One of the branches of Protestant Christianity. Modern Baptist churches trace their history to the English Separatist movement in the 1600s.
Not to be confused with the Old Baptist Union.
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Isaac Watts
Hymn-writer, poet, theologian and logician. Born Southampton. As a non-conformist he could not go to Oxford or Cambridge so went to the Stoke Newington Dissenting Academy and stayed connected to St...
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Thomas Rosewell
Non-conformist minister. Born Somerset. Died Bermondsey. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
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Rev. Dawson Burns
Baptist minister and lifelong temperance activist. Born Southwark to Jabez Burns also a Baptist minister and temperance advocate from 1836. Died Battersea.
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The Very Reverend Alan Brunskill Webster, KVCO
Dean of St Paul's Cathedral from 1978 to 1987 and before that Dean of Norwich for eight years. His Wikipedia page and his Telegraph obituary give much information about this man.
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Christ Church Spitalfields - alterations
Wikipedia says the works were done in 1850 but the church's own website confirms the date in the plaque and seems to say that all the Victorian alterations were undone ("a restoration of the church...
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