Our History

 The first indication of a Baptist Church in Moulton may well be a religious census dated 1676. Twenty nine Non-Conformists are recorded, and this probably refers to those attending meetings held by John Chown, a weaver, in his home, who had moved to the village from Spratton in 1652.

These meetings were continued by his son, who was granted a licence in 1696 under the toleration act of 1689.

There are records of the ministries of William Stranger and his son Thomas in the first half of the eighteenth century, but following the son's death in 1768, it seems the Baptist cause in Moulton was in decline.

William Carey came to Moulton in 1785 and was invited to be the Minister of the church on 2nd November 1786, where he remained until he moved to Leicester in 1789.

William Carey went on to be instrumental in the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792 and the following year went out to India where he remained in Serampore until his death in 1834.

During Carey's ministry, the Chapel was reconstructed and enlarged to a building 30 feet square, and was further enlarged in 1870 to its present size.

We have a small museum about William Carey.