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Tudor Road Methodist Church (now Church of God of Prophesy),
2 Tudor Road, BS5 6BW,
Lower Easton, Bristol, 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 1895, but we understand it was closed in 1964.

Phil Draper, on his ChurchCrawler website, records this Methodist Chapel as erected in 1895. It is built of dark stone, with contrasting pale stone dressings. The front has a large west window in the central bay, above a pointed-arched doorway, flanked by 2 smaller windows. The side bays have rectangular windows. Phil notes that the Chapel was opened by the Rev. Waller, president of conference, and that it has (had?) a resident male voice choir, still known as the Tudor Choir.

The following notice in The London Gazette of 7th February 1922 (p.1117) recorded its registration for marriages:

A Separate Building, duly certified for religious worship, named WESLEYAN CHAPEL, situated at Tudor-road, Easton, in the civil parish of Bristol, in the county borough of Bristol, in Bristol registration district, was, on the thirty-first January, 1922, registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to 6th and 7th Wm. IV, c.85. Dated 2nd February 1922.

A similar notice, published in the Gazette of 31st January 1964 (p.984) cancelled the registration as of 27th January 1964. The Church of God of Prophesy, who acquired the building after it closed, was registered for marriages the following year.

Denomination

Now or formerly Wesleyan 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 was located at OS grid reference ST6113474279. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Tudor Road Methodist Church (now Church of God of Prophesy), Lower Easton, 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 Lower Easton, Bristol, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• The Church officiando's “Bible” - Phil Draper's ChurchCrawler (null) (verified 2018-10-16)
• 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.