Walk in Bristol
with Richie
St Barnabas Church
5 Nearest Attraction
1. Northern Slopes Nature Reserve
(The Bommie)
(92 feet - 1 min walking)
(0,6 mile - 12 min walking)
(0,7 mile - 13 min walking)
4. Victoria Park Baptist Church
(0,7 mile - 16 min walking)
(0,9 mile - 20 min walking)
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Nearest Public Toilet
Redcatch Park
(Community Toilet Scheme)
Accessible
Broadwalk, Knowle, BS4 2RA
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Official website:
https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/11695/
St Barnabas Church is a Christian church which hosts services and other functions.
Richie's opinion :
" When I was there, they were renovating the church, which is close to the entrance to the Northern Slopes."
History
This church stands in what Bristolians refer to as Knowle West, an area which has not appeared on maps, although it has on bus destination boards!
The District of West Knowle was formed from St.Martin's, St.John's Bedminster and Bishopsworth parishes.
It was known as St.Patrick's, 1933-1934, but eventually dedicated to St.Barnabas in 1934; Order in Council 1935, consecrated 1938.
The architect was C.F.W.Denning and his building was huge.
The exterior is of red brick, the interior of concrete.
The style was a simplified classical style although others have called in Romanesque.
The nave had low passage aisles and there is a bellcote on the gable of the south transept.
The church proved too large for the needs of the parish and the nave was demolished in the 1980s and replaced by housing.
The crossing and transepts are now used as a church hall and the chancel is now the whole church, screened off in the early 1990s by a heavy curtain.