Lockwood Rehoboth Particular Baptist Church

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Records relating to this church can be found at WYAS: Kirklees under reference numbers NB/R and KC1067.

This church was established by some members who seceded from Lockwood c1830-1831 because of a dispute over doctrine.

Meetings were held in a room at the Green, Meltham Road c1830-1832 until a chapel was built in Park Road at Yew Green 1832. This was built in nine weeks partly by the members themselves.

In 1832 a Sunday School was established and one was built behind the chapel in 1838 and was subsequently enlarged in 1862.

In 1880 a new Sunday School was built across the road from the chapel.

In 1917 the chapel joined the Yorkshire Baptist Association.

The chapel closed in 1970 and the congregation joined Lockwood Baptist Church.

The chapel later became a Muslim mosque and the Sunday School which had been built in 1880 was demolished in the 1970s.