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Friends Meeting House,
Brook Street,
Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

This Church 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 1692, though it is now closed, but we don't yet know when.

I am indebted to 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 for the location of this Meeting House. They rightly describe it as "charming". It is a single storey building of 3 bays with central doorway, over which can best be described as a plain "tympanum". There are windows on either side with curved mouldings above them, and attached to the wall, below the eaves on the right side is a cross. Old Maps show there was a burial ground to the north of the Meeting House, which now appears to have been cleared. The building has a hipped roof covered in the typical pantiles of the area.

The return to the Religious Census of 1851 (HO 129/331/1/4/11) was completed on the special form for a "Meeting House of the Society of Friends. It describes it as "Chipping Sodbury Brook Street", erected "before 1800". There was seating for an estimated 120 persons, but only 3 worshippers attended morning service on March 30th. The return was completed by William Sturge, of "Yate, Glostershire".

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 was located at OS grid reference ST7257582280. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Friends Meeting House, Chipping Sodbury shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Chipping Sodbury 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 Chipping Sodbury, 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.