Duncombe House (Former Retreat), Churcham, Gloucestershire, Church History

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Duncombe House (Former Retreat), Churcham

Duncombe House (Former Retreat),
Bulley Lane / A40, GL2 8BD,
Churcham, 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

We don't know when this Place of Worship was founded, though it is now closed, but we don't yet know when.

This former place of worship is strictly speaking unrelated to family history, but the poustinia experience it offered was so interesting that I felt it was important to record.
'Poustinia' is derived from the Russian word for desert, meaning a place of isolation to pray and to fast. It was originally a Russian Orthodox tradition, but was introduced to Roman Catholic spirituality by authoress Catherine Doherty by her book Poustinia: Christian Spirituality of the East for Western Man (1975).
Duncombe House has also been described as one of the very few "Quiet Gardens" in Gloucestershire, where individuals or groups were able to visit for prayer or meditation by private arrangement. Paradoxically, it must have been anything but quiet, sited as it is beside the main A40 Ross on Wye to Gloucester trunk road, and next door to Churcham Primary School!
The above information has been derived from an article in the Barnwood(!) news section, published by This is Gloucestershire on 16th August 2008; and the Wikipedia article on 'Poustinia', which describes the concept clearly and concisely.

Denomination

Now or formerly Non-denominational.

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 SO7607118666. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Duncombe House (Former Retreat), Churcham shown on a Google Map.
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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)
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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 Churcham, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

Previously published articles by This is Gloucestershire (null) (verified 2018-11-03)
A link to an article from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, on 'Poustinia' (null) (verified 2018-11-22)

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 3 Dec 2018 at 15:43.

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