769. However,

1836-582: The first Baptist Sunday school; the same year, Ehrenborg began a Sunday school as well, with 13 mostly Baptist and free-church students. Palmqvist was given £5 in financial support by the London Sunday School Association and used the money to travel to Norrland , home of a significant revival movement, to spread the idea of Sunday school there. The first Sunday school association in Sweden, Stockholms Lutherska Söndagsskolförening,

1890-569: The industrial cities was increasingly supplemented by " ragged schools " (charitable provision for the industrial poor), and eventually by publicly funded education under the terms of the Elementary Education Act 1870 ( 33 & 34 Vict. c. 75). Sunday schools continued alongside such increasing educational provision, and new forms also developed, such as the Socialist Sunday Schools movement, which began in

1944-473: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trinity_Congregational_Church&oldid=1240055710 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Trinity Congregational Church, Arundel Trinity Congregational Church , later known as Union Chapel ,

1998-474: The pioneer of Sunday schools is commonly said to be Robert Raikes , editor of the Gloucester Journal , who in 1781, after prompting from William King (who was running a Sunday School in Dursley ), recognised the need of children living in the Gloucester slums; the need also to prevent them from taking up crime. He opened a school in the home of a Mrs Meredith, operating it on a Sunday – the only day that

2052-541: The poet George MacDonald . Robert Abraham's distinctive neo-Norman/ Romanesque Revival building was converted into a market in the 1980s and has been renamed Nineveh House . The church is a Grade II Listed building . Protestant Nonconformism —Christian worship which stood apart from both the Established Anglican Church and Roman Catholicism —was successful and influential in Sussex from

2106-469: The precursors to a national system of education. The educational role of the Sunday schools ended with the Education Act 1870 , which provided universal elementary education. In the 1920s they also promoted sports, and ran Sunday school leagues. They became social centres hosting amateur dramatics and concert parties. By the 1960s, the term Sunday school could refer to the building and rarely to

2160-604: The problems of youth crime. Pastor Thomas Stock and Raikes have thus registered a hundred children from six to fourteen years old. The society has published its textbooks and brought together nearly 4,000 Sunday schools. In 1785, 250,000 English children were attending Sunday school. There were 5,000 in Manchester alone. By 1835, the Sunday School Society had distributed 91,915 spelling books, 24,232 New Testaments and 5,360 Bibles. The Sunday school movement

2214-637: The public elementary schools were handling literacy. In response the Sunday schools switched to an emphasis on Bible stories, hymn singing, and memorizing Biblical passages. The main goal was encouraging the conversion experience that was so important to evangelicals. Notable 20th-century leaders in the Sunday school movement include: Clarence Herbert Benson, Henrietta Mears , founder of Gospel Light, Dr. Gene A. Getz, Howard Hendricks , Lois E. LeBar, Lawrence O. Richards, and Elmer Towns . In Evangelical churches, during worship service, children and young people receive an adapted education, in Sunday school, in

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2268-526: The term "Sunday school" is too strongly associated with children, and alternate terms such as "Adult Electives" or "religious education" are used instead of "Adult Sunday school". Some churches only operate Sunday school for children concurrently with the adult worship service. In this case, there is typically no adult Sunday school. In Great Britain an agency was formed called the Religious Tract Society which helped provide literature for

2322-487: The trades; after 1858 they were also preparatory schools for further education held during the week. However, Sunday schools did not catch on until the later growth of free churches in the country as well as the establishment of public schooling, at which point they became a form of children's religious education. One of the earliest free-church Sunday schools was founded by sisters Netta and Anna Heikel in Jakobstad in

2376-425: The widely available published resources currently used in Sunday schools across the country. Sunday school teachers are usually lay people who are selected for their role in the church by a designated coordinator, board, or a committee. Normally, the selection is based on a perception of character and ability to teach the Bible, rather than formal training in education. Some Sunday school teachers, however, do have

2430-746: Was converted by George Scott , an influential Scottish Wesleyan Methodist preacher who worked in Sweden from 1830 to 1842 and was controversial due to his preaching in violation of the Conventicle Act . Within the Church of Sweden , however, based on the format of Methodist Sunday schools, he started several in Flykälen , Föllinge , Ottsjön, Storå , and Tuvattnet. Later, Mathilda Foy founded an early Sunday school in 1843–1844. Influenced by Pietistic revivalist preachers such as Scott, and particularly Carl Olof Rosenius , Foy found herself part of

2484-513: Was cross-denominational. Financed through subscription, large buildings were constructed that could host public lectures as well as provide classrooms. Adults would attend the same classes as the infants , as each was instructed in basic reading. In some towns, the Methodists withdrew from the large Sunday school and built their own. The Anglicans set up their National schools that would act as Sunday schools and day schools. These schools were

2538-494: Was founded by the established Anglican Protestant church in 1809. The Sabbath School Society of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland was founded in 1862. The concept of Sunday school in Sweden started in the early to mid-1800s, initially facing some backlash, before becoming more mainstream, as it was often intertwined with the growth (and eventual legalization) of free churches . The first documented Sunday school

2592-536: Was organized at Ephrata, Pa., by Ludwig Hocker among the Seventh Day Baptist Germans, and continued until 1777, when their room with others was given up for hospital purposes after the battle of Brandywine…". In New England a Sunday school system was first begun by Samuel Slater in his textile mills in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in the 1790s. In the mid-1860s philanthropist Lewis Miller

2646-545: Was registered for the solemnisation of marriages from April 1840 until its certification was formally revoked in August 1982. Robert Abraham's design represents a "brief appearance" of the Romanesque Revival style in the architectural history of Nonconformist chapels in Sussex. There are also elements of Neo-Norman architecture . Ian Nairn dismissed the building as "not good", and notes its similarity to

2700-520: Was reversed in the late 18th century, and a group of Independent Christians (who advocated Congregationalist polity ) began meeting in 1780. In 1784, they erected a chapel in Tarrant Street in the town centre. The congregation had early links with Presbyterianism and the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion , a localised Calvinistic sect, but by the 19th century the chapel was aligned with

2754-601: Was started in 1826 in Snavlunda parish, Örebro County , by priest Ringzelli, and was still active during the time of Pastor Lennart Sickeldal in the 1950s. Ringzelli was also an early organizer of school meals for students who lived far from the school or were from poor families. Carl Ludvig Tellström, later missionary to the Sámi people, made another early attempt to start a Sunday school around 1834. While in Stockholm, he

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2808-553: Was started in 1868. However, even despite the abolition of the Conventicle Act in 1858 and increasing religious freedom, there were still challenges: Palmqvist was reported to the Stockholm City Court by a priest in 1870 for teaching children who did not belong to his congregation, but was later acquitted. In Stockholm alone, there were 29 Sunday schools by 1871. By 1915 there were 6,518 Sunday schools in

2862-420: Was the inventor of the " Akron Plan " for Sunday schools. It was a building layout with a central assembly hall surrounded by small classrooms, conceived with Methodist minister John Heyl Vincent and architect Jacob Snyder . It was soon widely copied. John Heyl Vincent collaborated with Baptist layman B. F. Jacobs, who devised a system to encourage Sunday school work, and a committee was established to provide

2916-611: Was the teaching of the Catholic catechism and articles of faith; the teaching of reading and writing became necessary to assist in this. With the coming of Catholic Emancipation in Ireland (1829) and the establishment of the National Schools system (1831), which meant that the Catholic faith could be taught in school, the Catholic Sunday school system became unnecessary. The Church of Ireland Sunday School Society

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