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Demolished.
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Orchard Street Brethren Chapel (Demolished),
Orchard Street / Orchard Lane, BS1 5EH,
Bristol, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Chapel 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 before 1884, but we understand it was closed before 1938.

This Christian Brethren Hall is shown on the Bristol Town Plans of 1884 situated on the south-east corner of the junction of Orchard Street and Orchard Lane - quite a large, rectangular building, with seats for 450. It backed onto St Augustine's Hall.

Kelly's Directory of 1914 records it between #24 Orchard Street, the residence of Henry Shill, and #25, offices of Oatley & Lawrence, architects, with Orchard Lane running between the two. This plot is now occupied by a building named Weston House, 24A Orchard Street. It is a Listed Building of three stories, with basement, erected in 1938 as offices, and described on the British Listed Buildings website as "an attempt to relate a C20 building to an early Georgian terrace".

Orchard Street is a cul-de-sac. The Unity Street end is narrow, but it broadens out past the junction with Orchard Lane, and thence to Weston House, suggesting, perhaps that it was the more affluent end.

Denomination

Now or formerly Christian Brethren.

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 was located at OS grid reference ST5845672934. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Orchard Street Brethren Chapel (Demolished), 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 Bristol, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• Learn more about Buildings of special or historical interest on the British Listed Buildings (null) (verified 2018-09-19)

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.