St Peter and St Paul, Bristol

About

St Peter and St Paul is a Greek Orthodox church located on Lower Ashley Road in the Easton area of Bristol, England. Designed in the Gothic Revival style by S. J.

Hicks and S. B. Gabriel, the building was completed in 1847 as the Anglican Church of St Simon the Apostle.

It was established to serve the rapidly growing and impoverished population of Baptist Mills. Following the merger of the Anglican parish with St Agnes in 1959, the vacant building was acquired by the local Greek and Greek-Cypriot community, which had expanded significantly after World War II. Consecrated in 1963, it became the first permanent Greek Orthodox church in the West Country.

It is the principal Greek Orthodox congregation in southwest England under the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain.