PRN 70433 The Baptist Chapel in St Benedict's Square first appears on the Marrat Map of 1817. {1} The Padley Map of 1842 depicts the position of the chapel and an associated cemetery. {2} The first chapel (the General Baptist New Connection Trinitarian Chapel) was erected in 1701. It is a separate and entire building used exclusively as a place of worship. The chapel had a maximum congregation of 120 people. {3} The General Baptist Chapel is an old building in St Benedict's Square, under the ministry of the Rev. Samuel Wright. {4} The Baptist community off the west side of St Benedict’s Square went through many vicissitudes, including a period in the first half of the 19th century when the chapel was used for other purposes, but the Baptists remained on this site and a large new chapel was built in 1884-6 (designed by the architect J. Wallis Chapman and named after Thomas Cooper).The chapel was demolished in 1971-2. The layout of Baptist chapels, incorporating the baptistery itself, tends to express the core beliefs of the sect. At St Benedict’s it is reported that the original baptistery was outside the chapel, in the bank of the river. {5}