The Chapel

Non Conformity

Stephen Bent's house was used as a meeting-place for dissenters in 1716. Another house was licensed in 1818.
The former Congregational Chapel bears an inscription stating that it was built at the expense of George Hudson in 1811. The Leicestershire and Rutland Congregational Union was, in 1929, authorized to sell the property and apply the proceeds to support the chapel at Burton Overy. Little Stretton Chapel had then been disused for some time. It is a small red-brick building, slate-roofed and with square-framed windows, in use in 1960 as a Young Farmers' Club. It is now (2003) used as a meeting hall for the villagers.

The Plaque Above The Chapel Door

Transcription

FREE CHAPEL
Frustra Laborat, qui omnibus placere studet
This HOUSE of PRAY'R is set apart
For all who join in hand and heart
To worship GOD above.
Where party names shall cease to be
And all shall join in unity
To sing redeeming love.

Erected at the expense of GEORGE HUDSON. A.D.1811