The 1884 Primitive Methodist magazine records the laying of the foundation stones for a new Primitive Methodist chapel at Springbourne, a suburb of Bournemouth.
The 1885 Primitive Methodist magazine contains a note of the opening of the new chapel. Springbourne is described as a suburb of the fashionable health resort chiefly inhabited by the labouring classes.
Where was the church and what happened to it?
Reference
Primitive Methodist magazine 1884 page 636
Primitive Methodist magazine 1885 page 187
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A Primitive Methodist chapel on the “corner of Malmesbury Road, Springbourne” was registered for worship on 27 March 1885 (number on the Worship Register: 28542). Assuming this is the present-day Malmesbury Park Road, the only place of worship shown on this road on maps of that era is an unspecified “mission hall”; there is now a pair of semi-detached houses on the site (coordinates: 50.732926, -1.859173). The chapel’s registration was cancelled in 1925.
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