Baptists, Rowde

There seems to have been a reasonable number of Baptists in the village for about one hundred years but never sufficient, or with sufficient money, to build a chapel. A house in the courtyard of James Dyer was registered for worship in 1773 and there were eight householders as signatories. Other houses were registered in 1816, 1846 (in Trafalgar Place) and 1852; other houses registered were specified as Baptist although some may have been.