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Demolished.
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Lea Road Methodist Church (Demolished),
Lea Road / Quoit Green,
Dronfield, Derbyshire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Church did NOT have a graveyard.

Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.

Church History

This Place of Worship was founded in 1874, but we understand it was closed by 1959.

The position of this chapel may be seen on Old Maps of 1882 (and later) at the intersection of Lea Road with Quoit Green, labelled as "Methodist Chapel (Primitive)". By Maps of 1958, it had become known as "Lea Road Methodist Church".

According to Kelly's Directory of 1932, it was an iron structure built in 1874, with seating for 100.

Although an "iron church", it lasted into the late 1950s, when it was replaced by St Paul's Methodist Church, at the junction of Green Lane with Snape Hill Lane, which opened in 1959. Its closure, as "Methodist Iron Church, Lea Road, Dronfield", was recorded subsequently in The London Gazette of 27th October 1959 (p.6804) in a list of buildings which "have wholly ceased to be used as places of worship by the congregations on whose behalf they were certified"... Its original certification was dated 4th March 1878.

Its site has now (2014) reverted to a pleasant "green" area set with weeping willow trees - perhaps this was the original "Quoit Green"? There are photographs of the building (known as 'Tin-Tab') on the Picture The Past website, as it was, and also of its site, after it was demolished.

Denomination

Now or formerly Primitive Methodist.

If more than one congregation has worshipped here, or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this will record its original dedication.

Maps

This Church was located at OS grid reference SK3562478155. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Lea Road Methodist Church (Demolished), Dronfield shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Dronfield shown on a Google Map.
• Streetmap.co.uk (arrow on map shows the Place of Worship's location) (verified 2018-10-15)
• Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13)
• Bing Maps ('Bird's Eye' View) (verified 2018-10-15)
• Ordnance Survey "getamap" (NB some of the 'Change Map' options may require a subscription) (verified 2018-10-15)
• OpenStreetMap (Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA) (verified 2018-10-15)
• A Vision of Britain Through Time - useful for Boundary Changes (verified 2018-10-15)
• www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays) (verified 2018-10-15)

Resources

I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Dronfield, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• Historical Photos of Derby, Derbyshire and Nottingham ~ Picture The Past (null) (verified 2018-10-12)
• Notices of Civil Registration of Places of Worship for marriages are published in the London edition of The Gazette. Hint: search for registrations from 1998 by choosing 'Church' notices, and the option 'Registration for solemnising marriage'. (verified 2018-12-11)

The above links were selected and reviewed at the time I prepared the information, but please be aware their content may vary, or disappear entirely. These factors are outside my control.