Cote Baptist Church

Cote Baptist Church stands in Shifford Road, Cote, 1mi to the east of Aston and 4mi to the east of Bampton, in Oxfordshire, England. It is a redundant Baptist chapel in the care of the Historic Chapels Trust, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.Early historyThe congregation of Baptists who built the chapel originated in Longworth, a village on the other side of the River Thames, in the middle of the 17th century. The land for a chapel in Cote was given by John Williams in 1703 and the chapel built on the land was licensed for meetings the following year. In the 1750s it was either rebuilt or enlarged, and a gallery was added in 1756. In the late 1850s the chapel was extensively restored, and the double gable at the front was replaced by a single gable, which hid the roof valley behind it. At the same time, the chapel was re-floored and the vestries were enlarged, new pews and galleries were added, and a new pulpit was placed at the west end which replaced the previous pulpit on the south wall. An organ by Henry Jones of London was added in 1867, and electric light was installed in 1948. From 9th January 1945 until 25th June 1957 the Church was the home to the 1st Aston Boys' Brigade Company under the captainship of Alan J Hook.