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Cleveland Hall was a meeting hall in Cleveland Street, London that was a center of the British secularist movement between 1861 and 1878, and that was then used for various purposes before becoming a Methodist meeting hall. ==Building and location== Cleveland Hall was built with a legacy from William Devonshire Saull, an Owenite, and in 1861 replaced the John Street Institution as the London center of freethought. The hall was controlled by its shareholders, and these changed over time, so it was not always used for freethought purposes. The hall was at 54 Cleveland Street, Marylebone, north of Soho in an area with a large immigrant population. According to the ''Secular Review and Secularist'' in 1877 the hall was a large and commodious building with a historic repute in connection with secular propaganda. It was near Fitzroy Square, three minutes walk from the buses of Tottenham Court Road or from Portland Road Station. Another source described the location less kindly as in "Cleveland Street, a street lying in that mass of pauperism at the rear of Tottenham Court Road Chapel". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cleveland Hall, London」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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