The Rehoboth Chapel is a

Strict Baptist 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 ...

place of worship in the village of

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in the English county of East Sussex. The red- and blue-brick building dates from 1876. Its

Gospel Standard ''The Gospel Standard'' is a Strict Baptist 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 ...

congregation, founded in 1852, maintains links with the Forest Fold chapel on the other side of Crowborough.

Seceders The First Secession was an exodus of ministers and members from the Church of Scotland in 1733. Those who took part formed the Associate Presbytery and later the United Secession Church. They were often referred to as seceders. The underlying ...

from that chapel founded the Jarvis Brook cause in 1852; they met in a schoolroom at first. The chapel is licensed for worship in accordance with the

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and has the registration number 24990.

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