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:

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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