| Description | (Includes an account of the church’s history from before 1688 to 1823, including biographical information about ministers and details of charities, compiled by John Copeland, deacon and trustee, 1823; accounts of collections for the London Missionary Society, 1813-1843; details of the process of calling ministers to the church, obituaries, elections, relations with Abingdon Baptist Church, the opening of daughter chapels in surrounding villages (including Sutton Courtenay, 1787, Steventon, 1793, Drayton, 1797, Tubney, 1797, and Appleford 1859), and the wrongful arrest of the Revd Stephen Lepine, 1865; minutes of the Building Committee, 1861-1862, and of the Oxford and West Berkshire Association of Congregational Churches, 1852, 1860, 1867; and (at back) copy (dated 1847) of rules of the subscribers to the establishment of Sunday Schools in Abingdon, 1785. Indexed) |