WELCOME TO WINDLEY BAPTIST CHAPEL

 

Welcome to our rural chapel. Click here to see a map of our location. We are situated between Wirksworth and Belper, on Windley Lane, Windley, Near Belper, Derbyshire DE56 2LP, about half a mile south of Cowers Lane, where the A517 crosses the B5023. Find us if you can!

Our Sunday Worship is at 11:00am. Everyone welcome! 

The Chapel is available for your Church/Home/Alpha Group for Retreat/Holy Spirit days etc., we have a ramp for disabled access if necessary.  If you are interested in spending time 'away from it all' in our peaceful setting, please contact us either by    e-mail or phone.  Our baptistry is also available for use.

To find out more, please contact our Church Secretaries, Andrew & Sarah Robey tel : 01773 828625 or email : asrobey@tiscali.co.uk

Preachers for July 2008

Sunday 6th - Ian Morrison

Sunday 13th - Richard Williams

Sunday 20th - John Parkin

Sunday 27th - Philip Slack

Pre-Service Prayer every 4th Sunday in the month at 10.00am. 

 

Forthcoming Event

Saturday 2nd August 2008 at 7.30 p.m.

Praise & Worship Evening

led by Ian Toone.

Everyone Welcome. 

 

A short history of Windley Baptist Chapel

Very little is known of the beginnings and the early history of the chapel, and the few facts that follow have been gleaned from various historical records in the library at Regent Park Baptist College, Oxford.  The earliest clues to the Baptist witness in the village of Windley come in “History of the General Baptists” by A. Taylor, and commence A.D. 1809.  From then on we have to rely on “The Baptist Quarterly” for any clues to our objective, Windley.  It doesn’t get a mention in its own right but appears often under Duffield.

 In 1816 Windley is first mentioned, and along with Milford and Belper is known as a Preaching Station.

 In 1823 Windley gets a mention again, and in 1838 it is reported that “Things are pretty much as they were”, as indeed was still the case in 1840.  In 1841 better news, “Our cause is improving at Windley”, and there is “a good Sabbath School”.  By 1843, the cause at Windley was “In a prosperous state”.

 In 1844 the preaching was well attended at Windley.

 In 1845, Windley is reported as being prosperous and well attended and “Our Friends at Windley contemplate the erection of a New Chapel there”.

 It is recorded that the chapel building was erected in 1848 as a branch of the Duffield church and it is entered in the Handbook under Duffield until 1877 when it became independent.  For some years the Baptist Union Handbook gives the foundation date as 1877, obviously as the date when it became an independent church, although in later years it is given as 1846.

 In 1891 it is recorded that the membership was 20 but in 1899 this was reduced to 14 with 36 Sunday school scholars.  From 1900 until 1932 there is no mention of Windley in the B.U. Handbook, either it had withdrawn from B.U. membership or the chapel was no longer open.  In 1932 the membership was 5.

 Membership seems to have reached a peak in 1960 with 12 after which there was a decline to the present small number.

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