Our Church History

"Jesus is the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved."

Acts 4:11-12 quoting Psalm 118: 22 NIV

The earliest recording of Baptists meeting in Woodstock was in 1794 when several Woodstock families invited the Rev James Hinton the minister of New Road Baptist Church in Oxford to lead worship in a house opposite the Marlborough Arms Hotel.

Somehow 50 adults and children squeezed into the house but as the service got under way a mob broke in and attacked the worshippers who were forced to flee. Several people including a deacon who had accompanied Mr Hinton were seriously injured.

Some 25 years later in 1819 a further attempt to establish a Baptist witness was more successful and the church was formally established by a Deed of Trust in 1825. Today some 200 years later Baptists still worship and witness within the community of Woodstock.