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Frenchay Community, UK

Frenchay Mysteries No. 21

11/2/2013

3 Comments

 
Why is the lane at the bottom of Frenchay Hill called Chapel Lane when there is no chapel there?

At the end of Chapel Lane is a private house which was previously a Methodist chapel. Robert Johnson of Fromeshaw House was a Wesleyan circuit steward and by 1843 meetings were held in a room over his stables.

In the middle of the nineteenth century Methodists were split and the reformed Kingswood Circuit of the United Methodist Free Churches approached the Quakers for permission to use their meeting house. Instead Mr F.F.Tuckett donated a plot of land on which the chapel was built in 1887. It closed in the 1960s and was converted to a private house.

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Peter Maggs
2/4/2015 06:02:34 am

My great & grandparents use to live along Frome Villas in Chapel Lane, there was a small chapel near 6 Frome Villas on the large grass area, it is now a house, there was a big Plum tree in front of the church which sadly is gone also!

I remember the small chapel was closed in the 1970's!

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Judith Kinsman
7/8/2018 08:00:51 am

In response to Peter Maggs comment about 6 Frome Villas, I'd be interested to know if he recalls a Henry Charles Fox who I believe lived at number 8. He died in 1958. He was my grandfather.

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Mr Peter Maggs
3/9/2018 08:47:25 pm

I only went to my grandparents house (No6) every 2 weeks or so and that was in the 60's & 70's.
Great memories and I remember a lady called Mrs Clarke lived a few houses away.

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