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Bloomsbury Institutions

Spiritual

Baptist Church (Cromer Street)

Also known as Cromer Street Chapel

History

It opened as a Baptist place of worship in 1838 in Cromer Street (Baptist Manual, 1845)

Its minister in the early 1860s was Rev. E. W. Thomas, of 200 Euston Road; however, he had resigned his ministry by the beginning of 1864 and was seeking a new post (The Church, January 1864)

It no longer exists

What was reforming about it?

It had a devout and abstemious congregation in the middle of one of the most notoriously rough and hard-drinking parts of Bloomsbury

Where in Bloomsbury

It was located in Cromer Street

Website of current institution

It no longer exists

Books about it

None found

Archives

None found

This page last modified 13 April, 2011 by Deborah Colville

 

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