Chapel Street

Time was when each of the Three Towns had a Chapel Street. Today there are just two and of those two, only one, the one in Devonport has an active chapel in it.

The Stonehouse Chapel Street has been absorbed into the northern part of Durnford Street - before the Second World War it ran along the front of the late-eighteenth century St. George’s Church, destroyed in 1941 and built on the site of an earlier chapel.

The Devonport Chapel Street still runs in front of the slightly earlier but also late-eighteenth century St. Aubyn’s Chapel, while the Plymouth Chapel Street runs behind the Chapel of St. Luke. Situated behind the Plymouth Central Library it was last used as a chapel in the early 1960s and has been used as an annex of the library since 1966.

It was originally constructed as a chapel of ease for Charles Church between 1828 and 1830, when it was consecrated by the Bishop of Exeter.

EH 30 March 1996