Baptist Chapel : Goodshaw
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Baptist Chapel : Goodshaw
Image: © Len Williams Taken: 17 Jun 2014
The front view of the Baptist Chapel at Goodshaw. The first Baptist meeting house at Goodshaw was started in 1685 using private houses. Goodshaw Baptist Chapel owes its existence to a group of people from Lumb who though attached to no particular religious sect held meeting in farmhouses and cottages around the villages of Whitewell Bottom, Lumb and Dean. They eventually came under the influence of the Rev Joseph Piccop the minister of Ebenezer Baptist, Bacup and about 1753 built a meeting house at Bullar Trees near Lumb. After seven years this house proved to small and very inconvenient, as most of the members by now came from Goodshaw. So in 1760 the first chapel was built at Goodshaw with people carrying the pews and fittings from the Lumb meeting house on their backs over the moors to Goodshaw. For further details refer to picture Image
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Image Location
Latitude
53.732671
Longitude
-2.281451