First Baptist Church in Swansea, Baptist church in Swansea, Massachusetts, United States
The First Baptist Church is a church building in Swansea, Massachusetts, featuring Greek Revival style with a square tower and lancet-point windows set in the gables. The property includes a parish house from the 1960s and sits at the intersection of Church Street and Gardner's Neck Road.
The congregation was established in 1663 by John Myles and represents the oldest Baptist assembly in Massachusetts. The current church building was dedicated in 1915, replacing earlier meeting places where the community had gathered.
The congregation preserves the Ilston Book, brought from Swansea, Wales, which records early Baptist practices and how religious life developed in colonial Massachusetts.
The building is easy to locate at the intersection of Church Street and Gardner's Neck Road in central Swansea. The site is accessible from several streets and offers parking on the property.
The cemetery dates back to 1731 and holds graves of early settlers who helped shape the region's religious history. The gravestones there tell stories of people who lived through the founding years of the colony.
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