St Edyth’s Church started in the early 1920s as a sister church of Henbury Church, and operated from a house in Sylvan Way (thought to be no. 22). It then moved to it’s current site in two 1914 army huts situated on what is now the church car park.
The church was dedicated in honor of Lady Edyth Lennard, the wife of the Lord of the Manor who gave the land for the building.
The church as we know it now was built in 1926-1928 to the designs of Sir George Oatley, who famously built the local University Tower Building at the top of Park Street, near the city centre of Bristol. Sir George Oatley also designed the Methodist Church on Sea Mills Square in 1930-1931.
Due to lack of funds, the west end of the church was only temporarily finished with plans for another Nave of the same size to be added. The old army huts continued as a church hall until the 1980’s, when a semi-prefabricated hall was built on the south side of the church, where Sea Mills Doctors Surgery now stands. This site was sold to the doctors and an integrated hall was added to the west end of the main church and opened on 2nd November 1996.