Ley Hill - Churches

Churches

The first church in Ley Hill was the Baptist church which dates back to meetings in 1786. The Chapel was built in 1833, as a branch of the Lower Baptist Church in Chesham (now Trinity Baptist), and it closed in 1908 when the people joined the Methodist church.

The Methodist church was founded in 1841 as part of the Primitive Methodist tradition and used to meet in local houses. The first chapel was built in 1846. The current chapel on the Green which was built in 1887. Today the church has an evangelical congregation of all ages, with activities for young and old.

The village has an Anglican Church called St George's at Tyler's Hill which was built in 1871. The Bangay Rooms, named after Miss Bessie Bangay, an active member of the church from 1910 until her death in 1987, are the location of the local Brownie meetings. Miss Bessie Bangay was one of the first female Anglican lay readers in England (called Bishop's Messengers) when she was licensed in 1917, she used to run a branch of the church at the Black Cat pub in Lye Green.

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