{"id":3587,"date":"2017-01-10T12:52:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=3587"},"modified":"2020-08-09T19:04:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T18:04:29","slug":"richmonds-congregational-church-vineyard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/history-of-richmond\/richmonds-congregational-church-vineyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond&#8217;s Congregational Church in The Vineyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3383\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3383\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/coachtrip\/churches1913\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3383\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3383\" class=\"wp-image-3383 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/churches1913-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"churches1913\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Congregational Church and St Elizabeth of Portugal pictured on an old postcard in 1913<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can now read, on this website,&nbsp; articles by Peter Flower on the church&#8217;s history of the Congregational Chapel in The Vineyard (now the Vineyard Life Church):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/history-of-richmond\/thomas-wilson-1764-1843\/\">Thomas Wilson, the 19th-century businessman and philanthropist,<\/a> whose generosity led to the building of the church<\/li>\n<li>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/history-of-richmond\/richmonds-congregational-church-vineyard\/pleasant-sunday-afternoons-late-victorian-richmond-glimpse-1893-94\/\"> story of the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Society<\/a> that, in providing services in the late 1890s that were &#8220;bright, brief and brotherly&#8221; was very successful in meeting its aim of&nbsp; &#8220;bringing in &#8220;those who were not connected with any place of worship&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/history-of-richmond\/richmonds-congregational-church-vineyard\/preacher-red-hair\/\">preacher with red hair<\/a>&#8221; who addressed the Congregational Church in 1876 and who Peter believes may have been the artist Vincent van Gogh<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/history-of-richmond\/richmonds-congregational-church-vineyard\/revd-henry-beresford-martin-1808-1844-a-remarkable-young-victorian-ministe\/\">The Revd Henry Beresford Martin (1808-1874),<\/a> the Victorian church&#8217;s remarkable young minister<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/history-of-richmond\/richmonds-congregational-church-vineyard\/story-war-peace-vineyard-congregational-church-richmond\/\">the church&#8217;s First World War memorial and the stories of those recorded on it<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/history-of-richmond\/richmonds-congregational-church-vineyard\/women-history-vineyard-church-richmond\/\">the role of women in leadership at the Vineyard Church<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/history-of-richmond\/richmonds-congregational-church-vineyard\/the-victorian-burial-plot-of-the-vineyard-chapel-from-graveyard-to-garden\/\">The Victorian burial plot of the Vineyard Chapel &#8211; from graveyard to garden<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4497\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Elsie-Chamberlain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4497\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4497\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Elsie-Chamberlain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Elsie-Chamberlain.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Elsie-Chamberlain-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Chamberlain, the Vineyard Congregational Church&#8217;s first female minister<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can now read, on this website,&nbsp; articles by Peter Flower on the church&#8217;s history of the Congregational Chapel in The Vineyard (now the Vineyard Life Church): Thomas Wilson, the 19th-century businessman and philanthropist, whose generosity led to the building of the church The story of the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Society that, in providing services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1362,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3587","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6103,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3587\/revisions\/6103"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}