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Eden Grove Methodist Church,
Eden Grove, BS7 0PQ,
Horfield, Bristol, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Church does 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 1929, and we understand it is still open.

This is an eye-catching building - apparently in a mix of styles. It has a north-south aligned nave, built of stone, with shallow transepts, and a large south-facing window, with brown pantile roof. Added to this, and integral with the structure, is a wide "porch", with red pantile roof, giving it the appearance of being added at a later date. Overall, it is described by Phil Draper, on his ChurchCrawler website as "matchstick gothick... the interior of the church - bright with a old organ from the former Milk Street church which was demolished about the time Eden Grove opened". He adds that Brookland Chapel (Lower Ashley Road) was instrumental in establishing this church. The latter was established as Independent Methodist, but joined the United Methodist Church in 1914.

The following notice in The London Gazette of 26th June 1934 (p.4085) records its registration for marriages:

A Separate Building, duly certified for religious worship, named EDEN GROVE METHODIST CHURCH, situated at Eden Grove, Horfield, in the civil parish of Bristol, in Bristol registration district, in the county borough of Bristol, was, on the 18th June, 1934, registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to 6 & 7 Will. IV, c.85. Dated 22nd June 1934.

The Upper Horfield Community Centre is situated next to the Church. It is designed in a complementary style, but it appears to have been built at a later date.

For more recent information, you may also like to visit the website of the Bristol & South Gloucestershire Methodist Circuit, to which Eden Grove Methodist Church belongs.

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 is located at OS grid reference ST5999978097. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Eden Grove Methodist Church, Horfield, 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 Horfield, Bristol, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• The Church officiando's “Bible” - Phil Draper's ChurchCrawler (null) (verified 2018-10-16)
• There are over 40 churches in the Bristol & South Gloucestershire Methodist Circuit (null) (verified 2018-11-01)
• 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.