Waddesdon Hill

Strict and Particular Baptist Chapel

Near Aylesbury, Bucks

OS Number: SP 754 150

  

 

This Grade II* chapel of 1792 was founded by Francis Cox.

It evokes simple rustic nonconformist piety with unpretentious monuments, most of them hand-painted and a fireplace used by the ladies following baptism in the total immersion baptistry which is under a trap door immediately in front of the Georgian pulpit. Please do not lift the cover as it is very heavy.

The chapel was acquired by the Friends some twenty years ago on its closure to save it from a conversion which would have destroyed most of its quality. Our programme of repairs has included some replacement of timber of the stairs to the gallery which is otherwise original.

If you would like to visit the church and need details of keyholders, directions etc, please telephone our office on: 020 7236 3934.


Above: photograph kindly sent to us by Paul Smith, a visitor to the church in July 2003. Below: the three-decker pulpit and a plan of the chapel drawn by CF Stell.

 

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