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Manor House Children's Church (Private),
Beckspool Road, BS16 1NT,
Frenchay, 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

We don't know when this Place of Worship was founded, but we understand it is still open.

This place of worship first came to my attention as "Manor House Children's Church", listed in Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) with a Christian Fellowship congregation.

The Manor House, also known as Frenchay Manor, was built for Joseph Beck, a rich Quaker merchant in 1736. The British Listed Buildings website (under Winterbourne) provides an architectural description, and notes that at the time of their account (1952), it was a children's home. In the present day, however, it is managed by "Care Futures", with its principal function being to provide residential and respite care for adults - thus the entry of "Manor House Children's Church" in Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010), with a Christian Fellowship congregation, may be no longer appropriate.

The name of the road - "Beckspool" - is derived from "Beck's Pool" - Joseph Beck's Pool. There is a photograph of it taken around 1899 on Paul Townsend's Photographic Archive of Frenchay & Winterbourne.

Denomination

Now or formerly Care Home Chapel.

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 ST6412578103. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Manor House Children's Church (Private), Frenchay shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Frenchay 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 Frenchay, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• Learn more about Buildings of special or historical interest on the British Listed Buildings (null) (verified 2018-09-19)
• What can I say? Paul Townsend's collection of photographs, old and new, of Bristol is spectacular, focussing on his Photographic Archive of Frenchay & Winterbourne (null) (verified 2018-11-13)
• Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) is available as a "Freedom of Information" document on the website What Do They Know. (verified 2018-10-14)

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.