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CHURCHES, CHAPELS AND PLACES OF WORSHIP  |  METHODIST CHAPELS

GLOUCESTER STREET METHODIST CHAPEL

Updated:  30 July 2011 

The Gloucester Street Wesleyan Chapel was located on the north side of Gloucester Street, Devonport, at   the corner with Charlotte Street.   It was also known as the New Passage and Morice Town Chapel.  [1]

 

In 1811, a few years after a Sunday School was established in Tamar Street at Morice Town, a Chapel was erected in Gloucester Street at a cost of £4,500.  It was first registered as a religious meeting place on May 9th 1812.  [2]

The Chapel was enlarged in 1838. [3]

In 1878 a new Chapel was erected but by 1913 even this one was inadequate to the requirements of the district.  [4]

From 1887 the Gloucester Street Chapel was leased by the Salvation Army from the St Aubyn estate.  [5]

The Gloucester Street Chapel became the head of a new Devonport (Gloucester Street) Circuit in 1893 and supported the Chapels at Morice Street, Ford, and Saint Budeaux, along with Torpoint, Antony and Wilcove in Cornwall.  In time Keyham and Camel's Head Chapels joined the Circuit.  [4]

Gloucester Street Methodist Chapel, Devonport.

 

During the Second World War the Gloucester Street Methodist Chapel was badly damaged and could not be re-used so the war damage compensation payment was used to fund the new Saint Budeaux Methodist Chapel, which was opened in 1957.  [6]


Sources (incomplete):

[1] Source not recorded:.

[2]  Source not recorded.

[3]  Source not recorded.

[4]  "Wesleyan Methodist Church: Conference Handbook and Souvenir: Plymouth 1913", printed by Messrs William Brendon & Son Ltd, Plymouth, 1913, courtesy of the Reverend John Haley of Ridgeway Methodist Church, Plympton, and and Mr Chris Crouch, the Property & Facilities Officer at the Circuit Office, Devonport.

[5]  Source not recorded.

[6]  "St Budeaux Methodist Church Opened: Civic heads attend the dedication", Western Morning News, Plymouth, October 10th 1957.

Photograph - "Wesleyan Methodist Church: Conference Handbook and Souvenir: Plymouth 1913", printed by Messrs William Brendon & Son Ltd, Plymouth, 1913, courtesy of the Reverend John Haley of Ridgeway Methodist Church, Plympton, and and Mr Chris Crouch, the Property & Facilities Officer at the Circuit Office, Devonport.

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