As you approach the church from the road you walk across the site of an old inn, The Star, and find yourself looking at what was once one of its outbuildings. A group of people who had been holding services there, often surreptitiously, acquired the building in 1705 and adapted it for use as a place of worship.

Entering by the main door and through the vestibule you find yourself in a typical ‘meeting house’ church. This style of building was very common among Nonconformists who saw a church as essentially a place where people came and met with God and with one another. A simple style, its purpose is to ensure that wherever members of the congregation sit they can hear what is being said and see what is happening.

You will notice that there are chairs instead of the usual pews, that two wooden pillars support the roof, that under the gallery are various rooms where other churches might have chapels. In the centre at the front is the pulpit, in front of which is not an altar but a table and by now you may be wondering what it all means and how it all began……