Gloucestershire Places of Worship

Default Image Sorry, we do not have an Image of this Place of Worship We do not have a
Photograph at present.

Image by courtesy of
openclipart.org
Compton Baptist Chapel, Compton Abdale
Compton Baptist Chapel,
White Way,
Compton Abdale, 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 1830, but we understand it was closed before 1902.

The return to the Religious Census of 1851 (HO 129/341/2/5/11) for "Compton Baptist Chapel" indicates a separate building for a congregation of Particular Baptists, built in 1830, and used "for Religious Worship only" with free seating for 90. The average attendance was 35 in the afternoons, and 50 to evening services. The return was completed by Jacob Short, its Deacon, whose resided at "25 Exmouth St., Cheltenham, Gloster Shire".

As far as I am able to tell, from a comparison of the location of the "Baptist Chapel (Particular)" marked Old Maps of 1883-1884, and the present day, its building still exists, though now obviously in residential occupation. Note also it had a separate existence to the Primitive Methodist Chapel indicated on the later series of Maps dated 1902, by which time the Baptist Chapel is no longer marked.

The name of the road - "White Way" - is marked on Maps of 1979.

Denomination

Now or formerly Particular Baptist.

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 SP0629116806. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Information last updated on 9 Jan 2014 at 08:16.

Search for other Places of Worship in Gloucestershire, or in another County in this Database

Please choose a County by selecting one of the Tabs below.
Note: you MUST choose a County - searching all four at once is not an option!

Search Tips:

You can specify either a Place, or OS Grid Reference to search for. When you specify a Place, only entries for that place will be returned, with Places of Worship listed in alphabetical order. If you specify a Grid Reference, Places of Worship in the immediate vicinity will be listed, in order of distance from the Grid Reference supplied. The default is to list 10, but you can specify How Many you want to see, up to a maximum of 100.

You can further refine your search by supplying other search terms.

Please note the above provides a search of selected fields in the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship Database on this site (churchdb.gukutils.org.uk) only. For other counties, or for a full search of the Database, you might like to try the site's Google Custom Search, which includes full webpage content.

Further Information

This site provides historical information about churches, other places of worship and cemeteries. It has no affiliation with the churches or congregations themselves, nor is it intended to provide a means to find places of worship in the present day.

Do not copy any part of this page or website other than for personal use or as given in our Terms and Conditions of Use.

You may wish to take a look at our About the Places of Worship Database page for an overview of the information provided, and any limitations which may be present.

This Report was created 19 Nov 2024 - 05:16:10 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.

URL of this page: https://churchdb.gukutils.org.uk/GLS1467.php
Logo by courtesy of the Open Clip Art Library