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the subject. A room near the present Market Hall was first 

 used for Divine worship, and afterwards the Infant Society- 

 removed to another in Buckley. The next migration 

 was to the site of the present chapel at the Island ; then 

 occupied by a pretty looking cottage. This was bought and 

 turned into a preaching house, which soon became too small 

 for the worshippers. At this early stage a Sunday School 

 had been commenced, and was in so flourishing a condition 

 as to call for some special accommodation for the children, 

 beyond what the already enlarged structure would afford. 



After successive alterations and enlargements the house 

 was taken down, and, in 1 824, a chapel was built, which in 

 its turn gave place to the present much larger edifice, which 

 consists of a fair-sized, substantially-built chapel, with school 

 room and vestries on the ground floor. This was in 1849, 

 since which date the gallery has been extended along each 

 side, an organ has been introduced, and the accommodation 

 from time to time improved. The present congregation is 

 large enough on ordinary occcasions comfortably to fill the 

 chapel, and the Sunday School, consisting of nearly two 

 hundred children, loudly calls for some further addition to 

 the premises." 



The " Plymouth Brethren" have a Room at Salcombe, in 

 which their meetings] are held ; and we believe there is also 

 a small gathering of the body calling themselves the " Catholic 

 Apostolic Church." In August, 1 866, the Baptists commenced 

 holding their services in the Town Hall at Salcombe, and in 

 April, 1868, the Earl of Devon was applied to, and granted a 

 site on which they might build a chapel. The foundation 

 stone was laid on June 24th, 1869, by Mr. Peter Adams, of 

 Plymouth, and the chapel was opened June 22nd, 1871. At 

 the evening meeting, after the opening, the pastor, the Rev. 



