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4 Alexandra Road / Deadman’s Lane (Baptist Chapel, Angle’s Theatre)
History of Baptist Chapel
The chapel was built c1790. It was later to become a theatre.
For the history of the Baptist Chapel see:
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/pp250-251
https://www.wisbechbaptistchurch.org.uk/history/
The Cambridge Local History Society Review September 2004 contains an article by Harry Jones, ‘The Wisbech Dissenters’.
1748
John Godwin, minister. His seventh child was William Godwin who became husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley.
1764-1766
William Hazlitt senior, minister, father of William Hazlitt
1781
Samuel Fisher, occasional minister
1794
Richard Wright, minister
1829
Robert Reynoldson, minister
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