Church Mirco - 14117 Walsall United Reform Church
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The United Reformed Church
It began in Walsall with the formation of two Congregational churches, one in Bridge Street and another in Wednesbury Road.
Bridge Street Congregational Church was built by a group of Congregationalists who began to hold services in 1763 at a meeting house in Dudley Street. By 1790 this had become too small, and so work began on the new church under the control of the Rev. William Boddily. The new church, built on the south side of Bridge Street at a cost £2,125.1s.3d. opened on 14th September, 1791. The interior of the church was renovated in 1875, then in 1894 a new façade, designed by H. H. McConnal of Walsall, was added to extend the church closer to Bridge Street.
A Sunday school, the first in Walsall, had been started when the Dudley Street meeting house was still in use. It began in a room in Freer's Yard, High Street, but later moved to a warehouse in the Old Square. In 1818 new school rooms opened which were replaced by a purpose-built school in 1878-80.
The cache
It is a traditional and a small magnetic cache which blends in well.
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