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Demolished.
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Meeting Hall (Demolished),
4 Ashgrove Road, BS6 6LY,
Redland, 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

We don't know when this Place of Worship was founded, but we understand it was closed in 1990.

This "Meeting Hall" first came to my attention in the listing of Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) at the said address, and with a congregation of "Christians not otherwise designated".

The following notice in The London Gazette of 26th July 1990 (p.12414) recorded its closure:

The Registrar General, being satisfied that [...], and Meeting Hall, 4 Ashgrove Road, Redland, Bristol, in the registration district of Bristol, in the Non-Metropolitan County of Avon, have wholly ceased to be used as places of worship by the congregations on whose behalf they were certified in accordance with the Places of Religious Worship Certifying Act 1852, or Places of Worship Registration Act 1855, has cancelled the record of their certifications. Dated 20th July 1990.

The building was not marked on any Old Maps I am aware of, but I have assumed it is the building adjacent to #5 and #6 Ashgrove Road, a site which is today occupied by a modern four-storey pseudo-regency building - presumably apartments.

Denomination

Now or formerly Christians.

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 ST5769274338. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Meeting Hall (Demolished), Redland, 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 Redland, Bristol, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• 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)
• 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.