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Hendon Methodist church

In the early 19th century (about the time of the Battle of Waterloo, 1815) Henry Burden the son of a farmer in Dorset came up to London by stage coach to find work.

He had become a Christian a few years earlier and started attending a small Methodist Chapel in Twickenham. He worked as a gardener and later obtained the job of gardener to the vicar of Hendon and moved there with his wife in 1820.

He started to preach in the open air and held bible study and prayer meetings in his own small home in Brent Street. Increasing numbers led to the building of a small chapel at the ¨Bottom of Egerton Gardens. In 1828, it was recognised as a Wesleyan Methodist place of worship. He later had a small cottage built next to the chapel where he lived for the rest of his life. In 1891, a typical non-conformist chapel was built on the present site. By then, Henry Burden had died 2 years earlier at the ripe old age of 96. In 1910 an extension to the chapel was built to accommodate the growing Sunday School. The extension was eventually called the Henry Burden Hall (or ‘institute’).
In 1936, the chapel was demolished and replaced by a new one built in a ‘Art Deco’ style and opened in 1937. After World War II, it continued to serve the local community until falling membership numbers led to the sale of the ‘Institute’ in 1982.

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