Lewin’s Mead, Bristol, Unitarian

Lewin’s Mead, Bristol, Unitarian – Upon the appointment of William Richards in 1751, Thomas Wright was chosen as his assistant. When Richards resigned in 1768, Wright became pastor, and in 1770, J. P. Estlin (1747-1817) came as his assistant.  In 1791 Wright requested that Estlin be made joint pastor.  [It was at this time that Estlin must have thought about having George Dyer come to Bristol to assist him.] In 1797 Wright died, and John Rowe became Estlin’s assistant.  Estlin died in 1817, and was succeeded by Lant Carpenter from Exeter; in 1832 R. B. Aspland came (11). The church also operated a school in Stokes Croft  from the 1720s (13). See Christopher James Thomas, Some Account of the Rise and Progress of the Ancient Society of Protestant Dissenters, Worshipping in Lewin’s Mead, Bristol (Bristol:  Stephens & Eyre, 1891).