The history of Reading’s longest used non-conformist chapel (1660s-1983) both sketches an outline of the tradition of religious dissent in the area and details the characters of the people involved in this Independent (Congregationalist) chapel over the centuries. A numbered edition of 700 hand lettered and illustrated by the author

‘Packed tight with well researched information’
Civic Society newsletter Winter 1996

read an extract from Broad Street Chapel

There is little sound in the dim cavernous hall. A little light filters in from the schoolroom roof. Patches of plaster hang off the ceiling. The smell of must and pigeon droppings is everywhere. In the central hall the pews have been ripped up and piled against the formerly handsome mahogany pulpit; in the corridors half the floorboards are missing. Holes gape in the roof. An unplayable piano sits, lid open, amid a pile of broken chairs.....