1941

Casting the Vision

A group of Christian leaders meets to discuss their concern for the lack of believers engaged in biblical studies, and the effect of this on the Church. W. J. Martin, Lecturer in Hebrew at Liverpool University, proposes the founding of “a residential research library”.

3rd January 1945

A home for Bible scholarship

Tyndale House is officially opened by the Inter-Varsity Fellowship Trust (IVF, now UCCF) as ‘a library and research centre devoted to the highest and most permanent interest of biblical scholarship’.

August 1945

Summer School

A summer school is held at Tyndale House for the first time. There are five sessions each day, including papers read by various members, discussions, Greek Testament and Hebrew classes.

1950s

Publications that came out of Tyndale House in the 1950s‭:‬

1951 – F.F. Bruce published his first commentary: Acts of the Apostles: The Greek Text with Introduction and Commentary. This became IVF’s first major publication in which the imprint ‘Tyndale Press’ was used.

1952 – Leon Morris’s published thesis, The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross, is the second major works published by IVF under ‘Tyndale Press’ imprint.

1953 December – The New Bible Commentary is published and rapidly becomes a best seller, edited by Francis Davidson and Alan Stibbs. The contributors were by and large members of the Tyndale Fellowship.

1956 – The first issue of The Tyndale House Bulletin produced by Andrew Walls is published. The plan was to publish the Bulletin twice a year and it would report on work done in Tyndale House and in the Study Groups.

1952

Closing‭?‬

The house almost closes due to financial issues and a plan was made in January 1952 to sell Tyndale House and move the library to the London area.

Thankfully by July 1952, the financial position at Tyndale House begins to improve and the house can stay open.

April 1956

'The new wing'

The library is built and officially opened by John W. Laing on April 21st, 1956. Previously the library had been in the 1908 house. A stone is laid on the outside wall with the inscription, ‘The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom’.

September 1959

The Warden's House

Building of the Warden’s house begins. It is built on the site of a lawn on which J. Stafford Wright used to pitch a tent in preference to staying inside Tyndale House! This house is the Warden’s Lodge until it is adapted for family housing for post-graduates in the 1990s.