Note on the Church at Much Park Street

The Assemblies of God movement was introduced into Coventry by a Mr. Miles who, in August 1933, pitched a tent in Albany Road for a three months 'revival' campaign. Meetings were later held in the Tabernacle, a rented hall in Cambridge Street. The sect had little following until a series of successful meetings at the Baths Hall and the Corn Exchange in 1935 increased membership from twelve to 300. The first regular meeting-hall, a brick building in Much Park Street, was opened in 1937 and is known as the Full Gospel Assembly.

From: British History Online
Source: The City of Coventry: Protestant nonconformity: Places of worship. A History of the County of Warwick: Volume VIII, W.B. Stephens (Editor) (1969).
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=16042#n4
Date: 15/07/2004
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