Gloucestershire Places of Worship

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St Leonard's Church, Redfield, Bristol
St Leonard's Church   [no longer consecrated]
Blackswarth Road,
Redfield, Bristol, 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 1938, but we understand it was closed by 2012, and the premises are now in secular use.

St Leonard's was built in 1938 to replace an earlier Church built in 1907, on an adjacent plot to the north. Initially it was dedicated to St Peter & St Paul, but in 1925 it was changed to St Leonard to reflect the support it obtained from the parish of St Nicholas in the City - joined to the parish of St Leonard in the City when it was demolished in 1771. Please see Phil Draper's ChurchCrawler website for more details of this fascinating history.

Information on A Church Near You website indicates that as a consequence of a broken heating system, the congregation of St Leonard's had "decamped" to St Ambrose, Stretford Road, Whitehall", pending a review of the situation after Easter 2012; however a Google StreetView "drive-past" in June 2012 showed a "for sale" board outside, and the website of the East Bristol Partnership of Anglican Churches (EBPBRISTOL) lists a single Church of "St Ambrose with St Leonard", so evidently St Leonard's was closed, and its parish united with that of St Ambrose.

As of November 2018, EBPBRISTOL comprises 7 parishes, covering the areas of Fishponds, Hillfields, St George, Two Mile Hill, Whitehall and Redfield in Bristol.

Denomination

Now or formerly Church of England.

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 ST6180273433. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

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 Redfield, Bristol, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

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 Nov 2018 at 14:14.

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This Report was created 14 Jun 2020 - 16:05:22 BST from information held in the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 14 Jun 2019 at 13:31.

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