Dish, alms dish

Alms dish, one of a set of three (see also A7524 and A7524), inscribed in the centre ‘WESLYAN CHAPEL HOXTON’. No marks. Date: early 19th century.

‘The Hoxton Academy Chapel built in Hoxton Street in 1796, developed such a large congregation that it had to be completely rebuilt - ten years later - to house 1,500 people. A purpose built Sunday School (the first of its kind) was added in 1814. Here, every Sunday, six or seven hundred children got some sort of elementary education. The poorest were supplied with cast-off clothes, whilst the best-behaved were rewarded with special lessons in writing and arithmetic. A Sunday school survived on the site, in Hoxton Street, till it was bombed in 1941- T. Coombs, 1975 p.39.