Derbyshire Places of Worship

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Alton Methodist Chapel, Alton, Ashover
Alton Methodist Chapel,
Alton Hill (north side),
Alton, Ashover, Derbyshire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Chapel 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 1856, but we understand it was closed after 1979.

This building would have been one of two Mission Rooms mentioned in Kelly's Directory of 1895 at Alton, this one being "Nonconformist", the other "Church". Both would have had services on Sunday afternoons and evenings.

White's Directory of 1857 records it as Primitive Methodist, and built in 1856. Its position is shown on Old Maps, for instance OS 1879-1880 1:2,500 likewise as "Methodist Chapel (Primitive)". By OS 1917 1:2,500 it had been "demoted" to a Mission Hall, and the Church Mission Hall was also showing.

Both were built of stone, and are still standing, though appear to have had a limited life as places of worship. The Methodist Chapel is still shown with a '+' on my OS Map of 1979, but the Church Mission Hall is not. A Primitive Methodist Chapel at Littlemoor (Ashover) appears to have had a longer life, as it is listed in Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010), whereas the Chapel at Alton is not.

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 Chapel was located at OS grid reference SK3613164324. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

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 Alton, Ashover, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

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.

Information last updated on 18 Dec 2011 at 07:28.

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This Report was created 2 Nov 2024 - 21:28:05 GMT from information held in the Derbyshire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 13 Oct 2021 at 14:33.

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