Baptist Chapel, 156 – 158 High Street, Cottenham

History of the Baptist Chapel

Listed Building:

Nonconformist chapel, 1856, extended 1904.

A rectangular stone plaque embedded in a brick wall, inscribed with dates for the old and present Baptist chapels.

Baptist Chapel, High Street, Cottenham

1901

Robert Norman, 66 farmer, b Cottenham

Harriet, 69, b Willingham

Clifford, 31, b Cottenham

Margaret A Sparrow, 17, servant, b Kirtling

A brick chapel with arched windows and a pediment stands behind iron railings beside a street where a man in a hat stands.

Cottenham Baptist chapel circa 1900 (photo W M Palmer) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

1911 see 160 High Street.

Ivy-covered chapel on a village street with a soldier on horseback riding toward the viewer along the unpaved road.

Baptist Chapel, Cottenham c.1914-1918 (photo E Smith, MoC769/86))

1915

The Chapel became the Cambridge Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital Number 36. Cottenham in Focus (2002) (quoted in Vanishing Cambridge) notes: Twenty patients were received in the chapel schoolroom. A bathroom containing a bath with hot and cold water was added in December 1916 at a time when few houses in the village had such facilities. The Chapel deacons asked the Red Cross to leave in October 1917 after occupants were discovered dancing and playing cards on the premises. The patients were subsequently accommodated at the Rectory.

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