Appendix 3


Pastors* of Baptist Churches in Chichester.

A. The General Baptist Church, c.1648 to 1940.

Meeting in a room, believed to be in South Street, 1648 to 1671. Meeting in Eastgate General Baptist Chapel,1671 (rebuilt 1728) to 1804, 1849 to 1876 and 1883 to 1940.

Meeting with Baffins Lane Chapel 1804 to 1849.

James Sicklemore, BA. XX c.1648 - 1656
George Smith XX 1671 -
Thomas Croucher XX
Abraham Mulliner XX 1699 - 1703
James Austen XX 1701 - 1713
William Smith XX 1714 - 1719
Matthew Randell XX 1719 - 1721
Richard Drinkwater XX 1719 - 1744
Matthew Austen XX 1744 - 1756
Isaac Mott XX 1756 - 1767
James Spershott XX 1756 - 1789
John Foster XX 1797 - 1799
XX
John Hill XX 1849 - 1876
Richard E. Birks XX 1883 - 1885
Charles A. Hoddinott XX 1886 - 1908 #
A. J. Marchant XX 1908 - 1911 #
George Lansdown XX 1911 - 1936 #
Mabel Beames XX 1936 - 1940

* Variously referred to as Elders, Pastors or Ministers, sometimes with the title ‘Reverend’.

# Ministers of both Eastgate General Baptist Chapel and Baffins Lane Chapel.


B. Chichester Baptist Church, formed in 1951

Meeting in The Coronation Hall, Chapel Street and The Cicestria Hall, North Pallant, 1951 to 1958.

Meeting in The Baptist Church, Sherborne Road, from September, 1958.

Hubert W. Janisch, M.A. (Moderator) XX 1951 - 1957 YY
Albert W. H. Crowther XX 1957 - 1962 YY
Michael L. R. Wotton, M.A., B.D. XX 1963 - 1968 YY
Alan Burrell XX 1969 - 1984 YY
Peter J. Nash, B.A., Mus.B., B.D. XX 1984 - 1990 (1st July) YY
Ian R. White, Ph.D., M.Sc., B.A. XX 1992 - 2000 YY
Kenneth L. Benjamin, B.A.(Econ), B.A.(Theol) XX 1996 - 2000 (Associate Minister) YY
XX 2000 - present (Minister) YY
Keith Gordon Wilson, MA.(Jt. Hons in Geog & Hist), B.D. XX 2000 - 2004 (Associate Minister) YY
Ellen Wild, BA, DipTh XX 2011 - present YY