| Description | The charitable body that constituted the Trustees of the Old Meeting House was established with the founding of the Old Meeting in 1689. The earliest records date from the late eighteenth century. Early meetings tended to take place in a public house called 'The Dog', or alternatively Freeth's Coffee House. This was an establishment also frequented by the New Meeting House Vestry Committee, with both churches having a history of mutual cooperation, particularly after the destruction of both Meeting Houses during Priestley Riots of July 1791 (see Priestley Papers amongst the records of the New Meeting House, sub series UC 2/15). |