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List of Strict Baptist churches

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This is a list of Strict Baptist churches The term 'strict' refers to the strict or closed position held with regard to membership and communion. Such people are referred to as Strict and Particular Baptists.

Gospel Standard churches

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Many Strict Baptist churches are affiliated with and recognized by the publishers of the Gospel Standard,[1] a Strict Baptist magazine first published in 1835. Churches that align themselves with the Gospel Standard Magazine are known as "Gospel Standard Baptists" or "Gospel Standard Strict Baptists".[2][3]

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United Kingdom

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Bethel Chapel Allington, Wiltshire Built 1828[7]
Zoar Chapel Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Jireh Chapel Attleborough, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Hope Chapel Barton-le-Clay, Bedfordshire
Old Bexley Baptist Chapel Bexley Thumb
Ebenezer Chapel Biddenden, Kent Thumb The Chapel was built in 1880 by James Hickmott, a local farmer and a deacon at Tilden Chapel in Smarden. John Kemp of Wadhurst in Sussex was invited to become its first pastor.[8]
Providence Chapel Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
Providence Chapel Birkenhead
Bierton Strict and Particular Baptist Chapel Bierton, Buckinghamshire Thumb The church was formed in 1831 and the trust deed referred to its place of worship as a School Room.

This was enlarged in 1835. The witness signature on the trust deed is a Mr Warberton. Jr. The Bierton church became a listed Gospel Standard cause in 1982 Archived 2014-10-24 at the Wayback Machine [9] and the Gospel Standard Articles of Religion and Rules were adopted by the church. The final worship meeting at the chapel was held on 22 December 2002. And the trust deed was given to the Association of Grace Baptist Churches Limited who registered the property in their name in order to sell the chapel. The Chapel is now listed as a monument Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine and is a domestic dwelling

Hope Chapel Blackboys, East Sussex Thumb This red-brick Vernacular-style building was built in 1875. The walls are rendered. From its inception, it has catered for Gospel Standard Baptists.[10][11]
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Strict Baptist Chapel Blunsdon Hill, Wiltshire
Ebenezer Chapel Bodle Street Green, East Sussex Thumb An Independent Baptist congregation was founded here in 1835 by a Horsham-based preacher. The present chapel is aligned to the Gospel Standard movement and was built in 1864. It is timber-framed, partly weatherboarded and rendered, and has been extended several times. There is a gable above the entrance porch.[11][12][14][15]
Mount Zion Chapel Bournemouth Thumb Demolished by 2009 and later replaced by a residential property with a sign "Mount Zion, 7 Wootton Mount"
Zion Chapel Brabourne Lees, Kent Thumb
Salem Chapel Braintree, Essex
Galeed Chapel Brighton Thumb
Brixton Tabernacle Stockwell Rd, Brixton,

