Southsea

Ordnance Survey reference SJ 302518.

"Built as a chapel of ease to serve the needs of the growing population of this mining district; a conventional district has been assigned to it under the charge of the chaplain of Berse. The Church has not been consecrated, but it was licensed and opened for divine service on St. Andrew's Day, 1884. The churchyard was consecrated as a non-parochial burial ground on 2 September 1907."
[ The History of the Diocese of St. Asaph , 1908-1913, Ven. D.R. Thomas]

In 1926, it was decided to demolish the original building, and replace it with a larger building on the same site.
It is said that this was done by building the new church around the old one - which was then demolished!
Less than sixty years later, this second church had become unsafe because of land subsidence. The church hall, a short distance away, was therefore converted for use as a church, some of the windows and fittings from the second church being incorporated into the conversion.
On 15 April 1984, the Bishop of St. Asaph deconsecrated the second church, and consecrated the converted church hall; continuing with the dedication to All Saints.
The second church was demolished soon afterwards.

The Clwyd FHS website has a photograph of the modern church.

A district church (or chapel of ease) to Southsea was opened at Tanyfron in 1897.

Nonconformist Churches

Nonconformist places of worship for Southsea were included in the "Welsh Church Commission - County of Denbigh - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905" under the Civil parish of Bersham. Details will be found on the parish page for Bersham.

Parish Registers

• The following Parish Registers have been deposited at the Denbighshire Record Office, Ruthin.
  They may be viewed on microfilm at the Denbighshire and Flintshire Record Offices, at the A.N. Palmer Library, Wrexham, and at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  These microfilms are not available elsewhere.

Bishop's Transcripts

• There are no Bishop's Transcripts for All Saints, Southsea.

I.G.I.

• There are no official I.G.I. entries for All Saints, Southsea.

Having been formed from townships of the ancient parish of Wrexham, the parish of Southsea was assigned to the Wrexham Registration District.

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Southsea are in the format :

• Years 1837 - 1851: Wrexham XXVII. nnn
• Years 1851 - 1930: Wrexham 11b. nnn

(GRO index references have no relevance at the local Superintendent Registrar's Office)

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North-East Wales Churches and Ancient Parish Boundaries" produced by Clwyd Record Office in 1994, published by Genuki with the permission of Flintshire Record Office and Denbighshire Archives

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ302517 (Lat/Lon: 53.057973, -3.04291), Southsea which are provided by:

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