Andrew Fuller - Kettering

The last stop of our day was in Kettering at the Fuller Baptist Church. This was the church Andrew Fuller pastored. To the left I am standing in the origianal pulpit of Andrew Fuller that is now located on the second floor of the church.

Below and to the right I am standing in the pulpit that is now located in the sanctuary.

Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) was an eminent Baptist minister, born in Cambridgeshire, and settled at Kettering.

William Carey said that, "Andrew Fuller held the ropes that lowered me into the pit." This was speaking of William Carey's great missionary journey to India.

Fuller was a zealous controversialist in defence of the gospel against hyper-Calvinism on the one hand and Socinianism and Sandemanianism on the other, but he is chiefly distinguished in connection with the foundation of the Baptist Missionary Society, to which he for most part devoted the energies of his life.

During his life, Fuller pastored two congregations -- Soham (1775-1782) and Kettering (1782-1815). He died May 7, 1815 at Kettering, Northamptonshire.