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 The church was started in 1867. The current (3rd) chapel, which was opened in 1975, is almost opposite the site of the previous chapel, now the skate-board park.
Rehoboth Chapel Bromley
Strict Baptist Chapel Broughton Gifford Thumb The Broughton Gifford Strict Baptist Chapel was founded in 1806. Dressed limestone, Welsh slate hipped roof. Entrance in gable end facing road. Two-storey, 3-window front with lean-to porch with double planked doors, round-arched fixed window either side, gallery over with three round-arched windows. Right and left returns have two round-arched windows with central mullions. Single-storey schoolroom attached to rear with 16-pane sashes and planked doors, rear window to chapel blocked. English Heritage Building ID: 433419
Zoar Chapel Canterbury Thumb
Salem Chapel Carshalton, Surrey
Old Baptist Chapel Chippenham Thumb
Strict Baptist Chapel Clifton
Strict Baptist Chapel Colnbrook
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Strict Baptist Chapel Coppice Thumb
Cranbrook Strict Baptist Chapel Cranbrook Thumb The Cranbrook Strict Baptist Chapel, is a Strict Baptist place of worship in the town of Cranbrook in the English county of Kent. The chapel was built in 1787. Grade II, ID 169067
Providence Chapel Croydon, Surrey Thumb Closed as a Strict Baptist Church in 2017 (source: picture description linked by clicking on picture); as at 2024 the home of Triumphant Global Ministries church.
Zoar Strict Baptist Chapel Dicker, East Sussex Thumb Originally called The Dicker Chapel, this 400-capacity building dates from 1837. On a main road in a remote spot, it serves a wide area and had extensive stables for worshippers arriving on horseback. The Classical-style stuccoed brick chapel, enlarged and refronted in 1874, has a pediment, porch and pilasters.[12][16]
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Providence Chapel East Peckham Thumb
Grove Road Strict Baptist Church Eastbourne Thumb J.J. Skinner's 1881 red brick and stone chapel replaced an earlier Strict Baptist place of worship, Marsh Chapel, which was founded in the first few years of the 19th century. Reordering was carried out inside in 2002. The church is aligned with the Gospel Standard movement.[12][19]
Strict Baptist Chapel Fenstanton
Providence Chapel Gravesend, Kent
Hope Chapel Great Yeldham, Essex Thumb Built in 1875, this red-brick Vernacular-style building is attached to a house. The walls are rendered. From its inception, it has catered for Gospel Standard Baptists.[10][11]
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Strict Baptist Chapel Grove Thumb
Bethel Chapel Guildford Guildford, Surrey Thumb The Bethel Chapel, The Bars, Guildford, is a Strict Baptist Chapel affiliated to the Gospel Standard group of Strict & Particular Baptist churches.[20] The Church was established in 1879 and the present building opened in 1910.[21] Bethel still adheres to its original Articles of Faith and worship is conducted much as it was a century ago.[22]
Zoar Chapel Handcross, West Sussex Thumb A round-windowed, red and yellow brick building of 1888 replaced the village's first Baptist chapel, first recorded in 1782.
Cave Adullam Chapel Haslingden, Lancashire Thumb
Ebenezer Chapel Haynes, Bedfordshire Thumb
Jireh Chapel Haywards Heath Thumb Sussex has many 19th-century Independent and Baptist chapels in this Vernacular style: a tiled, gabled roof, porch, and red-brick walls with round-arched windows. This example was built in 1879 by William Knight, a horticulturist who was also the chapel's first pastor. It is a Gospel Standard movement chapel.[12][23][24]
Ebenezer Chapel Heathfield (Broad Oak) Thumb An Independent Baptist congregation was founded here in 1835 by a Horsham-based preacher. The present chapel is aligned to the Gospel Standard movement and was built in 1864. It is timber-framed, partly weatherboarded and rendered, and has been extended several times. There is a gable above the entrance porch.[11][12][14]
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Strict Baptist Chapel Hedge End
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 Whilst not formally aligned to the Gospel Standard magazine, Hedge End Chapel currently shares a pastor with the Gospel Standard-affiliated Salem Chapel in Portsmouth. The website for the chapel is at hedgeendchapel.org.uk.
