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Morgan Street, BRISTOL, BS2 9LQ

A cast plate set into the entrance to St Agnes Park bears some intriguing words.

A row of trees line the path to St Agnes church. Interestingly, the church was only built in 1886 - quite some time after the park itself.

A project to create the Seven Saints of St Paul's has recorded in paint the contribution to Bristol by local people. Michele Curtis has captured the image of Carmen Beckford (1928-2016). She was born in Jamaica but moved to Bristol to train as a nurse at 17. Beckford quickly became involved with the local community, being one of the founders of the St Paul's Festival; she was appointed Bristol’s first race relations officer at the city council, fought hard against the discrimination that was prevalent and became the first black recipient of an MBE in the South West.

The former church school is now a gym. It was built in 1882, architect C Hansom and subsequently extended. It is listed grade 2 (list entry 1217951).

The church has a rather complicated history: originally some staff and pupils of Clifton College decided to found a public school mission in the parish of St Barnabas in 1875. A new church was demanded and W. Wood Bethel designed this Grade II listed church in Decorated Gothic Revival style, which was consecrated on 2nd March, 1886. Other churches in the area started to falter and so the work was carried over to St Agnes, leading to the modern title (sometimes used) of St Agnes and St Simon with St Werburgh, and St Paul's with St Barnabas. The church is also the St Paul's Centre.

The church has a distinctive three-storey tower with one pinnacle taller than the others.

The statue is on the west wall of the church tower Image Agnes is identified by carrying a lamb (Latin: agnus).

A coloured, cast metal plate marks an entrance to St Agnes Park. It seems to bear a more Caribbean flavour than those at the other entrances.

The church was founded in 1886, with Bethel's designs including a string course on the tower with foliate designs and angels at the corners. A later addition was a clock mechanism, with faces bearing non-Roman numerals. The clock is dated 'E. R. 1902' - marking the early part of Edward VII's reign.