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Old Baptist Chapel, Tewkesbury white plaque

Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

The Old Baptist Chapel & Burial Ground. The Old Baptist Chapel in Church Street was originally a domestic dwelling built around 1458. From the mid-seventeenth century onwards, members of the persecuted early Baptist movement began to use it for secret and illegal religious meetings. Soon after the A

ct of Toleration (1689), the building was converted from a home to a recognisable place of worship, and was in regular use up until 1805 when the Baptists moved to a new church in Barton Street. Today

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