Baptist Chapel (1902) (Demolished), Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, Church History

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Baptist Chapel (1902) (Demolished), Stonehouse

Baptist Chapel (1902) (Demolished),
High Street,
Stonehouse, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Chapel 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 before 1902, but we understand it was closed before 1922.

A Baptist Chapel at this location is shown on OS 1902 1:2,500, on the north west side of what is now the High Street's junction with Laburnum Walk. It was probably accessible by Orchard Place, a narrow passageway between High Street buildings. By OS 1922-1923, they appear to have moved premises, as a Baptist Chapel is indicated in Queen's Road, just a short distance away.
The former website of Stonehouse Baptist Church provided the information that Stonehouse's first Baptist Church was founded in the early 1900's but that prior to the church's opening, meetings were held in a 'Tin Tabernacle' on Woodcock Lane.
The OS Map of 1902 shows what was presumably the 'Tin Tabernacle' in Woodock Lane separately, labelled as a Mission Hall. The Victoria County History series: A History of the County of Gloucester, Volume 10: Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds (1972), pp.287-288 (Stonehouse - Nonconformity), refers to an undenominational Gospel Mission Hall in Woodcock Lane, which was served by visiting lay preachers in the early 1960s, but became linked with the Baptist Chapel at Kings Stanley in 1967, at which time a site for a new Baptist Church in Stonehouse had been acquired.
The VCH does not mention other forerunners to the present day Baptist Church, yet clearly they existed, as indicated by the Maps.

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 Chapel was located at OS grid reference SO8048205410. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Baptist Chapel (1902) (Demolished), Stonehouse shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Stonehouse 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 Stonehouse, 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 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.

Information last updated on 18 Sep 2018 at 08:36.

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This Report was created 21 Dec 2024 - 15:35:08 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.

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