Comprehensive List of Bristol City Parishes and Episcopal Chapels

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Bristol City was in independent county, by itself, bordering partly in Somerset and partly in Gloucestershire (pre-1898).

Here is as complete a list of pre-1851 parishes and chapels (about 60) found in Bristol City (as of 1890) as can be determined. The year next to each parish is when parish registers began in that parish.


 * 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 – 1832 (also check here)
 * Bristol, St. George's Great George-street – 1756
 * Bristol, St. Giles – closed in 1319
 * Bristol, St. James – 1559 (also check here)
 * [Bristol, St. John the Baptist – 1558
 * Bristol, St. Jude the Apostle – 1846
 * Bristol, St. Lawrence – closed in 1580
 * Bristol, St. Leonard – 1674 (Bts) (also check here)
 * Bristol, St. Luke – 1850
 * Bristol, St. Mark's, Mayor's chapel – 1649 (French Huguenot Episcopal Chapel) - FS Library has baptisms from 1687
 * Bristol, St. Mary-le-Port – 1560
 * Bristol, St. Mary Redcliffe – 1559 (also check here)
 * Bristol, St. Matthias – 1847
 * Bristol, St. Michael Two Mile Hill – 1848 (also check here)
 * Bristol, St. Michael Archangel – 1610 (Bts; mostly after 1675) (also check here - PRs)
 * Bristol, St. Nicholas – 1538 (also check here)
 * Bristol, St. Paul, Portland Square – 1794 (also check here - Bts)
 * Bristol, St. Peter – 1611 (Bts; badly burnt; Bts mostly after 1667) (also check here (PRs)
 * Bristol St Philip & St Jacob Within – 1576
 * Bristol, St. Raphael – 1861 (also check here)
 * Bristol, St. Saviour – 1878 (also check here)
 * Bristol, St. Simon – 1845 (also check here)
 * Bristol, St. Stephen – 1559
 * Bristol, Bristol, St. Thomas – 1552
 * Bristol, Temple or Holy Cross – 1559 (also check here - Bts)
 * 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
 * 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 – 1559 (Somerset)
 * Bedminster St John – 1598 - Bts (Somerset) (also check here - 1754 PRs)
 * Horfield Holy Trinity – 1543 (Gloucestershire)

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 (Somerset)
 * Bedminster St. Paul – 1843 (Somerset) (also check here - 1852 PRs)
 * Bristol St. Silas – 1867 (Gloucestershire)
 * Bishopston St Michael & All Angels Windmill Hill – 1862 (Gloucestershire)
 * Barton Hill St Luke – 1850 (Gloucestershire)
 * Clifton All Saints – 1868 (Gloucestershire)
 * Clifton Christ Church – 1844 (Gloucestershire)
 * Clifton Emmanuel – 1869 (Gloucestershire)
 * Clifton, St John – 1841 (Gloucestershire)
 * Clifton – St. Paul – 1859 (Gloucestershire)
 * Kingsdown St Matthew – 1835
 * St Lawrence, Lawrence Hill – 1883 (Gloucestershire)
 * Moorfields St Matthew – 1873 (Gloucestershire)
 * Russell Town Christ Church – 1886
 * Shirehampton St Mary – 1727 (Gloucestershire)
 * Stoke Bishop St Mary Magdalen – 1860 – Bts (Gloucestershire) (also check here)
 * Tyndal's Park St Mary the Virgin – 1874 (Gloucestershire)
 * Montpelier St Andrew – 1845 (Gloucestershire)
 * Bristol, Colston's Episcopal Chapel, or Chapel of the Three Kings of Cologne – 1504
 * Easton St Mark – 1848 (Gloucestershire)
 * 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 are on microfilm at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Many of these are also digitized and available on the FamilySearch Catalog].