Randwick Methodist Chapel, Randwick, Gloucestershire, Church History

Gloucestershire Places of Worship

Default Image Sorry, we do not have an Image of this Place of Worship

We do not have a
Photograph at present.
Image by courtesy of
openclipart.org

Randwick Methodist Chapel, Randwick

Randwick Methodist Chapel,
The Lane,
Randwick, Gloucestershire.

Cemeteries

This Chapel 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 1817, but we understand it was closed in 1988.

The Methodist Chapel is a Grade II Listed Building - see the British Listed Buildings website for details.
The community it served was founded in 1747, when a group of followers of George Whitefield, who had preached at Randwick Church on 2 Sundays in July 1739, were meeting at Roadway Farm. William Vines, a Randwick quarryman who had been influenced by Whitefield, became a local preacher, and his house was licensed for dissenting worship in 1758. By the early 19th century, a Wesleyan Methodist community in the village was being led by William Knee, who started a Sunday-school here in 1804.
The first permanent chapel was built in 1807, but the present structure is a rebuilding of 1824. It is rectangular and is built into the bankside at the north end. The south end has a pedimented gable with an inscribed oval tablet - 'Randwick Chapel / Built 1807 / Rebuilt 1824' and a timber-boarded bellcote with a single bell. The south facade also features two tall windows of three lights, with pointed arch heads and intersecting stone tracery, with a clock-face between them. There was a Sunday-school attached at the north end, and two doorways on the east side. This is a spectacular building, which now appears to be in secular ownership. Evidently it closed prior to 19th September 1988, as a notice appeared in The London Gazette of 23rd November 1988 (p.13155) indicating it was no longer used as a place of worship, having being first registered for solemnizing marriages on 18th December 1891.
A burial ground behind the chapel (to the north) is marked on Old Maps, for example 1923 OS 1:2,500. [Sources: Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses, Gloucestershire (1986), and the Victoria County History series: A History of the County of Gloucester, Volume 10: Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds (1972), pp.229 (Randwick - Nonconformity)]

Denomination

Now or formerly Wesleyan Methodist.

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 SO8308206660. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Randwick Methodist Chapel, Randwick shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Randwick 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 Randwick, 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)
Notices of Civil Registration of Places of Worship for marriages are published in the London edition of The Gazette. Hint: search for registrations from 1998 by choosing 'Church' notices, and the option 'Registration for solemnising marriage'. (verified 2018-12-11)

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 11:33.

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.

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 17 Nov 2024 - 20:20:22 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/GLS973.php

Logo by courtesy of the Open Clip Art Library