St. Augustine's Church was a
Church of England
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church located on Whitchurch Lane in
Whitchurch,
Bristol
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.
History
Construction
The church was built in 1972 to cater for the expansion of
Whitchurch Parish in the suburb of south
Bristol
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,
England
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,
UK.
Closure
St Augustine's Church had many structural problems from its initial construction. The bell tower was unsafe and removed in the eighties. Rainwater had penetrated the roof after lead was stolen. In 2004 the city council planners gave consent to demolish the church and build a new structure. The church was deemed unsafe in 2007 and closed.
Re-build
Parishioners hoped to raise up to £50,000 towards the £350,000 cost of the new church. Following concerns about the lack of progress, Canon Nicholas Hay was appointed as caretaker minister.
Construction work on a new church was completed in 2016.
In 2021 the reverend Sam Sheppard was appointed priest in charge of the new team of St Augustines Whitchurch and Christ Church Hengrove
Archives
Records for St Augustine's church, Whitchurch are held at
Bristol Archives
Bristol Archives (formerly Bristol Record Office) was established in 1924. It was the first borough record office in the United Kingdom, since at that time there was only one other local authority record office (Bedfordshire) in existence. It ...
(Ref. P.WchStA)
online catalogue consisting of one marriage register and two service registers.
See also
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List of churches in Bristol
The English city of Bristol has a number of churches.
Bristol has lost, rebuilt or demolished all of its strongly characteristic late medieval parish churches - the naves had no clerestories, any added aisles and chapels were separately gabled, ...
References
External links
Page on ChurchCrawler http://www.churchcrawler.co.uk/bristol5/augwhit.htm
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Church of England church buildings in Bristol
Christian organizations established in 1972