A Congregational Chapel was founded in Wymondham in 1652 making it one of the oldest Non-Conformist congregations in England. The congregation erected their own meeting house in 1715. The sect flourished in Wymondham and persisted through to modern times although latterly this became the United Reform Church.

Surviving records of this sect commence in the mid 18th Century, some were deposited with The National Archives under the direction of the 1837 act of Civil Registration and the remainder with the Norfolk Record Office. The deposit with the Norfolk Record Office is filmed on Microfilm MF1611 from which this transcript is prepared. This film is a relatively modern one and is of excellent quality. The records are written in a hand which requires some concentration to decipher but the clear film helps in this. As a consequence this was a straightforward transcript to prepare and it is to be hoped that few errors will have crept into its production.