Station Road, Knowle, Solihull, West Midlands B93 0HN

Knowle Independent

Chapel 3

A Sunday School was formed and religious tracts distributed on a loan-system among “nearly the whole population.”

There was no resident minister -  "Mr. Hood, the minister at Solihull, preached at Knowle regularly on Sunday afternoon, and on a weekday evening.”

Eventually the congregations declined until, finally, the chapel was closed. Then, in 1855, a sheet was addressed to and distributed among “the Inhabitants of Knowle and its vicinity”, expressing regret that the chapel in your village has long been closed, and on Sabbath-day, October 28th, 1855, we intend to reopen it for the public worship of God.” It was signed, “The Conductors of Public Worship in the Independent Chapel, Knowle.

Until 1876, Knowle’s chapel remained subsidiary to that at Solihull, but on 2nd January that year a minister, William Baker Row, together with his wife and eleven villagers, covenanted in company to form a separate cause in Knowle. According to the first Minute Book of the chapel, the male members of the congregation were by trade a boot-maker, a painter, a carpenter and a baker.

Knowle URC: Roll of Church Members 1876 -1929

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