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Title: Kent Street Chapel, Portsmouth [Go to resource]
Description: External view of church. Kent Street Baptist Chapel had its origins in a congregation at Forton who decided to meet in Portsea to avoid the inconvenience of crossing the Harbour. Their original building (1704), in what was then known as Meeting-House Alley, was built with material from the ruined Netley Abbey. The chapel needed continuous improvement and enlarging so a new building, seating nearly 800 people, was opened in 1847. This was badly damaged by fire in 1891 but was rebuilt, only to become another victim of the air raid of January 1941. Rogers, Peter & Francis, David. 1989. Portsmouth in Old Photographs, p20. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Subjects: Kent Street
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Kent Street ChapelTemporal: start=1931-01-01; Source: Sense of place SE Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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