What is recorded here

This blue commemorative plaque records: Unitarian Chapel The oldest Nonconformist building in Bridgwater Built 1688. Re-built 1788. Restored 1988. Reverend John Norman, ejected from the Parish Church in 1662, a former protege of Admiral Robert Blake, founded the congregation with his friends and followers. The first Sunday school in the town was established here during the ministry of Reverend Thomas Watson (1755-1793). Recorded plaque organisation: Bridgwater and District Civic Society.

Rev John Norman was a prominent Nonconformist minister who, after being ejected from the Parish Church during the Restoration, founded a Unitarian congregation in Bridgwater, leading to the establishment of the oldest Nonconformist building there in 1688.

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