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Gallery: Wimborne Pictures
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This is the building in King Street that predated the one standing today. According to the Wimborne Methodist Church website:
"For 60 years Peter Hawke was a central figure in the Wimborne chapel serving as Local Preacher and Class Leader. He died in 1867 having outlived his wife and three of his children, but the legacy of his witness lived on and in 1869, the congregation having outgrown their premises even though they had been enlarged in 1846, a new church was built on rising ground in King Street. This building had galleries on three sides and could seat 650 people. It was an imposing building but rather impracticable and this was demolished in 1966 and the present church erected on the site and opened in October 1967."
©Wimborne Methodist Church ‑ used with permission
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