Wesleyan Chapel (now Cossham Hall), Thornbury, Gloucestershire, Church History

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Wesleyan Chapel (now Cossham Hall), Thornbury

Wesleyan Chapel (now Cossham Hall),
Chapel Street,
Thornbury, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Chapel 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 1789, but we understand it was closed in 1878.

Cossham Hall is described in 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. According to their account, it was first built in 1789. John Wesley preached here the same year, and in 1790. The date on the front of the building is 1835, but this is apparently the date it was extended. It still proved too small, so it was replaced in 1878 by the present Methodist Church in the High Street.
The old Chapel building was purchased 10 years later (1888) by Thornbury's famous "son" Handel Cossham, who then presented it to the town for community use.
Handel was the son of Jesse Cossham and Sarah (née Shepherd), born in Thornbury in 1824 and baptised in 1825 at the Old Meeting House Independent Chapel in Stroud. Jesse Cossham was a carpenter, and he was one of the contractors involved in the extension and refurbishment of the Wesleyan Chapel, in 1835.

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 Chapel was located at OS grid reference ST6369589841. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Wesleyan Chapel (now Cossham Hall), Thornbury shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Thornbury 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 Thornbury, 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 11:21.

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This Report was created 23 Dec 2024 - 07:47:17 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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