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Wycliffe Congregational Church (Demolished),
Windsor Terrace / St Luke's Crescent,
Totterdown, 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 1899, but we understand it was closed by 1980.

Wycliffe Congregational Church in Totterdown was on the north-west corner of the junction of St Luke's Crescent with Windsor Terrace. It is shown on Old Maps as a long narrow building, the longer side facing St Luke's Crescent, equivalent to the width of 8 houses, and as deep as the house plots.

The following notice in The London Gazette of 27th October 1899 (p.6469) recorded its registration for marriages:

NOTICE is hereby given, that a separate building named Wycliffe Congregational Church, situated at Windsor-terrace, Totterdown, in the civil parish of Bristol, in the county borough of Bristol, in the registration district of Bristol, being a building certified according to law as a place of meeting for religious worship, was on the 19th day of October, 1899, duly registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th Wm. 4, c.85. Dated 20th October, 1899.

A similar notice, published in the Gazette of 10th June 1980 (p.8360) recorded the cancellation of the registration, and also indicated the building was no longer used. Since then, it has been demolished, and a block of 3-storey town houses, named "Wycliffe Row", now occupies the site.

The Bristol Record Office hold records of marriages for the period 1901-1972 (as Congregational), and 1973-1974 (as URC).

Denomination

Now or formerly Congregational.

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 ST5962271575. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Wycliffe Congregational Church (Demolished), Totterdown, 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 Totterdown, 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.