Broadmead Baptist Church

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| country = United Kingdom

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| location = Bristol

| website = [https://broadmeadbaptist.org.uk/ broadmeadbaptist.org.uk]

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|completed date=1969

|architect=Ronald Hubert Sims

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Broadmead Baptist Church is a Baptist church in the Broadmead area of Bristol, England.

The church was the first dissenting church in Bristol, founded by Dorothy Hazard and four other dissenters in 1640.{{cite web|title=A brief history of the church|publisher=Broadmead Baptist Church|url=http://www.broadmeadbaptist.org.uk/history.php|access-date=12 July 2019}} In its early years the church was persecuted and met in various locations around Bristol, but in 1671 the members of the church secured four rooms at the end of Broadmead, which were quickly converted into one large room for use as a chapel.{{cite book|author=J. G. Fuller|title=The Rise and Progress of Dissent in Bristol; Chiefly in Relation to the Broadmead Church, Etc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZAJeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA21|year=1840|publisher=Hamilton, Adams and Company|page=49}} Records of the Bristol Quakers suggest that these 4 rooms may have been their meeting house between 1656 and 1670 when they moved to a new meeting house at Blackfriars. If so George Fox and Margaret Fell, key founders of Quakerism, were likely married in one of the four rooms in 1669.{{cite book |last=Butler |first=David |title=The Quaker Meeting Houses of Britain |year=1999|publisher=Friends Historical Society|location=Friends House London |isbn=0-900469-44-7 |page=516}} The chapel continued in use until the 1960s. When the Broadmead area was redeveloped the church sold the ground lease for shops and built a new church above. The new church was designed by the architect Ronald Hubert Sims and opened in 1969.{{cite web|url=http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/cities/bristol/bristol-churches/broadmead-baptist-chapel.html|title=Broadmead Baptist Chapel|publisher=Looking at Buildings|access-date=12 July 2019}} It features many brutalist elements,{{Cite web|url=https://thespoonsterspouts.com/observations/broadmead-baptist-church-brutalist-architecture/|title=Broadmead Baptist Church, Bristol - Inside A Brutalist Gem|date=2020-04-19|website=The Spoonster Spouts|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-25}} with the widespread use of raw concrete alongside timber panelling. When first opened, it featured a laminated timber spire that was removed due to being unsafe.

The church was grade II listed in 2024 by Historic England.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/dec/18/tintin-and-the-terrific-tomb-essex-heritage-listing-is-thrill-for-herge-fans |title=Tintin and the terrific tomb: Essex heritage listing is thrill for Hergé fans |last=Brown |first=Mark |newspaper=The Guardian |date=18 December 2024 |access-date=19 December 2024}}{{NHLE |num=1489824 |desc=Broadmead Baptist Church |grade=II}}