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Demolished.
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Granville Estate Methodist Church (Demolished),
Frederick Street,
Woodville, 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 before 1901, but we understand it was closed in 1989.

Derbyshire Record Office's Non-Conformist Register Guide includes records of baptisms at Granville Estate Methodist Church for the period 1940-1966, and of marriages 1904-1965.

I wonder if the starting date of one of those is a mistake, as it seems unusual to have a record of marriages taking place which predates baptisms. The year of its solemnization for marriages is correct, as the date was recorded in the The London Gazette of 16th August 1904 (p.5303) as 9th August 1904.

Old Maps between 1901 and 1975 show the location of the Chapel, a long, narrow rectangular building, close to the south west corner of the junction of Frederick Street with Bernard Street. The corner plot from 1923 was occupied by a Sunday School. Their joint site is now (2013) occupied by modern housing.

It is not known how old "Granville Estate" is, but there is an old house with a plaque which says "Albion Cottage / 1879" on the opposite side of the road to the Chapel site. Nearby were two Pottery Works, the nearest being "Bretby Art Pottery", so it the houses may have been built for their employees.

The closure of the Church probably took place in 1989, as a "METHODIST CHAPEL, Woodville" was one of the buildings listed in The London Gazette of 16th February 1989 (p.2020) that "have wholly ceased to be used as places of worship by the congregations on whose behalf they were certified"... Dated 26th January 1989. The other Methodist Chapel, in Chapel Street, was by 1975 recorded as a "Chapel of Rest", so no longer a Methodist Church.

Denomination

Now or formerly 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 SK3105319237. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Granville Estate Methodist Church (Demolished), Woodville shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Woodville 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 Woodville, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• 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.