Peterborough, General Baptist Church 

Peterborough, General Baptist Church – Samuel Wright served a long y pastorate that resulted, however, in a steady decline in church membership. When he died in 1845, the church had dwindled to five members. A new chapel was built in the early 1850s, and under the leadership of Thomas Barrass, church membership rose to nearly 700 by the end of the century. See Three Hundred Years of Free Church Life.Tercentenary 1953, Park Road Baptist Church, Peterborough (Peterborough: n.p., [1953]), 8-10.