Gloucestershire Places of Worship

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St George's Church, Tuffley, Gloucester
St George's Church,
Grange Road, GL4 0PE,
Tuffley, Gloucester, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Church does NOT have a graveyard.

Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.

Church History

This Place of Worship was founded in 1941, and we understand it is still open.

When new housing was being built to the West of the railway line, a Deacon from St Barnabas's Church in Stroud Road was given special responsibility for the developing area, and services were begun in the estate office in Randwick Road, in February 1941.

The first building to be dedicated to St George was made of wood. It was given to the mission by Mrs. A.M. JEUNE of Whaddon, where it had been the church hall. It was dismantled and moved to a site in Grange Road in 1942. This was replaced by a temporary church in 1947.

St George's continued to be 'under the wing' of St Barnabas until 1948, when it became a Conventional District; then later (in 1967) it became a parish in its own right. The present church was built and consecrated in 1956. It was designed originally as a church hall, but it has been altered and enlarged since then. [Source: John Williams, and Rosemary Lockie, from the Victoria County History series: A History of the County of Gloucester, Volume 4: The City of Gloucester (1988), pp.311-317 (Modern Parish Churches)]

Denomination

Now or formerly Church of England.

If more than one congregation has worshipped here, or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this will record its original dedication.

Maps

This Church is located at OS grid reference SO8235514990. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Resources

I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Tuffley, Gloucester, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

The above links were selected and reviewed at the time I prepared the information, but please be aware their content may vary, or disappear entirely. These factors are outside my control.

Information last updated on 30 Dec 2014 at 15:24.

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This Report was created 14 Nov 2024 - 17:12:32 GMT from information held in the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 13 Oct 2021 at 14:13.

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