Help Wanted: Collier Street Particular Baptist Chapel

I am trying to find out something of the history of the chapel that stood for about 40 years on what is now the B2162 just north of Collier Street at the hamlet of Mockbeggar. When I visited the site last summer, there were traces of bricks and tiles on an otherwise derelict patch of ground opposite the Village Hall. A subsequent visit has revealed a solitary tombstone. The 1908 OS map shows the site as a burial ground, but the 1858 map marks a Baptist Chapel there.

A license was issued for a meeting house of Particular Baptists at Collier Street in 1844, and the chapel is referred to in the 1855 Kelly's Directory for Yalding. It is mentioned in subsequent Directories to 1882, but is not in the 1889 edition.

I have found no other documentary evidence at the Centre for Kentish Studies. No church records appear to have survived.

If any members know anything of this chapel or its members, or can suggest possible further lines of enquiry, I would be grateful if they would let me know.

Ken Jackson