BLOXHAM BAPTIST CHAPEL

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This document was deposited with us via Banbury Library and the Local Studies library in the Westgate, Oxford in June 1983 and it was then assigned the accession number 2147.

In the 19th century Bloxham had a very strong baptist following. By the beginning of the 19th century the Particular Baptists had become the most vigorous of the nonconformist bodies in the parish and neighbourhood. A meeting house was registered in 1808 in the names of 6 local men of whom 3 belonged to the Gascoigne and Cakebread families. In 1812 a chapel was built and registered and in 1821 a baptist minister was ordained. There was also a baptist Sunday School by this date. A new and larger chapel was built in 1859. The whereabouts of the other records relating to this chapel are not known.

Catalogued by Jeanette Grisold, June 1993.

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