Church Micro 5090...Gosberton

Gosberton Baptist Church was founded in 1666,

A year better known for the discovery by Isaac Newton that a prism could split light into its constituent colours; the death of Dutch painter Frans Hals; and the devastating Great Fire of London.

The present building was used for 200 years, until in 1866 a new chapel was built to celebrate the church's bicentenary. The original meeting house was then used as a hall for the Sunday School, but by the beginning of the 1980s it was disused, unsafe, and likely to be demolished. Rev.Tom Gillies, the new minister, generated enthusiasm for raising funds to restore this piece of Lincolnshire history. Restoration work took place in 1984-85, with the porch extension finally completed in 1989. In due course it was the Victorian chapel that had to be demolished, having suffered from dry rot and storm damage, and the original 'meeting house' became once more the home of Gosberton Baptist Church.

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