Minchinhampton Baptist Church, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, Church History

Gloucestershire Places of Worship

We have 4 Images

Minchinhampton Baptist Church, Minchinhampton (1) (69k)

Minchinhampton Baptist Church, Minchinhampton (2) (87k)

Minchinhampton Baptist Church, Minchinhampton (3) (89k)

Above Photograph(s)
Copyright of John Williams/Alf Beard

Minchinhampton Baptist Church, Minchinhampton

Minchinhampton Baptist Church,
Tetbury Street, GL6 9JH,
Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

This Church has (or had) 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 1834, and we understand it is still open.

The first Baptist Chapel in Minchinhampton was built in 1765, for a congregation promoted by Benjamin Francis, minister of Shortwood Baptist Chapel. It was served regularly from Shortwood until the end of the 18th century, when its congregation dwindled. However, the cause was soon revived, and an independent church was formed in 1824, for which a new building was erected, on land given by David Ricardo, MP. [Source: A History of the County of Gloucester, Volume 11: Bisley and Longtree Hundreds (1976), pp.204-205 (Minchinhampton - Protestant Nonconformity)]
The return to the Religious Census of 1851 (HO 129/338/6/1/6) for "Hampton Chapel" describes a separate building, used exclusively as a place of worship, erected in 1834. There was free seating for 50, and 70 "other" sittings, and the estimated congregation on March 30th was 80 in the morning, 104 in the afternoon, and 85 in the evening, with 32 Sunday Scholars attending a morning class. The return was completed by Isaac Jones, a Deacon of the Chapel, whose address was "Minchin Hampton, Gloucester Shire".
The original chapel still exists, now a private house but very much altered. It stands in Chapel Lane, near the north end of Workhouse Lane.

Denomination

Now or formerly Baptist.

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 SO8728700590. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Minchinhampton Baptist Church, Minchinhampton shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Minchinhampton 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 Minchinhampton, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

The Victoria County History series: A History of the County of Gloucester, Volume 11: Bisley and Longtree Hundreds (null) (verified 2018-11-06)

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 30 Dec 2014 at 07:40.

Search for other Places of Worship in Gloucestershire, or in another County in this Database

Please choose a County by selecting one of the Tabs below.
Note: you MUST choose a County - searching all four at once is not an option!

Derbyshire

Gloucestershire

Herefordshire

Worcestershire

Photo	Place or OS GridRef	Dedication (optional)	Street (optional)	How Many	Denomination

Search Tips:

You can specify either a Place, or OS Grid Reference to search for. When you specify a Place, only entries for that place will be returned, with Places of Worship listed in alphabetical order. If you specify a Grid Reference, Places of Worship in the immediate vicinity will be listed, in order of distance from the Grid Reference supplied. The default is to list 10, but you can specify How Many you want to see, up to a maximum of 100.

You can further refine your search by supplying other search terms.

You can specify entries with ('Yes') or without ('No') photographs.

You can specify a church or chapel's Dedication, to restrict entries to those containing the term you supply as a dedication. So for instance, 'John' would return 'St John', 'St Mary and St John', 'St John the Divine' &c.

You can specify a Street address, and likewise 'George' will return George Place, St George's Street, George and Dragon, &c.

You can restrict the search to classes of Denomination. The exact denomination is always shown in the results, although the search is for broad types. Thus you can search for 'Methodist', but not 'Wesleyan Methodist' or 'Primitive Methodist'. 'Multi-denominational' includes Ecumenical Partnerships, and 'Miscellaneous' means anything not covered by other broad classes.

Please note the above provides a search of selected fields in the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship Database on this site (churchdb.gukutils.org.uk) only. For other counties, or for a full search of the Database, you might like to try the site's Google Custom Search, which includes full webpage content.

Further Information

This site provides historical information about churches, other places of worship and cemeteries. It has no affiliation with the churches or congregations themselves, nor is it intended to provide a means to find places of worship in the present day.

Please also remember that whilst the above account may suggest that Minchinhampton Baptist Church remains open and accessible, this may not remain so.

Do not copy any part of this page or website other than for personal use or as given in our Terms and Conditions of Use.

You may wish to take a look at our About the Places of Worship Database page for an overview of the information provided, and any limitations which may be present.

This Report was created 27 Dec 2024 - 03:10:00 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.

URL of this page: https://churchdb.gukutils.org.uk/GLS359.php

Logo by courtesy of the Open Clip Art Library