Church Micro 14978...Braintree - Christchurch Traditional Cache

London Road Congregational Church

The current church building was erected when the Congregational Church Meeting House in Back Lane, off Sandpit Lane, became too small for the growing congregation. The minister at the time, Rev. John Carter, who owned Blandford House, donated part of the land for the church to be built on.

The new Independent Chapel in Braintree is a large and elegant structure of white brick and Bath stone. It has 1600 sittings.It was built in 1832, in lieu of the old chapel, which was built in 1788, and enlarged in 1813, and stood in the burial ground in Back Lane, now well enclosed, and having in it’s wall an inscription showing where the front of the chapel stood.

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