The following text is the appeal document, drawn up by Joseph Acock and the principal Naunton Deacons, requesting financial help for the building of Guiting Chapel :

The parish of Lower Guiting in the County of Gloucestershire contains 800 inhabitants, chiefly agricultural labourers, with service in the parish church once on the Sabbath. Near to this village are Kineton and Barton in the parish of Upper Guiting, and Roel, a small parish of itself, in neither of which is there any place of worship. In a cottage belonging to a member of the Baptist Church of Naunton (W Robbins) the late Mr Bradley, pastor of the same Church, preached occasionally, and in January 1825 Joseph Acock commenced preaching in his school room and continued to do so, once or twice a week, until June 1832 when he removed to Naunton. In a few months after, the use of the cottage where Mr Bradley had preached was again obtained and the usual Sabbath and weekday services continued.

The indifference of the people to the means had been lamentable, but now a better spirit was manifested, many attended who could not obtain room and in the summer season the services were often held in the open air, and more frequently, the preacher stood at the door to enable those outside to hear.

With these encouraging appearances an elligible piece of freehold land has been purchased and presented by a member of Naunton Church, preparations are making for the erection of a plain place of worship, thirty four feet by twenty two, inside.

The friends at Naunton and its immediate neighbourhood hope it will appear they have done what they could, and they repectfully solicit the kind assistance of the followers of the Redeemer and friends of village preaching of all denominations. The chapel will be immediately invested in trust, for the use of the Baptist denomination.

Signed July 2nd 1837

Joseph Acock Pastor

Robert Comely } Deacons
Isaac Wood }

Here is a list of the main benefactors :

£145 / 4 / 6 Naunton and Guiting and immediate area
£ 18 / 13 / 6 Bourton-on-the-Water
£ 1 / 7 /6 Stow-on-the-Wold
£ 1 / 6 / 0 Broadway
£ 1 / 7 / - Northleach
£ - / 4 / - Hook Norton
£ 2 / 8 / 9 Lechlade
£ 4 / 5 / 6 Fairford
£ 1 / 4 / - Campden
£ - / 15 / - Atch Lench
£ 10 / 17 / 6 Tewkesbury
£ 39 / 17 / 6 Other individual benefactors
£ 35 / 0 / 0 Baptist Building Fund
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£262 / 10 / 9