[Bell Historians] Cromwell's Churches

[Anne Willis]

Of the English examples, the old church at Taynton was destroyed in 1643.
The new one was built in 1647-48 by order of Parliament so strictly speaking
it's pre Commonwealth.  My source gives the date of Charles Church in
Plymouth as 1640-1658, so I assume that originally it was called something
else.  Does anybody know what?

 

Peter Rivet

 

According to www.plymouth-churches.org.uk

...in 1634 the mayor and others petitioned the king for permission to divide
the ancient parish and build a new church. Seven years later he got round to
agreeing. Perhaps out of tact, or else because of puritan scepticism about
saints, the church was not dedicated to a saint but named after the king: it
was called Charles Church.

           
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