The Baptist College, Stepney, was opened in

Stepney Stepney is a district in the East End of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The district is no longer officially defined, and is usually used to refer to a relatively small area. However, for much of its history the place name appl ...

in the East End of London in 1810 by the

Particular Baptists Reformed Baptists (sometimes known as Particular Baptists or Calvinistic Baptists) are Baptists that hold to a Calvinist soteriology (salvation). The first Calvinist Baptist church was formed in the 1630s. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith w ...

. Its buildings included rooms for tutors and students, a refectory, a library and a chapel. The college relocated to larger premises at

Holford House Holford House was an English country house built in the Regent's Park in 1832, then on the outskirts of London. It was used at various times in its history as a private residence and an educational college for Dissenters before being destroyed by a ...

in 1856 and became

Regent's Park College Regent's Park College (known colloquially within the university as Regent's) is a permanent private hall of the University of Oxford, situated in central Oxford, just off St Giles', Oxford, St Giles'. Founded in 1810, the college moved to it ...

. The only remaining structure is the largely-destroyed Baptist Academical Institution chapel. The building remained until it was damaged during

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; only three parts of the college estate remain.2 The site is currently part of the

Stepney City Farm Stepney City Farm is a city farm in Stepney, London, England. It is situated on Stepney Way with its entrance on the roundabout leading onto Stepney High Street and Belgrave Street towards Limehouse. The land is owned by Tower Hamlets Council t ...

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works are taking place there.Structures at King John Street, Stepney Green, London E1 (Stepney College and Stepney Meeting, or Congregational Church)
Museum of London Archaeology Service

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