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Emmanuel Holiness Church,
70-72 City Road / Brigstocke Road, BS2 8TX,
St Paul, 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 1956, but we understand it was closed by 1988.

This building was probably built for the United Christian Jewish Church, who had been meeting in Milk Street in the City Centre from about 1931.

The following notice in The London Gazette of 24th February 1956 (p.1167) recorded its registration for marriages:

A Building certified for worship named UNITED CHRISTIAN JEWISH CHURCH, City Road, in the registration district of Bristol, in the county borough of Bristol, was on 17th February, 1956, registered for solemnising marriages therein, pursuant to section 42 of the Marriage Act, 1949, in place of the United Christian Jewish Church, 58 and 60, Wild Street, now disused. Dated 20th February 1956.

It is assumed "Wild Street" is a mis-rendering of "Milk Street".

Old Maps of 1971 show the building on the south-east corner of the junction of City Road and Brickstocke Road, labelling it as "Emmanuel Holiness Church (Jewish)". Evidently it became known as such, as a notice in the Gazette of 15th February 1988 (p.1764) cancelling its registration for marriages recorded it likewise.

By 1992, the building had been taken over by the Wesleyan Holiness Church, but the word "Holiness" in the title appears to be coincidental, as the latter is an Evangelical Protestant denomination, with its roots in John Wesley's Methodism.

There is no trace of a United Christian Jewish Church in Bristol in the present day.

Denomination

Now or formerly Christian Jewish.

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 ST5931673958. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Emmanuel Holiness Church, St Paul, 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 St Paul, Bristol, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• 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.