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Demolished.
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Pembroke Hall (Demolished),
7-9 Terrell Street,
St James, 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 by 1936, and it has since been demolished, but we don't know when.

The evidence for the existence of this former place of worship lies in the following notice in The London Gazette of 17th November 1936 (p.7440):

A Separate Building, duly certified for religious worship, named PEMBROKE HALL, situated at 7-9, Terrell Street, St. James, in the civil parish of Bristol, in Bristol registration district, in the county borough of Bristol, was, on the 10th November, 1936, registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to 6 & 7 Will. IV, c.85. Dated 11th November 1936.

Old Maps suggest #7-9 was on the south side of the street. This part of Terrell Street has long since been cleared, but over the years it has been "home" to 2 other places of worship - the New Jerusalem Church (Swedenborgian), on the north side, and Elim Church, on the same side as Pembroke Hall. All were, as far as I can tell, separate premises.

It is possible, but by no means certain, that Pembroke Hall was connected with the Congregational Pembroke Chapel, in Oakfield Road, Clifton, which was closed in 1929.

Denomination

Now or formerly Mission Hall.

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 ST5858373442. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Pembroke Hall (Demolished), St James, 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 James, 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.