Stapleton Road Chapel, Easton, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Church History

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Stapleton Road Chapel, Easton, Bristol

Stapleton Road Chapel,
Stapleton Road / Newton Street, BS5 0QZ,
Easton, Bristol, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Chapel 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 1867, and we understand it is still open.

The full title of this place of worship, as written on the board outside the church is "The Congregational Centre, Stapleton Road Chapel". It is unusual in more ways than one. Phil Draper, on his ChurchCrawler website describes it as a "large Bristol Byzantine building... rather an original work". He also points out it has retained its Congregational roots, and did not join the United Reformed Church.
It has a 3 bay front - the central bay having a group of three entrance archways, the central one wider than the others, and split into two. Above this is a Venetian style window. The clock, above the window, is an unusual feature. It has only quarter-hour divisions, and the legend on the clock face - "Time to Seek the Lord". The sides are of 6 bays, and there is a large Sunday School block at the rear.
It is shown on Bristol Town Maps of 1885 as having seating for 1000. Phil says it dates from 1867. This is confirmed by the Congregational Federation website. Coincidentally, perhaps, John Latimer, in The Annals of Bristol in the Nineteenth Century (1887), records that the "Goodhind estate", near Stapleton Road, was sold in building lots during the autumn of that year.
The following notice in The London Gazette of 25th February 1873 (p.796):
NOTICE is hereby given, that a separate building, named Stapleton-road Chapel, situated at Stapleton-road, St. Philip and Jacob, in the county of Gloucester, in the district of Clifton, being a building certified according to law as a place of religious worship, was, on the 19th day of February, 1873, duly registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th Wm. IV., cap. 80. Dated 20th February 1873.
A similar notice for the "Congregational School Rooms, situate at Newton-street, Stapleton-road, in the parish of St. Philip and Jacob, in the city and county of Bristol", had been published on 17th December 1869 (p.7146) - so seemingly their building was completed before that of the main Chapel!

Denomination

Now or formerly Congregational.

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 is located at OS grid reference ST6010773597. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Stapleton Road Chapel, 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 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)
A network of Independent Free Churches following the Congregational tradition - the Congregational Federation (null) (verified 2018-11-02)
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.

Information last updated on 15 Mar 2018 at 12:52.

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This Report was created 22 Dec 2024 - 13:23:54 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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