Tabernacle welcomes local historians

Trustees of the Kingswood’s Grade I Listed Whitfield Tabernacle were pleased to recently welcome members of the Kingswood History Society when they visited their partly restored building. ‘We enjoyed being visited by a group of interested and well informed local residents’ said Trust Chair Anthony Hick.  ‘They asked good questions about our plans for the future use of the Tabernacle, and had some good ideas about how we might promote the project’. Trustees were pleased that the local history group included some members who had belonged to the former Whitfield Building Preservation Trust that had been very supportive of the current Trust when it was formed in 2017. ‘We’re all trying to play our part in reminding Kingswood about its interesting and significant past, but our priority now is to finish the development of the building so that it can benefit the community where it has stood since 1741’ said Revd. Hick.‘