User:Moswento/Tiverton Baptist Church

Tiverton Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Tiverton, Devon, England. It was one of the first Baptist churches to be founded in England, being established by Dutch exiles in 1607. These exiles were weavers who had travelled to England via Spain to escape anti-Christian persecution, settling in Tiverton as it was an important town in the wool industry. Initially, the church was theologically aligned with Arminianism, but by the 1656 meeting of the Baptist Western Association, they were closer to Calvinism. By 1769, the church had 66 members. The current building is dated to 1876. Formerly, the church's meeting house was built by Richard Haydon.


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