Saffron Walden Baptist Church

Saffron Walden Baptist Church. Andrew Gifford was a personal friend of Robert Robinson, Ebenezer Hollick, and Elizabeth Fuller, daughter of Thomas Fuller, “a successful weaver, who owned much land in and around Walden, and lived at Myddylton House.  Thomas Fuller was a trustee of the Hill Street Baptist Church, and a member of Abbey Lane Independent Meeting” in Saffron.  In 1774 the Abbey Lane Baptists met in Elizabeth Fuller’s barn at Myddylton House.  Elizabeth Fuller died in 1777 and left a great sum to the Baptist work in Saffron.  Matthew Walker became the next pastor in the 1780s through 1809.  See Our Churches Story 1711-1987: Saffron Walden Baptist Church.