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Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire

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Baptist Church on Station Road and Chance Street. SO 8968 3297. © Graeme Harvey (2012). Link.

The former Friends' Meeting House (1805 to before 1850) stands behind other buildings on Barton Street. It's now the George Watson Memorial Hall. SO 8943 3268. © Janet Gimber (2012). Link (has some history).

Holy Trinity on Oldbury Road. Its grade II listing dates it to 1837. SO 8945 3289. © Graeme Harvey. Link.

The former Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses on Barton Street, now (2012) up for sale. SO 8950 3270. © Janet Gimber (2012). It appears not to have been sold - a 2021 Streetview still shows the J.W. signage. Its grade II listing dates it to 1820, as Congregational.

Former Mission Room on Barton Street. Shown as such on old maps, this link suggests it was a Mission Room from Holy Trinity, but in appearance it looks more like a Methodist Church. The Star of David is also typical symbolism for a Methodist building. Perhaps at different times it was both. Ruth Bourne has found an old article in the Gloucestershire Journal of 1 November 1873, describing the opening ceremony of a new Primitive Methodist Chapel "at the top of Barton-street". Assuming this is this building, which seems highly likely, then perhaps the mapmakers were in error in showing it as a Mission Room. SO 8956 3271. © Janet Gimber (2012). There is another building with a sign giving its address as "The Old Mission Hall", on Trinity Street. Currently in industrial use, it stands a short distance from Holy Trinity Church. Perhaps this, rather than the Barton Street building was the Mission Room. Can you confirm either way? © Janet Gimber (2012).

The cemetery to the south of the town has a double linked Mortuary Chapel. Not seen by Streetview, a photo is available here. The north-easterly of the two is Anglican (SO 8912 3201) and the other (Nonconformist) is at SO 8913 3200. Grade II listed.

Methodist Church on Church Street. It's dated here to 1878. SO 8923 3266. © Andrew Ross. Link.

Old Baptist Chapel (the half-timbered building at the left) on Old Baptist Chapel Court. SO 8903 3256. The associated burial ground has a date of 1655. © Andrew Ross. Interior view (taken through a window), showing the baptistery. © Janet Gimber (2012). Link. Grade II* listed.

Priors Park Community Chapel is on Queens Road, and was seen by Streetview in 2016. SO 8965 3169. Link.

St. Joseph (R.C.), © Graeme Harvey. Link.

Salvation Army, on Station Road. SO 8973 3301. © Graeme Harvey (2012). Link.

A former Salvation Army hall stood on Nelson Street. It was demolished to allow for road widening. The photograph is reproduced by kind permission of Nick Warner.

Sycamore Chapel on Sycamore Road, Northway, as seen by Streetview in 2010. Link.

Tewkesbury Abbey, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Another view. SO 8908 3244. Both © Steve Bulman. An old postcard view, from Dave Westrap's Collection, and another from Paul E. Barnett's Collection. Another view, © Chris Kippin. Another view and the interior, both from old photos dated to about 1893, in Christopher Skottowe's Collection. Three old postcards, from Christopher Skottowe's Collection, show the Abbey, the interior, and the ambulatory. LinkGrade I listed. For other listed features associated with the abbey, see here.

 

 

 

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