Queens Road Baptist Church

The church has a continuous history traced back to 1643. In that year, a number of issues arose in the two parish churches of Coventry surrounding church style, personal faith, and baptism, seeking for religious purity. From this, a distinct Baptist church arose, worshipping in private property. In 1723, the first chapel was erected for the church. During John Butterworth ministry, the church developed and grew, until it moved into a larger premises in Cow Lane. John Worwood, a deacon at the time, owned a carpentry and a building business and was the builder of the church as appointed by the Building Committee in February 1882 to build it on commission. In 1931, Howard Ingli James, a new…