Annual meetings are normally held on the fourth Saturday in June. A historical lecture is given in a nearby hall followed by tea: a bookstall is also provided. There is then a preaching service in the meeting house.

Next meetings: Saturday 27^th June 2026, God willing.

2.30pm – Lecture in The St. Laurence Room (corner of Market Square)
Subject: Archibald Brown
Lecturer: Pastor Oliver Wyncoll (Bedford)

5.30pm – Preaching service in the Meeting House
Preacher: Pastor Oliver Wyncoll (Bedford)

ALL ARE VERY WELCOME TO JOIN THESE MEETINGS.

Recordings

Recordings of most lectures and preaching services from 1979 are available as listed below. Recordings play in a separate tab/window.

If you listen to any recording we ask you to kindly consider making a donation to our funds, as detailed on the S upport page. Please use the reference ‘Recording’ for any bank transfer.

Please see the Lectures & Services page for further details of these recordings.

Lectures

Year	Lecturer	Subject (click to listen)
2025	Pastor Peter Wilkins	Septimus Sears
2024	Graham Chewter	The Remarkable 18th Century Ministry of John Newton
2023	Roger March	*Philip Doddridge*
2022	Mr Roland Burrows	*The Huguenots*
2021	Dr Matthew Hyde	*Grey Hazlerigg – “Not many noble” – the aristocrat who became a preacher*
2020	Pastor David Cooke	*Balthaser Hubmaier*
2019	Mr Stan Evers	*George Whitefield – 18th Century Evangelist*
2018	Pastor Chalan Hetherington	*John Warburton*
2017	Dr Matthew Hyde	*Thomas Hardcastle (1636-1678) and the Persecution of Baptists*
2016	Mr Austin Walker	*Benjamin Keach – A Son Of Buckinghamshire*
2015	Mr David Marlow	*Frances Ridley Havergal*
2014	Mr Fred Raynsford	*John Cennick*
2013	Mr Tim Martin	*William Huntington*
2012	Mr John Pestell	*John Bunyan*
2011	Mr Peter Hallihan	*The Certain Sound of the Authorized Version – a not-too-technical fanfare for 400 Years*
2010	Mr Graham Chewter	*Lord Wharton And His Bible Charity*
2009	Dr Kenneth Dix	*John Newton & William Cowper: An Unusual Friendship*
2008	Mr Stan Evers	*C H Spurgeon – A Successor of Benjamin Keach*
2007	Mr Roger March	*John Sutcliff of Olney*
2006	Mr Paul Cook	*Augustus Toplady*
2005	Mr Graham Chewter	*Hymns with a History*
2004	Dr Kenneth Dix	*Benjamin Keach*
2003	Mr Tim Martin	*Bunyan’s Image of the City*
2002	Mr Paul Cook	*Isaac Watts: The Father of English Hymnody*
2001	Mr Roger March	*William Carey: The Making of a Missionary*
2000	Mr Peter Hallihan	*Miles Coverdale: Bible Man, Bishop, Beggar*
1999	Mr Paul Cook	*William Grimshaw*
1998	Mr John Marshall	*The Puritan Woman*
1997	Mr Nigel Pibworth	*John Berridge*
1996	Dr Kenneth Dix	*Oliver Cromwell*
1995	Mr Paul Watts	*Our Forefathers Fasted*
1994	Dr Kenneth Dix	*John Bunyan*
1993	Mr George Ashdown	*The English Reformation*
1992	Mr Tim Martin	*The Mighty Metaphor*
1991	C P Hallihan	*The First Baptist Confession, 1644* (no recording)
1990	Mr Benjamin Ramsbottom	*The Life of David Crossley*
1989	Mr David Oldham	The Church in Romania: Persecuted but Prospering (no recording)
1988	Mr Benjamin Ramsbottom	*William Kiffin, 1616-1701*
1987	Mr David Oldham	*The Times of Benjamin Keach*
1986	Dr Kenneth Dix	*Baptists in Fellowship 1630-1690*
1985	Dr Kenneth Dix	*Benjamin Keach and the Singing Controversy*
1984		(No lecture)
1983		(No meetings)
1982	Mr Benjamin Ramsbottom	*Keach’s Friends: The Stennets*
1981	Mr Benjamin Ramsbottom	A Chapel Visit Two Hundred Years Ago
1980	Dr Kenneth Dix	*Old Times at the Old Chapel* (incomplete recording)
1979	Dr Kenneth Dix	*Winslow and the Old Chapel in the Days of Keach* (no recording)

Services

Year	Preacher	Bible Passage (click to listen)
2025	Pastor Peter Wilkins	Psalm 3:5
2024	Graham Chewter	*Isaiah 58:10*
2023	Roger March	*Acts 19:22*
2022	Mr Roland Burrows	*Jeremiah 1*
2021	Dr Matthew Hyde	*Matthew 18:3*
2020	Pastor David Cooke	*Hebrews 13:7-8*
2019	Mr Stan Evers	*Colossians 1:14*
2018	Pastor Chalan Hetherington	*Galatians 3:17*
2017	Dr Matthew Hyde	*Psalm 42:11*
2016	Pastor Robert Cordle	*Hebrew 13:8*
2015	Mr Graham Chewter	*Revelation 2:10*
2014	Mr Fred Raynsford	*Habakkuk*
2013	Mr Roland Burrows	*1 Kings 8*
2012	Mr David Philpott	*Psalm 107:25,29*
2011	Mr Philip Hambridge	*1 Corinthians 12:27*
2010	Mr David Oldham	*1 Peter 4:10*
2009	Mr Jabez Rutt	*1 Peter 2:4*
2008	Mr Tim Martin	*John 16:22*
2007	Mr Colin Dawson	*Luke 24:36-53*
2006	Mr Graham Hadley	*Colossians 2:10-13*
2005	Dr Peter Rowell	*John 10:27-30*
2004	Mr Paul Watts	*1 Kings 16:29-34*
2003	Mr John Marshall	*1 Corinthians 3:11*
2002	Mr Graham Chewter	*2 Corinthians 12:9-10*
2001	Mr Colin Dawson	*Deuteronomy 8:2*
2000	Mr Jabez Rutt	*Isaiah 48:16*
1999	Mr Robert Field	*Psalm 115:12*
1998	Mr Stephen Hyde	*2 Timothy 2:12*
1997	Mr Tim Martin	*Luke 9:23*
1996	Dr Peter Rowell	*Ephesians 5:25*
1995	Mr Gordon Hawkins	*John 15:19*
1994	Mr John Marshall	*Galatians 2:20*
1993	Mr Paul Watts	*1 Corinthians 14:8*
1992	Pastor Gerald Buss	*Revelation 12:10-11*
1991	Mr Ralph Warboys	*Hebrews 13:7-8*
1990	Mr David Oldham	*Ecclesiastes 7:10*
1989	Dr Kenneth Dix	*Mark 9:1*
1988	Mr David Oldham	*Lamentations 3:21*
1987	Mr Colin Dawson	*Romans 13:11*
1986	Mr Benjamin Ramsbottom	*Acts 7:59-60*
1985	Mr Benjamin Ramsbottom	*Hebrews 12:1*
1984	Mr Reginald Aldridge	(No details or recording)
1983		(No meetings)
1982	Mr George Collier	*Psalm 119:111*
1981	Mr George Collier	*Proverbs 16:20*
1980	Mr George Collier	*Acts* *17:23*
1979		(No service)

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