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St Mark's Church (now 'Destiny Temple'),
Worcester Street, GL1 3AS,
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 1847, but we understand it was closed in 2006.

St Mark's is early Victorian, designed and built 1845-7 by Francis Niblett. It was until recently one of the Churches in the Gloucester City Benefice, at the time "a union of parishes in the centre of the ancient city of Gloucester, which incorporates 13 mediaeval parishes and 2 nineteenth century ones, with six churches still remaining, of which four are in regular Anglican use". However the last service was held on 29th October 2006, when it was closed for Anglican worship. The official closure date, as recorded in the Church Commissioners Report on Pastoral and Closed Churches in Gloucester Diocese, on the Church of England website was 3rd November 2006. Its subsequent use, from 7th October 2008, was defined as "worship by other Christian bodies" - initially, meetings of a branch of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, but now (2014), it appears, by an independent body, known as "Destiny Temple". [Other Sources: City of Gloucester Places of Worship on Stuart Flight's "Glosgen" website, and John Williams]

The Inscriptions on the War Memorial read:

Jesu, Mercy, May They Rest in Peace
Sidney CLEAVER	William SANDERS	James WHITTY	Richard CROMWELL
Ernest CUMMINGS	Walter DAVIS	George MAYALL	Albert BLUNT
William DALLEY	Albert RICHARDS	Frederick BARTLETT	Albert WHITE
George HAYWARD	Edwin KNIGHT	William PALMER	Charles DAVIS
George Wm. HAYWARD	Leonard STEVENS	Charles SPACKMAN	Christopher CAUSON
William OGDEN	Hubert FRANKLIN	Charles PATES	Harry BURLTON
Charles PRICE	Frank CAUSON	Arthur PATES	Charles HOPTON
Bernard ROACH	Frederick HEATH	William BIFFIN	Walter SPARROW
Edward ROGERS	William MORGAN	Alfred COLLIER	Wallace ORCHARD
Henry TRENFIELD	Wallis BAYLIS	Frank LANE	Albert PITT
George DAY	Frank SMITH	Albert BROWN	Cyril COMELEY
Thomas DURRETT	Lancelot WILLIAMS?	Harry YEARSLEY	Miles STERRY
John HARVEY	Henry GRIFFITHS	Jesse MERRETT	Harry GILL
William LANE	John WALTERS	Alfred BULLOCK	James RICHARDS
Harry MANN	James WILKES	Herbert BOWEN	Jesse SMITH
Charles MARSH	Victor WILLIAMS	W. Arnold PALMER	Percy BAYLISS
Charles MOUSDALE	Olgar HALL	Reuben SMITH	Arthur HODGES
George YEARSLEY	Thomas KEELING	Henry SMITH	Leonard CHELFORD
Arthur WHITE	Albert ARTUS	Frederick MARTIN	Thomas HALL
Edwin TANNER	Bernard GODWIN	George GRIFFITHS	Albert BLEWITT
Arthur JAGO	Jack HOOPER	Henry SIMMONDS	Alfred WHITE
Hy Jack JAGO	Ernest HOPTON	Percy ESTCOURT	Albert PREEN
Charles STEELE	Neil MACKAY	Reginald JONES	Harold HULL
Herbert DAY	Laurence MACKAY	Walter DEE	Stanley HARRIS
William HIGGINS	Ellis NOTT	Thomas LEWIS	Wilfred HOADLEY
William RAWSON	William RALPH	George GRIFFETT	Charles NEALE
Thomas LANE	Hubert WINFIELD	Sidney BLUNT	Ernest HALFORD
Albert DONE	Victor WEAVER	Frederick TIMBRELL	Howard BELLAMY
	Edward Wm. WILLIS

Denomination

Now or formerly Church of England.

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 SO8346519078. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• St Mark's Church (now 'Destiny Temple'), Gloucester shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Gloucester 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 Gloucester, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• The Church Commissioners Report on Pastoral and Closed Churches, found on the Church of England (null) (verified 2018-10-04)
• Stuart Flight's webpages of City of Gloucester Places of Worship (null) (verified 2018-11-08)

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.