| Administrative History | From 1879 Congregationalists and Baptists met in Frodsham, originally at Sutton Mills, the home of Mr Thomas Rigby. Thomas Rigby had moved from Over in 1878 where he had been active in the Congregational church. He joined forces with Mr John Ockleston Jackson, a baptist of Runcorn who formed a Sunday School while Thomas Rigby gathered a congregation. In 1886 they jointly moved to the newly built Union Church on the site of the old Saddle Inn. The church was designed by John Douglas, cost £2000 and would seat 300. The church was named Union Church to acknowledge its foundation by Congregationalists and Baptists. It closed July 2005. See "A History of the Cheshire County Union of Congregational Churches" by F J Powicke (1907) |