Ebenezer Chapel Horam, East Sussex Thumb Also known as Pick Hill Chapel, this small, isolated building was opened in 1873 to replace an earlier chapel founded in about 1849 by Eli Page. It has been aligned with the Gospel Standard Baptist movement since 1864. The Vernacular-style structure has an entrance porch.[12][13]
Hope Chapel Horsham Thumb Horsham's second Strict Baptist chapel had its origins in meetings in a public hall in March 1900. The congregation moved several times, but on 2 December 1903 their new red-brick square-windowed chapel on Oakhill Road was inaugurated, and worship has continued there ever since. The three founders were from Kent.
Providence Chapel Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire
Rehoboth Chapel Jarvis Brook Thumb This red- and blue-brick building dates from 1876. Its Gospel Standard Strict Baptist congregation, founded in 1852, maintains links with the Forest Fold chapel on the other side of Crowborough. Seceders from that chapel founded the Jarvis Brook cause in 1852; they met in a schoolroom at first.
Strict Baptist Chapel Lakenheath
Strict Baptist Chapel Lamberhurst Thumb
Mount Zion Chapel Leatherhead, Surrey Thumb
Ebenezer Chapel Leeds Thumb Ebenezer Particular Baptist Chapel, 15 Grove Lane, Headingley, Leeds LS6 4DP. Opened 1967. This replaced a chapel of 1917 at Mount Preston, which in turn replaced a chapel in the city centre opened in 1862 for a congregation then meeting in Rockingham Street,
Ebenezer Chapel Leeds Thumb 7 Rodley Lane, Rodley, Leeds LS13 No longer a place of worship
Zion Chapel Leicester
Strict Baptist Chapel Little Downham
Bethel Chapel Luton
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 An independent church at which Benjamin Ashworth Ramsbottom formerly preached as pastor from 1967 until 2021 and continued regularly until his death in January 2023. [25][26]
Ebenezer Chapel Luton
Priory Chapel Maidstone
Strict Baptist Chapel Manchester
Ebenezer Church [nl] Matfield Thumb
Mayfield Baptist Chapel Mayfield and Five Ashes, East Sussex Thumb This 250-capacity building has a much smaller congregation than in its 19th-century heyday, but remains in use. It has stood on its village-centre corner site since 1873, but Baptist worship in the Mayfield area has a much longer history.[12][27][28][29][30]
Ebenezer Chapel Melksham, Wiltshire Thumb The Ebenezer Chapel, is a Strict Baptist place of worship in the town of Melksham in the English county of Wiltshire. The chapel was built in 1835.[31] It has been a Grade II listed building since 1985.[32]
Hope Chapel Mount Bures
Kirkland Baptist Chapel Nateby, Lancashire, near Garstang Thumb The Strict Baptist cause at Nateby dates back to 1828 when four persons were baptized in a pond at Primrose Hill on 14 May 1828. The present chapel was built in 1877.
Ebenezer Chapel Newquay, Cornwall The Ebenezer Baptist Chapel is one of the oldest religious building in Newquay, and was founded in 1822.
Providence Chapel Northampton
Zoar Chapel Norwich, Norfolk
Hope Chapel Nottingham
Strict Baptist Chapel Oakington
Ebenezer Chapel Ossett, West Yorkshire
Salem Chapel Portsmouth Thumb Salem Chapel is in the Buckland area of the city. It was registered for the solemnisation of marriages in June 1970.[33]
Zion Chapel Prestwood, Buckinghamshire Thumb Strict Baptist Chapel, Prestwood. This neat-looking chapel, which dates from 1950, is situated in Kiln Road, Prestwood, HP16 9DH. The cemetery is across the road from the chapel.
Zoar Chapel Reading, Berkshire Thumb
Hope Chapel Redhill, Surrey Thumb
Ebenezer Strict Baptist Chapel, Richmond Richmond Thumb
Ebenezer Chapel Ripley, Surrey Thumb This chapel was built in 1812 and is still used for worship.
Hope Chapel Rochdale
Zoar Chapel Romford, Essex
Providence Chapel Rotherfield Thumb Baptist worship began in Rotherfield in 1823, but the congregation split in the 1850s and seceders founded Providence Chapel in 1858. After early difficulties, the cause prospered (whereas the original "Bethel Chapel" folded in the 1870s), and it has been part of the Gospel Standard movement since the 1890s. The red-brick, stone-quoined chapel has arched windows.[12][34]
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Bethel Chapel Rye, East Sussex Thumb This distinctive Neoclassical building—stuccoed, with the name bethel inscribed above the porch—retains the appearance it had in 1858, when it was built. Charlotte Smith, the wife of a former Mayor of Rye, founded it after experiencing a spiritual conversion.[12][35][38]
