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PEMBROKE STREET BAPTIST CHAPEL

The Pembroke Baptist Chapel was situated in Pembroke Street, Devonport.

The oldest of the Baptists chapels in Devonport, second only to the one in Plymouth, was that built in the Liberty Fields area in 1781.   The name "Liberty Fields" came from the practice of holding meetings of workers in the Royal Dockyard at this location.  [1]

The interior of the Pembroke Street Baptist Chapel, Devonport.

Its first pastor was the Reverend Isaiah Birt, previously pastor of the Plymouth congregation.  [1]

The Chapel remained in use until the Second World War, after which it was cleared away under a redevelopment scheme.  The Baptist Association decided to replace it with a new building on one of Plymouth's post-war housing estates and so in 1958 Crownhill Baptist Chapel was opened.  [2]

Sources:

[1]  Worth, R N, "History of the town and borough of Devonport, sometime Plymouth Dock", published in 1870 by William Brendon, Plymouth.

[2]  "City Baptist Church is Opened: Pulpit, organ from old building", Western Evening Herald, Plymouth, July 28th 1958.

©  Brian Moseley, Plymouth, UK

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