Contents

Foreword (1995 edition)

Foreword (2002 edition)

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part 1 - The Seventeenth Century

1. Baptist Beginnings in England

2. Baptist Beginnings in Chichester

3. The First Years at Chichester: Eastgate Chapel

4. Persecution of Dissenters and Schisms in Dissenting Churches

Part 2 - The Eighteenth Century

5. Progress in Eastgate Chapel

6. James Spershott

7. Waning Congregations, and Doctrinal Differences

Part 3 - The Nineteenth Century

8. Baffin’s Lane Chapel

9. The 1849 Dispute and a New Deed

10. Baptists in England at the end of the 19th Century

Part 4 - The First Half of the Twentieth Century

11. Resolving of Ownership

12. Proceeds of Sale of Eastgate Chapel

13. The Hidden Years

Part 5 - The Second Half of the Twentieth Century

14. The Post-War Situation

15. Formation of Chichester Baptist Church

16. Doubts and Queries

17. A Church without a Building

18. Advance: 1956 and 1957

19. The New Building

20. The First Decade at Sherborne Road

21. On to the Silver Jubilee

22. 1977-1984

23. Changes

24. Staff, Space and Leadership

25. So to Forty Years

26. Approaching the Half Century

Postscript: Trends & Tensions

Revised Edition, 2002

27. Continued Advance 1995 to 2001

Appendices

1. Extracts from “Thoughts on an Inscription in Singleton Church. James Sicklemore, 17th Century Rector.”

2. Resolution re General Baptist Chapels and Endowments

3. Pastors of Baptist Churches in Chichester

4. Covenant of Membership

5. Description of the New Church Building at Sherborne Road, Chichester, opened on 13th September, 1958

6. Student support

7. Proposed extensions 2000 (Second Edition)

8. Chichester Branch of the Old Baptist Union (1899 to 1905) (Second Edition)