Baptist Meeting, Whiteparish

In the return of 1669 a Baptist group is recorded in Whiteparish and these would have looked to the chapel at Downton as their 'mother church'. In 1715 the house of Christopher Biddlecombe was licensed for worship while the house of John Barling was licensed c.1716. The movement was not strong enough to build a chapel and individual Baptists probably worshipped at Downton in later years.