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Kingdom Hall,
130 Downend Road, BS16 5EE,
Fishponds, 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 1944, but we understand it was closed by 1946.

The evidence for this former Kingdom Hall lies in the following notice in The London Gazette of 12th November 1946 (p.5541):

NOTICE is hereby given that the Place of Meeting for religious worship described as KINGDOM HALL, situated at 130, Downend Road, Fishponds, in the registration district of Bristol in the county borough of Bristol which, was duly certified for worship on the 14th day of February, 1944, has wholly ceased, to be used as a Place of Meeting for religious worship by the congregation on whose behalf it was so certified, and that the Registrar-General has caused the record of the certification thereof to be cancelled pursuant to the Act 18 and 19 Vict., cap. 81 from the 7th day of November 1946. Dated 7th November 1946.

The building labelled as '130' is on the south side of Downend Road. It is single-storey, with a wide window, set at waist height, divided into square panes, taking up most of the front of the building, and a doorway to the right of it, taking up the remainder. The window is supported by a wall of brick, with a decorative panel featuring horizontal bars, which appear to be made of aluminium. It doesn't appear to be either a shop, or a private residence, so could, conceivably, have been built as the aforementioned Hall; but this remains questionable.

Denomination

Now or formerly Jehovah's Witness.

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 ST6420776271. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Kingdom Hall, Fishponds, 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 Fishponds, 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.