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NORLEY MEMORIAL CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL

A congregation existed in 1928 at Plymstock, where they met in the Foresters' Hall at Pomphlett.  On July 9th 1929 Mr Ambrose Andrews laid the foundation stone of their own Chapel in Plymstock Road, near the junction with Randwick Park Road, from which it took its name.

Plymstock after the end of the Second World War was a rapidly expanding community and this put pressure on the space available at the Randwick Congregational Chapel.  In 1949 the War Damage Compensation received for the destruction of Norley Congregational Chapel enabled them to erect a new and larger chapel to be known as the Norley Memorial Congregational Chapel.  A threshold stone from the old building at Norley was incorporated into the new floor of the entrance. 

It was opened on March 26th 1955, by which time it would appear to have been renamed the Plymstock Congregational Chapel.

In 1972 the Congregationalists joined forces with the Presbyterian Church of England and became the United Reform Church.

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