Salem Methodist Church, Watleys End, Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, Church History

Gloucestershire Places of Worship

Default Image Sorry, we do not have an Image of this Place of Worship

We do not have a
Photograph at present.
Image by courtesy of
openclipart.org

Salem Methodist Church, Watleys End, Winterbourne

Salem Methodist Church,
Factory Road, BS36 1QL,
Watleys End, Winterbourne, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

This Church has (or had) 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 1787, and we understand it is still open.

This building is admirably described by Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses, Gloucestershire (1986) as opened 1790, with rubble walls and a slate roof. The broad west front has three round-arched windows with altered glazing and a late 19th century gabled porch. There are two similar windows in the rear wall, and one upper window in the north end. There is a small two-storey Sunday School attached to the south, and another two-story addition to the north. Inside is a 19th century north gallery. The monuments in a large burial ground at the front of the building date from 1830.
The return to the Religious Census of 1851 (HO 129/330/6/4/16) records it as "Wadleys End Chapel", a separate building, erected "about 1786" with a congregation of "Wesleyan Methodist Reformers", and used exclusively as a place of worship. There were 150 free, and 200 "other" sittings. The average congregation was 140 at morning service, and 180 in the evenings, with 90 Sunday Scholars to morning and afternoon classes. The return was completed by Isaac Budgett, the Chapel Steward, whose address was "Winterbourne, near Bristol".
The list of places of worship recorded in the leaflet South Gloucestershire Nonconformist Heritage Trail (PTE050151.pdf) available (in 2013) on South Gloucestershire Council website records that John Wesley himself laid the foundation stone in 1787. Their account also mentions that Factory Road was so named after a Hat Factory once worked here.

Denomination

Now or formerly Wesleyan Methodist.

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 ST6581881056. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Salem Methodist Church, Watleys End, Winterbourne shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Winterbourne 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 Watleys End, Winterbourne, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

The Local Government website of South Gloucestershire Council (null) (verified 2018-11-09)

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 10 Nov 2018 at 11:24.

Search for other Places of Worship in Gloucestershire, or in another County in this Database

Please choose a County by selecting one of the Tabs below.
Note: you MUST choose a County - searching all four at once is not an option!

Derbyshire

Gloucestershire

Herefordshire

Worcestershire

Photo	Place or OS GridRef	Dedication (optional)	Street (optional)	How Many	Denomination

Search Tips:

You can specify either a Place, or OS Grid Reference to search for. When you specify a Place, only entries for that place will be returned, with Places of Worship listed in alphabetical order. If you specify a Grid Reference, Places of Worship in the immediate vicinity will be listed, in order of distance from the Grid Reference supplied. The default is to list 10, but you can specify How Many you want to see, up to a maximum of 100.

You can further refine your search by supplying other search terms.

You can specify entries with ('Yes') or without ('No') photographs.

You can specify a church or chapel's Dedication, to restrict entries to those containing the term you supply as a dedication. So for instance, 'John' would return 'St John', 'St Mary and St John', 'St John the Divine' &c.

You can specify a Street address, and likewise 'George' will return George Place, St George's Street, George and Dragon, &c.

You can restrict the search to classes of Denomination. The exact denomination is always shown in the results, although the search is for broad types. Thus you can search for 'Methodist', but not 'Wesleyan Methodist' or 'Primitive Methodist'. 'Multi-denominational' includes Ecumenical Partnerships, and 'Miscellaneous' means anything not covered by other broad classes.

Please note the above provides a search of selected fields in the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship Database on this site (churchdb.gukutils.org.uk) only. For other counties, or for a full search of the Database, you might like to try the site's Google Custom Search, which includes full webpage content.

Further Information

This site provides historical information about churches, other places of worship and cemeteries. It has no affiliation with the churches or congregations themselves, nor is it intended to provide a means to find places of worship in the present day.

Please also remember that whilst the above account may suggest that Salem Methodist Church remains open and accessible, this may not remain so.

Do not copy any part of this page or website other than for personal use or as given in our Terms and Conditions of Use.

You may wish to take a look at our About the Places of Worship Database page for an overview of the information provided, and any limitations which may be present.

This Report was created 17 Nov 2024 - 13:29:58 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.

URL of this page: https://churchdb.gukutils.org.uk/GLS1276.php

Logo by courtesy of the Open Clip Art Library