This page does not contain a comprehensive history of Ryde Baptist Church, which remains and continues to be written. However, from time to time interesting documents or articles will appear that help us to understand where we came from and why we are here.
Originally Christ Church, Ryde
Ministers of Ryde Baptist Church
1848 – 1850 William Newell
1850 – 1851 J H Saunders
1852 – 1854 D R Watson
1855 James Harrison
1855 E W Davies
1855 – 1859 Samuel Cox
1860 – 1864 J B Little
1864 – 1874 Thomas Astor Binns
1875 – 1880 J R Chamberlain
1880 – 1881 Harry Collings
1881 – 1887 William Steadman Davis
1888 – 1907 Edward Bruce Pearson
1908 – 1913 H H Turner
1914 – 1918 J E Compton
1919 – 1930 M Lister Gaunt
1931 – 1937 Herbert G Drake
1938 – 1944 P Franklin Chambers
1944 – 1946 W M Tristram
1947 – 1952 E J Willis
1953 – 1957 Walter Fancutt
1958 – 1963 Hugh Wrigley
1964 – 1966 A J Symonds
1967 – 1974 Idris L L Jones
1974 – 1981 Jeff Taylor
1981 – 1997 Gerald S Clarke
1998 – 2003 Richard G Steel
2003 – 2008 Jane R Kingsnorth
2010 – 2013 Howard J Heyburn
2015 – Kerry J Birch