Most of the church history on this website is taken directly from
the illustrated Centenary Souvenir of the Baptist Church, The Green, Attleborough
written in 1921 by "The Wayfarer" and the Ter-Jubilee booklet produced in 1971.
The early records of the church were kept in the basement of the
National Provincial Bank in Nuneaton. Until a flood relief channel was
constructed in the 1970s, the town centre was often flooded. At some point, possibly the
momentous flood of 22 May 1932, the bank's basement was inundated. It is not know which,
if any, church records were destroyed but the surviving records were transferred into the
keeping of the Warwickshire Records Office in Warwick some time during the 1930s.
KEPT AT CHURCH
The Register of Members, begun in 1840. The 550th name was added in 2002.
Registers of Marriage from 1931 to date. (There is a fee for copies of entries.)
The Title Deed of the Church.
KEPT AT THE
WARWICKSHIRE COUNTY RECORD OFFICE,
The first ever minute book is not in the possession of the Record Office but, in 1899,
a précis was made of it and of subsequent minute books. The first few pages of this précis record the
official formation of Attleborough Baptist Church on 29th September 1840 and summaries of events
in 1854,'55,'56,'60 and '62. The catalogue numbers of all the records are as follows:
MICROFICHE
CR992/2 Lists of church members, 1872-1881.
MANUSCRIPTS
CR992/1 Précis, 1840-1940
CR992/2-7 Minutes, 1871-1959
CR992/8-9 Deacons' minutes, 1940-1950
CR992/10 Secretary's reports, 1946-1950
CR992/11 Sunday School teachers meetings minutes, 1872-1932
CR992/12 List of books borrowed from the Sunday School library, 1893-1903