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Salvation Army (Wellington Hall),
Longsmith Street, GL1 2HJ,
Gloucester, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Church 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 1879, but we understand it was closed in 1888.

Wellington Hall, now occupied by Antiques and Flea Market "Fab & Faded" in Longsmith Street, was the original meeting place of the Salvation Army in Gloucester - where they 'opened fire', as it were. Meetings were held there under the leadership of Pamela Shepherd. Some of its early open-air meetings and marches were disrupted... but on the day of the 1881 census of places of worship... people attended special morning and evening services in the skating rink at the former Boothall - in the evening, as many as 1,200. Soon after, in 1888, they established a permanent barracks in Kingsbarton Street, for which see the separate entry in this database. [Source: A History of the County of Gloucester, Volume 4: The City of Gloucester (1988), pp.319-335 (Protestant Nonconformity)]

Wellington Hall was later the home of the Gloucester Dairy Supply Ltd. of which there are details, and a photograph in Jill Voyce's book Gloucester in Old Photographs (from the Walwin Collection, 1989)

Denomination

Now or formerly Salvation Army.

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 SO8303518487. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Salvation Army (Wellington Hall), Gloucester shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Gloucester 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 Gloucester, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• The Victoria County History series: A History of the County of Gloucester, Volume 4: The City of Gloucester (null) (verified 2018-11-06)

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.