Stockport Baptist Church, Stockport
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Stockport Baptist Church, Stockport
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 10 Sep 2016
Viewed across Thomson Street. The church website records that Stockport's first Baptist, Peter Longworth, was baptised in the canal near Lancashire Bridge on Sunday morning July 29th 1838 in the presence of 1,000 people. Stockport Baptist Church was founded in 1838 with a minister and eight members. The current church building seen here in September 2016 was originally the church hall/Sunday School.
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53.40419
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