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Date of photo: 2018	Picture source: Google Streetview
The Old Chapel was situated at 74 George Street. This pub is now used as a Co-op convenience store.
From a 1920s postcard:
This quaint old building situate at the corner of Duke and George Streets, Devonport, was originally built for the Unitarians in the year A.D. 1790. The Congregation of the Chapel decayed in consequence of its being understood that Commissioner Fanshaw intimated that all Dockyardsmen who attended the New Chapel would be discharged as disloyal subjects; the French Revolution was then in full operation, and the Unitarians were the most ardent admirers of that movement in Great Britain. Three of that sect were executed as ringleaders in a most disgraceful riot in Birmingham on the 14th July 1791. Ten years afterwards, in 1801 the Chapel was converted, the conversion being as wide apart from its original purpose as could be imagined. The Chapel became a Temple of Bacchus, dedicated to the sale of Wines and Spirits, thus the change from the Spiritual to the Spirituous. The old building still retains remnants of its ecclesiastical character, and a Chaplain is still attached, who performs certain duties with zeal and punctuality.
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Date of photo: 1920s	Picture source: Liz Hanney
Date of photo: 1920s	Picture source: Liz Hanney