The Diocese of Clifton was founded on 29 September 1850. It covers the counties of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Somerset, and includes the major centres of Bath, Bristol, and Swindon. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Birmingham in the Province of Birmingham. The cathedral is in Clifton, Bristol, and is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul. 121 churches were visited for Taking Stock (2016).
A striking and unusual modern-traditional design, combining Scandinavian and neo-Georgian elements, built to serve a... Read More
A small stone-built chapel, originally built for the Strict Baptists in 1872 and acquired for Catholic use in 1941.... Read More
A modest church occupying a 1930s former telephone exchange. The conversion was undertaken in 1977 and a narthex added... Read More
A modern design of 1962-4, incorporating later slab glass made at Prinknash Abbey. The church has been extended. It... Read More
A modest Gothic church of the 1890s designed by Canon A. J. C. Scoles and largely paid for by the Arundell family of... Read More
An early church by A. J. C. Scoles, and unusually for him in Decorated Gothic style. Originally built in part to serve... Read More
A modern, functional steel-framed church with a pleasant, welcoming interior. A reredos panel by the Hardman firm... Read More
An important, substantial and little-altered eighteenth-century private chapel. It was built discreetly within one of... Read More
A simple red-brick and stone-banded church built in two phases between the wars, with a later narthex, all held... Read More
A row of Tudor Revival almshouses of 1833, converted into a church and presbytery in the 1930s. Further extended to... Read More
A small church built from designs by Charles Hansom for a Carmelite convent. The slightly later nuns’ choir area was... Read More
A small late-1930s church in a simplified Romanesque style. The building has been modernised internally and adapted to... Read More
