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Newnham & Blakeney Tabernacle,
Dean Road (west side),
Newnham on Severn, 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 1826, but we understand it was closed in 1864.

According to Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses, Gloucestershire (1986), this chapel was built in 1826, but went out of use in 1864 when it was replaced by a new chapel in the High Street. It has a rendered front of three bays with two tiers of round-arched windows. Apparently at the time it was recorded by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England what is presently "Dean Road" was then "Littledean Road".

After it was closed it was used for various secular purposes, then from the late 1940s, until around 1962, it served as a chapel for Plymouth Brethren. It later became a parish hall, and after the chapel in the High Street was sold in 1968, it was used once again for Congregational services.

It is not known how long it remained open after that as a place of worship, but evidently it was closed some time between then and now, as today, it is the Village Hall, and a Grade II Listed Building - see the British Listed Buildings website for details. The "new" chapel in the High Street, built in 1864, is now known as "The Old Chapel", and is not Listed. [Other Source: the Victoria County History series: A History of the County of Gloucester, Volume 10: Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds (1972), pp.49 (Newnham - Nonconformity)]

Denomination

Now or formerly Congregational.

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 SO6901211724. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Newnham & Blakeney Tabernacle, Newnham on Severn shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Newnham on Severn 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 Newnham on Severn, 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)
• The Victoria County History series: A History of the County of Gloucester, Volume 10: Westbury and Whitstone 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.