Evangel Mission Hall, Kingswood, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Church History

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Evangel Mission Hall, Kingswood, Bristol

Evangel Mission Hall,
King Street, BS15 1DL,
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 1881, and we understand it is still open.

The Evangel [sic] Mission Hall is recorded in Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) with an address of "Two Mile Hill", and a congregation belonging to "Evangel Mission". It is situated between 21A and 23 King Street (even numbers are on the opposite side of the road). It is shown for the first time (as a "Mission Hall") on Old Maps of 1903-1904 - not on the earlier Maps of 1882-1888, when only the end of King Street nearest to Two Mile Hill had been developed.
Another clue to its origins may be found in a rather unexpected source, on the Brass Band Results website, which records the Chapel's Silver Band as active from 1881. The Band, known variously as "Kingswood Evangelical Silver Prize", "Kingswood Evangelist", "Kingswood Evangel Mission", "Kingswood Evangel Silver", and "Kingswood Evangel Silver Mission", is recorded as having taken place in competitions between 1905 and 1963, mainly in the West of England, but also for several years between 1906 and 1926, at Crystal Palace.
The Bristol preacher "fiery evangelist Robert Bateman" was also associated with the Mission. He was born in Stapleton in 1859, and became a Baptist Minister at the age of 21. He later emigrated to America, where he founded the Central City Mission in Jacksonville, Florida. "But in 1912 he returned to Bristol to arrange a headstone for his mother's grave at the village of Downend... He ran a revival meeting at Kingswood's Evangel Mission Hall, and the Mission's brass band led a procession of 100 people which escorted him to Staple Hill station when he left".
The ship he was on his way to board was the ill-fated Titanic. "The movies and books about the Titanic end with death... Robert Bateman, until his last breath, carried people to life" - he conducted the remaining passengers in singing Abide With Me as the ship went down - for further details, and a photograph of "Uncle Bob", see Paul Townsend's Flickr Photostream.

Denomination

Now or formerly Evangel Mission.

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 ST6380173902. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Evangel Mission Hall, 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.

A rather splendid site, “building a comprehensive set of world-wide brass band contest results”… Brass Band Results (null) (verified 2018-11-12)
Overview of Paul Townsend's Flickr Photostream (null) (verified 2018-11-07)
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.

Information last updated on 5 Feb 2014 at 10:45.

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This Report was created 26 Dec 2024 - 13:12:28 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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