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Mount Zion Sanctuary Assembly (Demolished),
Thirsk Place, Ascot Drive,
Osmaston, Derby, 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 by 1961, but we understand it was closed by 1975.

When I first "visited" this building via Google StreetView in December 2011, it was sheltered from the road by trees, and barely visible. However it was possible to see a grey building, possibly of metal, or painted wood, and with several windows, facing towards the road side. It first came to my attention on my OS Derbyshire Street Atlas (1995), marked with a '+' sign, indicating a place of worship; and it is also listed in Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) at the address as stated, with a congregation described as "Mount Zion Sanctuary". Old Maps of 1970-1972 label it more generally as "Pentecostal Church".

Its closure, as Allenton Pentecostal Church, Thirsk Place, Ascot Drive, Derby was recorded in The London Gazette of 22nd April 1975 (p.5188), in a list of buildings which had wholly ceased to be used as places of worship. The date of its original certification was given as 29th December 1961, but I was unable to trace an accompanying notice. Neither was I able to trace any re-registration, as "Mount Zion", so whilst it may have been used again after 1975, the only record of such is the alternate name in the Registrar General's list.

And finally, to bring the matter up to date, a more recent StreetView visit, dated Sept 2014, indicates the building has been demolished.

Thirsk Road itself, and the area to the north of it, appears to be largely (light) industrial. The area was developed on land south of the defunct Osmaston Barracks.

Denomination

Now or formerly Mount Zion Sanctuary.

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 SK3694233156. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Mount Zion Sanctuary Assembly (Demolished), Osmaston, Derby shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Derby 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 Osmaston, Derby, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) is available as a "Freedom of Information" document on the website What Do They Know. (verified 2018-10-14)
• 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.