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[004478] [Pew Ticket] Pew Ticket for the Islington Chapel. No Place: No Publisher, 1856. First Edition. 48mo. Unbound. Ticket. Good. Double sided lithographic ticket, approximately 60mm x 85mm in size

Foxed and lightly browned, minor rubbing to corners

A sitting ticket for pew two, number twenty-four at Islington Chapel, dated 1856. The reverse exhorts that renewals should be “within three weeks after each Quarter-day, or they will be considered vacant”

An unidentified church, almost certainly non-conformist. “Some nonconformist churches, like Anglican ones, retained social distinctions in their seating in the early 20th century as in the 19th. The division in Islington chapel was one of the reasons why W. H. Dorman left and joined the Brethren in 1838: a brass trellis screen marked off the pews for the middle class, who also sat several inches higher than the poor, and gates at each end of the aisles shut out those who could not pay. Most chapels and churches of the leading sects still used seat-holding” A. P. Baggs, Diane K. Bolton, Patricia E. C. Croot, Islington: Protestant Nonconformity, in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8, Islington and Stoke Newington Parishes, ed. T. F. T. Baker, C. R. Elrington ( London, 1985)