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Strict Baptist Church Scayness Hill Thumb The village's small Strict Baptist chapel dates from 1875 and was extended in 2008. The red-brick building, with round-headed, segmental-arched windows, stands just north of St Augustine of Canterbury Church. It is aligned with the Gospel Standard Baptist movement.[12]
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Hope Chapel Sedgley, West Midlands
Moden Hill Chapel Sedgley, West Midlands
Providence Chapel Shoreham by Sea Thumb This small stuccoed building, in a simple Classical style with deeply recessed windows, was opened in 1867 to replace a nearby meeting room. The chapel is aligned with the Gospel Standard movement.[42]
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Rehoboth Chapel Sible Hedingham, Essex
Ebenezer Baptist Church Silverhill, Hastings Thumb This small brick building on the Ponswood industrial estate was originally a Gospel Hall used by Plymouth Brethren. It is now aligned with the Gospel Standard Baptist movement.[43]
Bethel Chapel South Chard Thumb
Bethel Chapel South Moreton Thumb
Bethesda Chapel Southampton
Strict Baptist Chapel Southery
Southill Strict Baptist Chapel Southill, Bedfordshire Thumb Strict Baptist Chapel, Southill, Beds. The chapel was built in the High Street in 1805; the cause was founded in 1693.
Providence Chapel Staplehurst Thumb
Hope Chapel Stotfold, Bedfordshire Thumb
Little Zoar Chapel Studley
Swanwick Shore Strict Baptist Chapel Lower Swanwick Thumb The Swanwick Shore Strict Baptist Chapel was built in 1844. The chapel stands on the junction of Quay Lane and Bridge Road in the Swanwick Shore conservation area.
Strict Baptist Chapel Swavesey
Rehoboth Chapel Swindon Thumb
Jireh Chapel Tenterden, Kent Thumb
Providence Chapel Thurlstone
Hanover Chapel Tunbridge Wells, Kent Thumb
The Halve Strict Baptist Chapel Trowbridge The Halve Strict Baptist Chapel in Trowbridge is a Gospel Standard Chapel formed in the 1800s
Foresters Strict Baptist Chapel Uckfield Thumb The 1789 Baptist church in Uckfield, originally Strict Baptist, had a General Baptist pastor by the early 20th century. Strict Baptist members of the congregation seceded in 1920 and founded a new chapel next to Foresters Hall in the south of the town. The Gospel Standard movement is followed.[12][35]
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Strict Baptist Chapel Uffington, Oxfordshire Thumb
Wattisham Strict Baptist Chapel (not in The Gospel Standard)[clarification needed] Wattisham Thumb In 1780 a permanent chapel was built on the current site.[45] In 1825[46] it was replaced by the current building under the pastorate of John Cooper. [citation needed]
Bethel Chapel Wivelsfield, East Sussex Thumb The cause was founded in 1763 by members of a chapel at nearby Ditchling; Henry Booker and other worshippers seceded and began to meet at Wivelsfield after hearing a sermon by George Whitefield. Although some members of the new church soon returned to the Ditchling congregation, the cause thrived under Booker's leadership, and the present chapel—a building of "quiet and unassuming elegance"[47] set in its own graveyard—was erected in 1780. It has served the Strict Baptist community continuously since then, and members founded other chapels elsewhere in Sussex during the 18th and 19th centuries. English Heritage has listed the building at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.
Waddesdon Hill Strict Baptist Chapel Waddesdon Build by Francis Cox in 1792 and the trust deed described the worshippers as Calvinistic Protestant Deserters. The Church was a Gospel Standard listed cause but was closed for worship in 1974.[48] The trust deed was given to The Association of Strict Baptist Churches in 1982 who sold it to the Friends of Friendless Churches.[49] The last commemoration meeting was held at the chapel on 16 August 2014.[50]
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Other Strict Baptist churches

The term Strict Baptist was used up until recent decades by other sizeable groups of Calvinistic Baptist churches in England that did not adhere to the Gospel Standard Articles or Magazine. Many were members of regional Strict Baptist Associations,[3] but from about 1980 onwards assemblies, regional associations, and charities connected with this movement gradually adopted the appellation "Grace Baptist".[51][52][53] Lists of churches can be found on the websites of the various regional Grace Baptist associations.

The churches listed below were added to this section before the above information about Grace Baptists, and may well be unrelated.

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