Gloucestershire Places of Worship

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St Luke's Methodist Church, Gloucester
St Luke's Methodist Church,
Stroud Road / Robinson Road,
Gloucester, 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 1904, but we understand it was closed in 2008.

Founded originally as 'The Bible Christian Methodist Chapel', by a group of Bible Christians, foundation stones of the building were laid on 10th December 1903, with completion of the premises, which included a school, the following year. The new school was opened in May, and the chapel premises on 27th October 1904, for which "a little band of eight women voluntarily scrubbed the chairs and floors of the whole premises, and then decorated the Lord's House with flowers". [Bible Christian Magazine, 1904 p.556]

It has been noted as 'Tuffley Bible Christian Chapel' in a 1906 Directory, but in 1907, one of the founders, Henry Ward Kelley, left to join a church in Cardiff, and the Connexion were joined by two other Methodist groups, and it became known as 'Stroud Road United Methodist Church'.

It was renamed to 'St Luke's Methodist Chapel' in 1955, when the congregation were joined by those of Ryecroft Methodist Chapel, when incidentally, the War Memorials from their building were also transferred to the church.

In 2008 it was sold by the Methodist Church, and is now home to Gloucester Community Church. [Other Sources: City of Gloucester Places of Worship on Stuart Flight's "Glosgen" website, and John Williams]

Denomination

Now or formerly United Methodist.

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 SO8337017154. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

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 Gloucester, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

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.

Information last updated on 27 Nov 2018 at 11:16.

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This Report was created 6 Dec 2024 - 21:04:00 GMT from information held in the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 13 Oct 2021 at 14:13.

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