Bible Christian Magazine Vincent Culliford

Rev. Vincent H. Culliford

THE parish of High Ham, Somersetshire, is the place of Mr. Culliford's birth. His parents were Bible Christians, and in 1873 he was brought to a knowledge of the truth during a revival which occurred in the Somerton Circuit. Almost immediately he began to preach to others the "great salvation." Shortly after he was sent to assist the late Mr. R. Seldon in the Chagford Circuit, and was successful in conducting a mission at Okehampton, at which over one hundred persons professed conversion. Thus encouraged, he entered the ministry in 1875, and has travelled at Hatherleigh, St. Columb, Mevagissey, St. Mawes, Week St. Mary, Tavistock, Crondall, Sittingbourne, Guernsey, Falmouth, Bridgwater, and Newton Abbot. During his stay at Bridgwater he filled for two years the position of superintendent of the Bristol District.

In addition to his work as preacher and pastor, Mr. Culliford has rendered the denomination acceptable service as architect. Possessing a taste for architecture, he has cultivated this side of his nature, and specimens of his work may be seen in Portloe, Tavistock, Guernsey, Stoke, Rainham, Gloucester, Small Heath (Birmingham), Knowle, and other chapels. Being so well adapted for this work, it was suggested at the Conference of 1904 that Mr. Culliford should be appointed Connexional architect, but in view of Methodist union it was thought desirable not to proceed further for the time. Generally successful in his work as preacher and pastor, perhaps his most successful years were those spent in Week St. Mary, Tavistock, Guernsey, and Falmouth.

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