St Mary le Port Church, Bristol

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St Mary le Port Church

St Mary le Port Church, Bristol (Bristol)
St Mary le Port Church, Bristol
Shown within Bristol
Building information
Town Bristol
Country England
Coordinates 51°27′17″N 2°35′32″W / 51.454789, -2.592076Coordinates: 51°27′17″N 2°35′32″W / 51.454789, -2.592076
Completion date 15th century
Date demolished (partially)24 November 1940
St Mary le Port church, an old photo from ChurchCrawler with permission
St Mary le Port church, an old photo from ChurchCrawler with permission

St Mary le Port is a ruined parish church in the centre of Bristol, England. It is said to have been founded in Saxon times, and rebuilt and enlarged between the 11th and 16th centuries.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries the church was a very popular centre of evangelical, Protestant, and Calvinist teaching within Anglicanism.

The church was bombed in the Second World War on 24 November 1940. All that remains is the 15th century tower, a grade II listed building,[1] which during the latter years of the 20th century was surrounded by the buildings of Norwich Union and the Bank of England. A new building development is now proposed.

It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.[2]

After the bombing in 1940 the congregation and their rector, William Dodgson-Sykes, moved to St John on the Wall Church, where the congregation remained, in gradually declining numbers, till this church building was closed for worship by the Church Commissioners in 1984 (after a protracted struggle by the congregation). The remaining congregation then moved to the Chapel of Foster's Almshouses, and joined the Church of England (Continuing) in 1995 [1]. The C of E (Continuing) no longer lists a congregation in Bristol - some of the congregation joined with the new Free Presbyterian Church (Ulster) congregation in Horfield, Bristol.

Contents

[edit] Clergy of St Mary-le-Port church

Include (very incomplete list):

[4]
- son of William Sykes (first President of the Sovereign Grace Union)
- Principal of the Bible Churchmen's Missionary and Theological College, later part of Trinity College, Bristol
(Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society, now Crosslinks [5])
- Head of the Irish Church Missions

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tower of Church of St Mary-le-Port. Images of England. Retrieved on 2007-03-22.
  2. ^ Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Bristol (PDF). Bristol City Council. Retrieved on 2007-05-07.

[edit] See also

[edit] External pages about the church building

Historic Building
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