Baptist Chapel, Green End, Whitchurch
- HER Number (PRN): 05958
- Site Name : Baptist Chapel, Green End, Whitchurch
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- Grid Reference: SJ 5426 4155
- Brief Description: A Baptist Chapel was built here about 1820 on the site of a building used as a chapel from 1813 or 1814. It closed in 1939. During World War II it was used as a canteen. After the War it became the Institute, and was later a nighclub called "The Caddyshacks". A burial ground to the rear, depicted on the OS 1:500 Map of 1880, was reportedly still traceable in c 2000.
- Description: Baptists met in a private house at the beginning of the C19 but soon after 1807 they moved to a meeting house in Jarretts Yard <1>
Duggan considered this to be a house in Green End which was still in use in 1935. Between the years 1862 and 1889, considerable improvements were made. New windows were put in, gas was instalIed, the premises enlarged by extending towards the street and forming a lobbby as the entrance with a schoolroom above. <2>
A Baptists Chapel is marked to the west end of Green End on the 1880 OS map <3>
CMHTS Comment:- This later became the Whitchurch Institute <4>
In Whitchurch a [Baptist] place of worship was opened in 1798. In 1813 a larger and better placed chapel than those used previously was acquired by adapting a former malt-kiln in Green End. The Church closed in 1939 and its chapel in Green End was later turned into the Institute and then "The Caddyshacks". <6>
The present chapel was built around 1820 on the site of the house they had moved to in Green End on the 1st of May 1814. <7>
In June 1940 the Whitchurch Inner Wheel and Rotary Clubs opened the "Do-nut" Dug Out canteen in the old Baptist Chapel in Green End for service personnel in the area. The canteen closed in March 1946. <8>
After it ceased being a chapel it became a men's club, and then a nightclub in the 70's. According to local inhabitants the burial ground was still behind the building approximately ten years ago [from 2012]. <9>
On the OS 1:500 scale map of 1880 [sent as an attachment to Source <9>] a "Burial Ground" is depicted filling the rear part of the plot on which the Baptist Chapel "(Particular) (Seats for 300)" stands. The map depiction also shows the front of the building set back from the street, so the extension to the street with a lobby and schoolroom must postdate c1880. <10>
Photograph taken on 16/06/2016. <11> - Record Type: Monument
- Sources:
(01) Monograph: Reath W M. Whitchurch Past and Present. p25. (02) Monograph: Duggan T C. 1935. History of Whitchurch. p56-57. (03) Map: Ordnance Survey. 1880. OS County Series 07.04, 1880. OS County Series. 07.04. 1:2500. (04) Record form: Buteux Victoria. 1993/ 1996. CMHTS SMR Records Shropshire: Whitchurch. Central Marches Historic Towns Survey record form. Vol 12. Whitchurch 5958. (05) Historic landscape survey report: Buteux Victoria et al. 1996. Archaeological Assessment of Whitchurch, Shropshire (CMHTS). Hereford & Worcester CAS Rep. Rep 354. (06) Monograph: Betteridge Alan. 2010. Deep Roots, Living Branches - A History of Baptists in the Western Midlands. pp98, 195, 410. (07) Webpage: Anon. 2007. Whitchurch Town Trail: Green End. http://www.shropshirehistory.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/theme:20070302093848. 02/01/2013. Other Noteworthy Buildings : Baptist Chapel. (08) Webpage: Taylor Ken et al. 2008. The History of Whitchurch Rotary Club - Wartime. http://www.surftech.co.uk/rotary/PP/html/wartime.html. 02/01/2013. (09) Correspondence: Hoyle Judith. 2012. Lost Burial Ground - Email to HET, 19/12/2012. Penny Ward. (10) SMR comment: Ward Penny A. Comments by HER compiler in HER database. 02/01/2013. (11) SMR comment: Haynes J B. 2014 onwards. Comments by J B Haynes, HER Compiler. - Tags:
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- Date Last Edited: 11/09/2018 09:34:20
