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’.

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1748

John Godwin, minister. His seventh child was William Godwin who became husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley.

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1764-1766

William Hazlitt senior, minister, father of William Hazlitt

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1781

Samuel Fisher, occasional minister

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1794

Richard Wright, minister

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1829

Robert Reynoldson, minister