Ernest St Particular Baptist, Church in the County of -- Lancashire --

	Ernest St Particular Baptist, Church

	The Church Board at Ernest St Particular Baptist, Church

The Church Nameplate at Ernest St, Church

The Church Date Stone at Ernest St, Church

Church had few non-conformist chapels compared to Oswaldtwistle. The Baptists were the main nonconformist movement in the settlement, first opening a school in 1843. Early meetings were in hired rooms, including over Whittaker’s smithy in Wood Street, but in 1845 a new, but small, school and chapel were built near ‘Robert Wade’s timber yard’. In 1868-9 the current chapel was built on Ernest Street, and a new school was added in 1871.The school is now demolished.

Sources:
Bevan and Palmer’s A History of the Parish of St James, Church Kirk (1956, 2nd edn 1989). Egerton Lea Consultancy and Lancashire County Council, June 2005 Oswaldtwistle and Church; Historic Town Assessment Report