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Other Places of Worship in this Area Frenchay, Wesleyan Meeting Room (0.08m.) Frenchay, Manor House Children's Church (Private) (0.14m.) Frenchay, Frenchay Chapel (0.2m.) Frenchay, St John the Baptist's Church (0.27m.) Frenchay, Frenchay Methodist Church (Providence Chapel) (0.3m.) Frenchay, St John Fisher Catholic Church (0.47m.) Hambrook, Frenchay, St Elizabeth's Hall (0.73m.) Whiteshill, Winterbourne, Whiteshill Evangelical Church (0.9m.) Downend, Mangotsfield, First Church of Christ, Scientist (0.92m.) Downend, Mangotsfield, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1st Ward) (0.95m.) Fishponds, Oldbury Court Church (0.95m.) Downend, Mangotsfield, Badminton Road Methodist Church (0.97m.) Note: distances (in miles) are calculated as the crow flies; it may be further by road or on foot.

Default Image We do not have a Photograph at present. Image by courtesy of openclipart.org Friends (Quakers) Meeting House, Frenchay Friends (Quakers) Meeting House, Beckspool Road, BS16 1NT, Frenchay, 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 about 1654, and we understand it is still open. Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses, Gloucestershire (1986) record that Friends' Meetings were being held in the vicinity of Frenchay from about 1654. The first meeting house, believed to have been built around 1670-73, was registered in 1689. It was replaced in 1808-9 by the present building, which has a stable wing at the front, above which a women's meeting-house was built in 1815. It also mentions a burial ground at the rear, accessed by a through passage at the south end of the main building. At the time of the Religious Census of 1851 (HO 129/330/6/5/20) it was said to be built "before 1800". There was seating for 200 "on the floor", and 84 in the galleries; and the estimated attendance on March 30 was 34 in the morning only. The return was completed by Philip D. Tuckett, of "Frenchay near Bristol". The notice on the front of the building reads: Religious Society / Friends (Quakers) / Meeting House / Built 1673 ~ Rebuilt 1809 / Public Meeting for Worship / Every Sunday / Children's Class Sunday. Denomination Now or formerly Quaker. 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 ST6411877880. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window: Friends (Quakers) Meeting House, Frenchay shown on a Google Map. Places of Worship in Frenchay 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) Information last updated on 10 May 2013 at 12:50.

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This Report was created 21 Dec 2024 - 15:58:57 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.