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United Reformed Church Cemetery

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Location	:	Bourne End, Wycombe District, England
Coordinate	:	51.5769930, -0.6972670
Description	:	The Church at Cores End was founded in 1768. Disenchantment with the Established Church has a long history in South Buckinghamshire. A group of local parishioners formed a 'Conference Society' and met in each other's homes for Bible study and prayer. Grace Grove and her family who lived at Cores End Farm and owned about 170 acres of land, were active members of this group. Thomas Grove, her grandson, who had been orphaned and brought up by Grace, decided when still a young man to become a preacher. In 1767 he began his studies for ordination into the Church of England... Read More	The Church at Cores End was founded in 1768. Disenchantment with the Established Church has a long history in South Buckinghamshire. A group of local parishioners formed a 'Conference Society' and met in each other's homes for Bible study and prayer. Grace Grove and her family who lived at Cores End Farm and owned about 170 acres of land, were active members of this group. Thomas Grove, her grandson, who had been orphaned and brought up by Grace, decided when still a young man to become a preacher. In 1767 he began his studies for ordination into the Church of England at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. While there, along with five other students, was accused of preaching in a barn and offering up impromptu prayers. After a 'trial' he and the other five students were expelled from St. Edmund Hall. Thomas Grove returned to Cores End in 1768 and supported by his family and friends began to preach. The family farm house in Hawks Hill soon became too small to hold the increasing number of people attracted to his services. A barn at the rear was brought into use as a temporary chapel. Twice the barn was enlarged to accommodate as many as 300 people who came to hear him preach. Set in a boundary wall of the church graveyard is a tablet inscribed, 'This wall is part of the barn in which the founder of the Church, the Rev. T. Grove first held services, 1768'. By the end of Thomas Grove's ministry at Cores End in 1778, sixty nine members had been enrolled. This informal gathering was constituted as an independent (later Congregational) Church. Thomas English succeeded Grove and oversaw the building of the first chapel in 1781 on ground given by the Grove family. However, as one of the inscriptions on the front of the present church informs us, that chapel was taken down and rebuilt in 1804 by public subscription. This building was further extended and refitted in 1881, with schoolrooms being added to the rear slightly earlier in the 1860's. Recent alterations in 2004 included, a spacious entrance area, a new stained glass window above the doorway, along with modern lighting and new carpeting. The church changed its name again in 1972 and became Cores End United Reformed Church.

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Latitude: 51.5769930
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