Baptist Chapel, Abingdon, Berkshire

Description

The Baptist chapel, in Ock street, is a building in a quasi-Classic style, lying back some distance from the street; the front exhibits four huge pillars supporting a heavy pediment; the chapel, erected in 1841, was completely restored in 1882 at a cost of £750, and has an attached baptistery; further improvements were made in 1893 and 1898, when it was ceiled anew and a new organ provided. In 1902 the adjacent school room was completely restored; extending from the front to the entrance gates next the street is a burial ground: the first foundation of the Baptist cause here was in 1652, but its registers are not earlier than 1764: it has sittings for 650 persons.