St Augustine the Less Church, Bristol

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name=St Augustine the Less Church
location_town=Bristol
location_country=England
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latitude=51.452150
longitude=-2.601875
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construction_start_date=13th century
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date_demolished=1962
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St Augustine the Less was a Church of England parish church in Bristol, England, first attested in 1240 [cite web | title=Houses of Augustinian canons - the Abbey of St Augustine, Bristol | url = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40273 | accessdate=2008-10-11] , rebuilt in 1480, damaged in 1940 by fire, and demolished in 1962. It took its name from its proximity to the church of the Abbey of St Augustine ("St Augustine the Great"), which is now Bristol Cathedral.

The parish was united with that of St George's Church, Brandon Hill after the Second World War [cite web | title=Church of St Augustine-the-Less| url=http://www.churchcrawler.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/bristol4/augless.htm | accessdate=2008-10-11] . The site remained vacant until the early 1980s, when an archaeological investigation was undertaken before an extension to the Royal Hotel was built over it; over 100 burial vaults were discovered below the former church's floor, together with coins of various periods; the finds were deposited in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery [cite web | title=The Church of St Augustine the Less, Bristol: an interim statement | url=http://www2.glos.ac.uk/bgas/tbgas/v104/bg104211.pdf | author=E. J. Boore | year=1986 | publisher=Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, volume 104, pages 211--214] .

References

ee also

* Churches in Bristol
* Grade II* listed buildings in Bristol