Bertha the Queen

The origins of Bertha the Queen mission church in Cumberland Avenue lay in the destruction of St George's Church in 1942; with the loss of the church, the parish of St George's was merged with that of St Martin's and St Paul's. The sale of the land occupied by St George's to developers in 1952 provided the funding for the building of a mission church to serve the Spring Lane and Barton estates on the edge of the city.

Bertha the Queen was dedicated in a service on the 30th September 1961, but was used as a church for barely twenty years, the revocation of its license for banns and solemnization of marriages taking place in 1978. The church was purchased by the Canterbury Diocesan Association for the Deaf in 1981.

Records in Cathedral Archives

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