St Bart’s, Oldfield Park, Bath
This area of Oldfield Park was threatened with development under the Beeching Plan in 1969. At that time, we lived in a house about 100 yards from this church. The Beeching Plan would have driven a motorway link from the M4 towards the south where this church stands and on stilts at bedroom level along Second Avenue. Not surprisingly, this was not a very popular plan! Thankfully it never came to bear and the area survives much as it did 40 years ago, except that it is now ‘Student-Land’ rather than the secluded residential district that it once was. Ah well, such is progress.
The current church is actually a rebuild. The prior one was consecrated in 1938. This had been paid for by a bank loan which was paid off on 15th March 1942. Unfortunately this was six weeks before it was completely destroyed by a German bomb during the same night that GC2E4TT commemorates. More details can be found at the fabulous Bath Blitz website
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Placed with the kind permission of the vicar.
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