Since St Cedd landed and brought Christianity into this area religion has been an important part of local life. Parish Churches of the Church of England are amongst the oldest and most prominent building and as such have been chronicled on this web site.

Churches of other Christian faiths are to be found in this area and this page attempts to record some of these churches.

Church Facts

The Baptist Church was built in 1904 although there are copies of accounts of a Baptist Church in Burnham from 1691.   St Cuthberts Church was built in about 1911.     In 1976 local Jehovah Witnesses bought premises in Crouch Road to become their Kingdon Hall. They outgrew the premises and erected a new church in Foundry lane during 1999.   n 1862 a Congregational Church was erected on the current site of Barclays Bank until it was destroyed by fire in 1946. The current building was erected in 1950. The former Methodist Church known as the six of diamonds due to its decorative pattern   he Congregational church merged with the Methodist Church, which had been in place since 1862, to form the URC and the Methodists closed their chapel in Albert Road. During the 1800's many worshippers could not reach the churches and so the Marsh mission was built in the marshland near to the sea. This building fell into disuse and was moved to the rear of the URC church where it stood until recently.

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The former Methodist Church known as the six of diamonds due to its decorative pattern