Emmanuel Church (Lady Huntingdon Connexion), Margate, Kent, England

Notes:


A Lady Huntingdon's Connexion Church, known as the Zion Chapel.

In 1802 the Countess built the Zion Chapel "in a field beyond Union Crescent" which later became the first place of worship in Margate to be lit by gas; it was in Long Mill Lane, now Victoria Road. This Chapel was demolished in 1881 to make way for the New Emmanuel Church and Graveyard in 1881., which was in Addington Square part of Victoria Road.



The Zion Chapel now:

This chapel of 1882 is where my great grandfather (Herbert Goatham) married for the second time, but it wouldn't then have looked quite like this; In 1942 a bomb fell nearby, the blast from this badly damaging the front of the Church, the soft brick facade of which was badly peppered by bomb fragments, while the tower and steeple at the south-eastern corner suffered most, causing their subsequent removal.



A fuller and interesting account of the history of the Zion Chapel can be found here.

Church or Cemetery : Latitude: 51.38638398842732, Longitude: 1.386846899986267