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Wakefield Road Baptist Church Stalybridge.

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This record is about the Wakefield Road Baptist Church Stalybridge. dating from 1815-1965.

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Title: Wakefield Road Baptist Church Stalybridge.
Date: 1815-1965
Description: Minutes, registers and Correspondence
Held by: Tameside Local Studies and Archives
Language: English
Creator(s): <corpname>Wakefield Road Baptist Church, Stalybridge, Cheshire</corpname>
Physical description: 17 files
Immediate source of acquisition: Donated by Mr R. Brooks, Stalybridge
Administrative / biographical background: The Baptist Church in Stalybridge dates back to 1806 when members first met in a garret in Cocker Hill. Later they transferred to a room on Rassbottom Brow and in 1813 the Particular Baptists seceded. In 1826 they moved from Rassbottom to a chapel in Cross Street (Mount Pleasant?) which had to be demolished when the railway was built. Whilst waiting for the new church in Wakefield Road. (Mount Olivet) to be built they met in the Foresters Hall. Wakefield Road Church opened in 1848. In the late 1960's the General Baptists of Wakefield Road and the Particular Baptists of Cross Leech Street joined forces to build a new church at Ambleside, Ridge Hill which was opened in 1971. The older churches were then demolished.
Copies information: On microfilm Registers of Mount Pleasant Baptist Chapel, 1828 - 1837.
Publication note(s): <p>Wakefield Rd Baptist Church Centenary Record, 1848 - 1948.</p>
Record URL: https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/c5c251c9-3114-4553-9b19-9d9c9868aa5b/