Church Micro #6993 Bristol Our Lady of Ostrobrama Mystery Cache
Church Micro #6993 Bristol Our Lady of Ostrobrama
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Our Lady of Ostrobrama - The history of Cheltenham Road's Polish Church
Cheltenham Road’s landmark Arley Chapel – well known for its Renaissance clock tower rising above a rose window and a curved Corinthian portico - celebrated its 150th birthday in 2005.
It was not built without some difficulty.
Local Congregationalists had met up in 1825 – in what was then a fairly sparsely-populated area of the city – to try to establish a permanent place of worship.
But no suitable land could be found until a member of the Tabernacle Church, and later a deacon at the Chapel, William Williams, started a business nearby and made some available.
Finance was always a problem, but the Quaker Richard Ash, who had also helped the Highbury Chapel congregation, gifted £500 (and later, another £750) and soon, with extra help from an anonymous “aged Christian” who donated £200, the Congregationalists had £2,000 – almost enough to start buildingwork.
The church, which in the end cost double that amount, opened in 1855 and thrived throughout Victorian times.
In 1968, after having been declared redundant by the Congregationalists (who had found their numbers so depleted that they had united with two other church congregations and moved to Cotham Grove Baptist Church) the chapel was rededicated to Our Lady of Ostrobrama – a church with its own priest serving the Polish Roman Catholics living in the city.
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