Comprehensive List of Bristol City Parishes and Episcopal Chapels

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Bristol City was partly in Somerset and partly in Gloucestershire until the Goverment Act of 1888, which made Bristol a county borough (a city independent of any county control). There were a considerable number of parishes and chapels associated and attached to it--some of which did not reside physically-speaking within the city proper, but lay outside of the city, but still within its jurisdictional boundaries.In 1974, Bristol, Bath, and large portions of Gloucestershire and Somerset became the county of Avon. In 1996, Avon was disbanded and the area of Avon was divided into four administrative areas, one of which is the then created county of Bristol.

Here is a complete list of pre-1851 parishes and chapels found in Bristol City (as of 1848):


 * Bristol, Cathedral, Holy Trinity – 1669
 * Bristol, All Saints - 1560
 * Bristol, Christ-Church – 1538
 * Bristol, Emmanuel, St Philips - 1862
 * Bristol, Holy Trinity Hotwells - 1830
 * Bristol, Holy Trinity, St. Philip - 1832
 * Bristol, Redland Green Chapel - 1754
 * Bristol, St. Augustine - 1577
 * Bristol, St. Barnabas - 1844
 * Bristol, St. Bartholomew - 1861
 * Bristol, St. Clement - 1855
 * Bristol, St. Ewin - 1538
 * Bristol, St. Francis - 1883
 * Bristol, St. George Brandon Hill - 1756
 * Bristol, St. George's Great George-street - 1756
 * Bristol, St. Giles - closed in 1319
 * Bristol, St. James - 1559
 * Bristol, St. John the Baptist - 1558
 * Bristol, St. Jude the Apostle - 1846
 * Bristol, St. Lawrence – closed in 1580
 * Bristol, St. Leonard – 1674 (Bts)
 * Bristol, St. Luke - 1850
 * Bristol, St. Mark's, Mayor's chapel – 1649 (French Huguenot Episcopal Chapel) - FHL has baptisms from 1687
 * Bristol, St. Mary-le-Port - 1560
 * Bristol, St. Mary Redcliffe - 1559
 * Bristol, St. Mathias - 1847
 * Bristol, St. Michael Two Mile Hill - 1849
 * Bristol, St. Michael Archangel – 1610 (Bts; mostly after 1675)
 * Bristol, St. Nicholas - 1538
 * Bristol, St. Paul, Portland Square - 1794
 * Bristol, St. Peter – 1611 (Bts; badly burnt; Bts mostly after 1667)
 * Bristol St Philip &amp; St Jacob Within -
 * Bristol, St. Raphael - 1873 see also Bedminster
 * Bristol, St. Saviour - 1878
 * Bristol, St. Simon - 1847
 * Bristol, St. Stephen - 1559
 * Bristol, St. Thomas - 1552
 * Bristol, Temple or Holy Cross - 1559
 * Bristol, St. Werburgh - 1558

Parishes lying just outside of, or contiguous to Bristol City and yet parts of each one of them were officially recognized as being in Bristol City's civil boundary, included the following in pre-1851:


 * St. James Priory - that part of the City of Bristol but lying in—Gloucestershire - 1559 - see above
 * St. Philip and St. Jacob (out) that part of the City of Bristol but lying in—Gloucestershire - 1576
 * Clifton St Andrew - 1538 (Gloucestershire)
 * Westbury-upon-Trym [Somerset – 1559] (Bts)
 * Bedminster St John (Somerset) – 1598 (Bts) | - 1655 (PRs)
 * Horfield Holy Trinity - 1674

The following were additional district chapels, chapels of ease and Episcopal chapels lying within Bristol’s boundary, built by at least 1883:


 * Bedminster St Luke - 1861
 * Bedminster St. Paul - 1843
 * Bedminster St. Silas - 1866
 * Bishopston St Michael &amp; All Angels Windmill Hill - 1862
 * Barton Hill St Luke - 1850
 * Clifton All Saints - 1868
 * Clifton Christchurch - 1844
 * Clifton Emmanuel - 1869
 * Clifton, St John - 1841
 * Clifton - St. Paul - 1859
 * Kingsdown St Matthew - 1835
 * St Lawrence, Lawrence Hill - 1883
 * Moorfields St Matthew - 1873
 * Russell Town Christ Church - 1886
 * Shirehampton St Mary - 1844 - see also Westbury-upon-Trym
 * Stoke Bishop St Mary Magdalen - 1860 - see also Westbury-upon-Trym
 * Tyndal's Park St Mary the Virgin - 1874
 * Montpelier St Andrew - 1845
 * Bristol, Colston's Episcopal Chapel, or Chapel of the Three Kings of Cologne – 1504
 * Easton St Mark - 1848
 * Easton Upper, St Gabriel - 1870
 * Emmanuel, The Dings - 1862
 * Fishponds, St. Mark - 1836
 * Bristol, Foster’s Episcopal Chapel –
 * Bristol, Ward of the Castle Precincts (extra-parochial ward)

There are places of worship for Baptists, Methodists, Quakers and others.

[Note: Those parishes and chapelries in hyper-link (blue underlines) and with the starting  year  of chapel/parish registers denotes that copies of same are held in microform at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Visit FamilySearch.org's Family History Library Catalog online]