[Bristol interest] A Victorian silver church wine flagon by Martin, Hall & Co., London 1863,

[Bristol interest] A Victorian silver church wine flagon by Martin, Hall & Co., London 1863, with a foliate knop finial to the domed cover, an S-scroll handle terminating in a shield, the straight-tapered body engraved with a Cross Fleuree and ‘This Do In Remembrance Of Me’ within a wreath, on a moulded foot, engraved beneath ‘Presented by the Ladies of the Lewins Mead Congregation in the 22nd Year of the Ministry of the Revd. William James and the 7th Year of the Revd. R. C. Jones. December 1863’, 35.5cm (14in) high, 1400g (45 oz) Lewin’s Mead Unitarian Chapel is one of the oldest surviving non-comformist chapels in the country. Lewin’s Mead Meeting was established as a Presbyterian society in the early 1690s, with Mr. John Weekes as the first minister. Early meetings were held in the room of a private house, but by 1706, the date of the earliest deed of the Lewin’s Mead premises, a meeting house and Young Men’s meeting room were in existence. The Old Meeting House was demolished in 1787 and the present building erected the following year.