
For the next fifty years attendance and membership rose and fell at intervals. From 1884 Sunday services were held in a new church building on the other side of the Warwick Road, with the cottage and chapel being retained as a Sunday School room and a meeting place. Just before the First World War a local reporter wrote that 'the Congs were a caring and vigorous community - a description the present membership want to be applied to them nearly 100 years later.