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Oldland Common Gospel Hall,
High Street (A4175),
Oldland Common, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Church did 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 1926, but we understand it was closed in 1973.

The earliest occurrence of this place of worship on Old Maps is 1955 (1:10,560), where it is recorded as a "Mission Hall", but fortunately OS 1965 1:2.500 is more forthcoming, labelling it as "Oldland Common Gospel Hall".

According to a "Warmley Historical Timeline 1086-1999" in Paul Townsend's Flickr Photostream, "Oldland Gospel Hall" was built in 1926. It also mentions a Brethren Meeting Room in Cloverlea Road, which opened in 1906; both of them were however closed the same year, 1973.

The following notice, relating to the Gospel Hall, was published in The London Gazette of 11th December 1928 (p.8192):

"A Separate Building, duly certified for religious worship, named GOSPEL HALL, situate at Oldland Common, in the civil parish of Bitton, in the county of Gloucester, in Keynsham registration district, was, on the 4th December 1928, registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to 6 & 7 Wm. IV, c.85. Dated 6th December 1928.

To correspond with this, there is an entry in Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) for a Gospel Hall, Oldland Common, Bitton, with a congregation of Open Brethren, so it seems likely these are one and the same.

Denomination

Now or formerly Open Brethren.

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 was located at OS grid reference ST6796371984. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Oldland Common Gospel Hall, Oldland Common shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Oldland Common shown on a Google Map.
• Streetmap.co.uk (arrow on map shows the Place of Worship's location) (verified 2018-10-15)
• Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13)
• Bing Maps ('Bird's Eye' View) (verified 2018-10-15)
• Ordnance Survey "getamap" (NB some of the 'Change Map' options may require a subscription) (verified 2018-10-15)
• OpenStreetMap (Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA) (verified 2018-10-15)
• A Vision of Britain Through Time - useful for Boundary Changes (verified 2018-10-15)
• www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays) (verified 2018-10-15)

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 Oldland Common, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• Overview of Paul Townsend's Flickr Photostream (null) (verified 2018-11-07)
• Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) is available as a "Freedom of Information" document on the website What Do They Know. (verified 2018-10-14)
• Notices of Civil Registration of Places of Worship for marriages are published in the London edition of The Gazette. Hint: search for registrations from 1998 by choosing 'Church' notices, and the option 'Registration for solemnising marriage'. (verified 2018-12-11)

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.