Jordan Well and Cow Lane

Its first "meeting-house" (since demolished) was built in Jordan Well in 1723, from which time church minute books survive. (Church records are deposited at the Coventry City Record Office.) A member of our existing congregation now has a business located on that site! It was John Butterworth , minister 1753-1803, who saw the church grow and move to a larger chapel in Cow Lane (also now demolished; near today's New Union Street).

In the 1840s the church adopted its present statement for members to sign, in place of an older Calvinistic covenant: "I hereby sign myself a humble follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a member of his Church".

With Francis Franklin , minister 1798-1852, came many features of early 19th century evangelical nonconformity:
Preaching in nearby villages - the Baptist churches now at Lenton's Lane and Attleborough resulted.
A Sunday School, started in 1801.
A concern for further education. Franklin's daughters ran a school for young women, one pupil becoming the novelist George Eliot.