Fuller Baptist Church

From 1782 to the end of his life, Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) served the pastorate of the Baptist Church in Kettering. By 1786, the congregation was compelled to enlarge their chapel. With increasing growth, by 1804-5, they enlarged it again – this time to seat nine hundred persons. They replaced that building with the present Lombardian- style edifice, during 1860-61, when the church’s name changed from Kettering Baptist to “Fuller Baptist Church.” It can accommodate about a thousand people. Its Heritage Room displays Andrew Fuller’s pulpit, communion table, desk, and sermon notes, along with Widow Wallis’s teapot. Tombstones in the small graveyard at the rear of the premises include those of Andrew Fuller and Beeby and Martha Wallis.

copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices

Such was his international standing, he was offered honorary doctorates by both Yale and the College of New Jersey – now Princeton – although he turned them down….

While he wrote a number of influential works before his death in 1815, his early sermons and other documents have survived only as shorthand notes.

They remained inaccessible until Dr Steve Holmes, head of the School of Divinity at St Andrews University found one headed in longhand “Confessions of Faith, Oct. 7 1783”.

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