Potters Wood Methodist Church, Kingswood, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Church History

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Potters Wood Methodist Church, Kingswood, Bristol

Potters Wood Methodist Church,
Hanham Road / Pow's Road, BS15 9QA,
Kingswood, Bristol, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Church does 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 1893, and we understand it is still open.

This is an interesting church, with a very modern look, which belies its original foundation. Potters Wood Methodist was founded in 1893, in a "tin tabernacle" in Moravian Road - its position indicated on one of the aerial views of the Douglas Motorcycle Works by a contributor to the Britain from Above website.
Today's church was opened in 1957 (according to Phil Draper, on his ChurchCrawler website), and is built of brick, to a T-shaped plan, with 5 tall windows at the front, and the cross-pieces to the 'T' providing ancillary space at the rear.
The following notice was published in The London Gazette of 20th January 1959 (p.500) relating to its registration for solemnizing marriages:
A Building certified for worship named POTTERS WOOD METHODIST CHURCH, Hanham Road, Kingswood, in the registration district of Kingswood, in the county of Gloucester, was on 12th January 1959, registered for solemnizing marriages therein pursuant to section 41 of the Marriage Act, 1949 as amended by section 1(1) of the Marriage Acts Amendment Act, 1958. Date 15th January 1959.
As well as having its own website, you will also find information about it on the website of the Bristol & South Gloucestershire Methodist Circuit.

Denomination

Now or formerly 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 ST6485973289. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Potters Wood Methodist Church, Kingswood, Bristol shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Bristol 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 Kingswood, Bristol, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

“Features images from the Aerofilms collection - more than 2000 photograph albums, dating from 1919 to 2006 - Britain from Above (null) (verified 2018-11-23)
The Church officiando's “Bible” - Phil Draper's ChurchCrawler (null) (verified 2018-10-16)
There are over 40 churches in the Bristol & South Gloucestershire Methodist Circuit (null) (verified 2018-11-01)
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.

Information last updated on 1 Nov 2018 at 12:23.

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This Report was created 21 Dec 2024 - 12:05:07 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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