It has been truly said that the church of Jesus Christ is people, not buildings.  In the case of Burgh, we find a record of Baptist believers in the community in the early 1600’s, but the first mention of a building is in 1719.  It would, therefore, appear that for about 100 years they worshipped in the homes of believers.
Those early years were times of persecution for ‘Nonconformists’. In 1660 nine believers from Burgh and neighbouring Croft were signatories along with others from Lincolnshire to a petition that was presented to King Charles II setting out the sufferings inflicted on the churches in Lincolnshire

MONKSTHORPE. However, about this time an Act was passed to restrain Nonconformists from inhabiting towns and cities. If they refused to swear allegiance to the Government forbidding them to go within five miles of any city or town that sent members to Parliament.  This resulted in the Baptist believers of Burgh le Marsh trekking into the countryside to a hamlet known as Monksthorpe and worshipping in the open-air for about thirty years until a landowner gave them about two acres on which to build a chapel and for burial purposes.  That was in 1701 and this building still stands and is used and has one of the few outdoor baptisteries in the country. For more information and location please use this Link

OUR CHURCH.  Eventually laws were relaxed and there is a record of a cottage and garden being sold to Burgh Baptists in 1719.  This was converted into a meeting room for worship and continued until in 1836 our present chapel was built at a cost of  £237.3s7d.  The cottage was then dismantled and the best of the materials used to build a manse.  At that time the chapel was just a square box with a gallery across one end, Vestry, Baptistry, Schoolroom, out offices and entrance area all being added later.  In 1995 we undertook to create a new kitchen, disabled toilet and boiler room.  Since then we  extended the kitchen and opened part of the schoolroom to give extra seating.  With the increasing number of people who were attending fellowship and the many activities we were hosting, most of which took place in the main worship area ment that the premises were proving to be unsuitable.

NEW WORSHIP AREA. Work began in March 2019 on the start to the New Worship Area and is now complete. A little later then planned, this was due the Coronavirus situation. We have held several services in the new Worship area including a baptismal service but had to temperately suspend services due to the government lockdown.  Services are now being held again on Sunday at 10.30am and work has also been completed on linking the two buildings together.