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Moravian Chapel,
Brockweir,
Hewelsfield, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

This Chapel 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 1832, and we understand it is still open.

The Moravian Chapel is a long narrow building with the entrance to the south, and a bell-cote at the north end, situated on the west bank of the River Wye. The interior was "much modified in 1902 with good Art Nouveau joinery". Sounds attractive!

Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses, Gloucestershire (1986) says the chapel was built 1832-3 for a new society formed under Rev. Lewis West, at the cost of the Moravian congregation in Bristol (Upper Maudlin Street, 1757). There are four lancet windows in each side wall, and there is/was a Sunday-school to the east.

One of the memorials in the burial ground is to "Zinzendorf Lewis West", 1839.

Today, it is a Grade II Listed Building - see the British Listed Buildings website for more details; and according to the list of Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010), its current congregation are the United Brethren. The Registrar General's List also includes the Sunday-school.

Denomination

Now or formerly Moravian.

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 Chapel is located at OS grid reference SO5393901067. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Moravian Chapel, Hewelsfield shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Hewelsfield 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 Hewelsfield, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• Learn more about Buildings of special or historical interest on the British Listed Buildings (null) (verified 2018-09-19)
• Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) is available as a "Freedom of Information" document on the website What Do They Know. (verified 2018-10-14)

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.