The Boston Road mission is a Baptist mission associated with the West Croydon Baptist Church, Whitehorse Road (Spurgeon’s Tabernacle). And it is one of the remaining two missions of the West Croydon Baptist Church. The other is the Joynson Memorial Hall on Pawsons Road, Thornton Health.
On the 16th of June 1878, Mr Denman, a Sunday school teacher at the West Croydon Chaple, now West Croydon Baptist Church, approached the elders to plan a church at Stanley Road North and Lower York Road, now Boston Road and Wortley Road.
It was initially named Stanley and Boston Road Mission Chapel. The early building was a Tin Tab structure erected on the corner of Stanley Rd North and Lower York Rd in 1880 (Perriss, 2011).
Stanley and Boston Road Mission Chapel 1880
The original building of Boston Road Mission in Croydon was an iron building of the type known as “Tin Tabs” bought from the Wesleyans at Tooting for £330 and erected on the corner of Boston Road (then known as Stanley Rd North) & Wortley Rd (then known as Lower York Rd) in 1880 and first known as Stanley and Boston Road Mission Chapel. Mr Denman, sometime in 1879, was appointed superintendent of both the work at Lower York and Joynson Memorial Hall.
