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Avenue St Andrew's United Reformed Church

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Church was founded in 1853, on the corner of Brunswick Place and Dorset Street. By the 1970s, the congregation had dwindled since much of the surrounding housing had been demolished. In the early 1980s, a survey of the building showed that £150,000 was needed to keep it safe. The decision was made to
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The congregation having outgrown the original chapel, a new building was erected on the site in 1727. This was later demolished in 1819 and replaced by an even larger building, the first stone of which was laid on 1 April 1819, and the building was completed on 20 April 1820, having cost nearly
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bombing. As a result, many of the congregation began attending the nearby St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. The minister of Above Bar Congregational Church, Rev Maxwell Jones, also moved to St. Andrew's and was formally recognised as the minister of the latter.
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The Church was the main Non-Conformist church in the city in the nineteenth century, when it was known as Above Bar Independent Chapel (later on becoming Above Bar Congregational Chapel, the oldest church in the
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was opened on Wednesday, 7 December 1898. After the decision to combine the St. Andrew's and Avenue congregations, the church became known as Avenue St. Andrew's.
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The church was founded in 1662 under the ministry of the Rev. Nathaniel Robinson. The father of hymn-writer
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following the 1972 merger of the Presbyterian Church of England and many churches within the
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The brick spire and red brick tower are a prominent Southampton landmark
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Location of Above Bar Independent Chapel on 1846 map of Southampton
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merge with the nearby Avenue Church since both had become
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Avenue St. Andrew's United Reformed Church

United Reformed Church
Southampton
listed Grade II
National Heritage List for England
Isaac Watts
deacon
Congregational Union
second world war
Luftwaffe
Presbyterian
United Reformed Churches
Congregational Union
Congregational Church
Historic England
"Church of St Andrew (1380290)"
National Heritage List for England
Southampton City Council: Listed buildings in Southampton
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The History of Avenue St Andrew's URC
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