King's Stanley Baptist Church, Middleyard
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King's Stanley Baptist Church, Middleyard
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 20 Nov 2011
The church in Broad Street Middleyard was built in 1824. The schoolroom http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3222672 on the left was added in 1883. The church building has the inscription BAPTIST CHURCH FOUNDED 1640, which is the year of the earliest surviving records of a Baptist fellowship in the King's Stanley area. At that time, it was illegal to meet for worship anywhere other than in a Church of England church. The local Baptists worshipped secretly in one of their homes. They were Seventh Day Baptists who met for worship on Saturdays, not Sundays.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.726955
Longitude
-2.262153