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The Old Meeting chapel was built about 1710, for a Congregationalist meeting which had formerly worshipped in a barn in Silver Street. In 1844, S.S. Marling paid for the front of the chapel to be rebuilt in the neo-Norman style.
The size of the congregation fluctuated in the 18th century, but it grew rapidly in the early 19th century, under the active ministry of John Burder. In 1835-37, the Bedford Street Chapel was built as a daughter church. In 1970, the two were reunited and the Old Meeting was closed. Some of the memorial plates of local families and a stained glass window were preserved and are kept by Stroud Museum.
Some of the most prominent families associated with Stroud worshipped here: the Tanners, Okeys, Paines, Viners, Bloxsomes and Henry Wyatt of Farmhill.
From January 2016, this website is managed by Stroud Local
History Society
Revised 2018 EMW
