Quorn Baptist Church

The original meeting house was the granite house opposite the present chapel, which was licensed for meetings in 1760. It was the home of Robert Parkinson, who played an important role in the church's founding. By 1766, preaching was being conducted regularly, the congregation had grown and, in 1770, a neat, plain meeting house was built at a cost of £270. In 1780, a Sunday school was started by John Gamble. The same year, the church held a revival, with a hundred believers professing their faith and offering themselves for baptism. The meeting house was enlarged in 1780 at a cost of £160, but by 1790 it was again found to be too small to seat the members so the walls and roof were raised…