Mass & Service Times
We do not have service times for Banbridge Baptist Church yet. The contact details on this page are the quickest way to check. Send them to us and we will list them.
About Banbridge Baptist Church
Banbridge Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Banbridge, County Down, a member of the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland.
History
The church was founded in 1845. Under its third pastor, W. S. Eccles, the congregation grew during the revival of 1859. The church's own history records that Eccles preached from an improvised pulpit on the lawn of his home, and that at one time as many as 2,000 people were estimated to have gathered on the lawn and the adjoining meadow to hear him. The church describes itself as the oldest surviving Baptist church in the county.
The building
The congregation has occupied two buildings. The first, referred to as the old church, was secured within a short time of the church being constituted and was modified many times over almost 130 years of use. Adjoining properties were bought over a number of years, and in 1977 a new church was built on the enlarged site, which stands on the main thoroughfare of the town.
