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Ticknall Baptist Chapel,
off Main Street,
Ticknall, Derbyshire.

Cemeteries

We don't know whether this Chapel had 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 1795, but we understand it was closed in 1990.

Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses, Derbyshire (1986) provides the information that a first Meeting House for the Baptists in Ticknall was built in 1795, and registered in 1803 - 'a new building standing in Bucknall's yard on the South side of the street'. The present chapel is a rebuilding of about 1817, and is built of red brick, with a hipped tiled roof. The west front has wide round-arched windows between two similar, smaller windows, with a doorway to the left.

Its closure was recorded in the following notice in The London Gazette of 15th June 1990 (p.10653):

The Registrar General, being satisfied that BAPTIST CHAPEL, Ticknall in the registration district of Swadlincote in the Non-Metropolitan County of Derbyshire is no longer used as a place of worship by the congregation on whose behalf it was on 2nd November 1908 registered for marriages in accordance with the Marriage Act 1949 (as amended) has cancelled the registration. Dated 1st June 1990.

Though it is now closed and apparently converted into a private house, the Chapel is Grade II Listed Building - see the British Listed Buildings website for details. The latter provides the additional information that inside there's a gallery supported on two iron columns, with a panelled front.

Denomination

Now or formerly General Baptist.

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 Chapel was located at OS grid reference SK3533723930. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Ticknall Baptist Chapel, Ticknall shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Ticknall 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 Ticknall, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• Learn more about Buildings of special or historical interest on the British Listed Buildings (null) (verified 2018-09-19)
• 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.