Market Street Methodist Church, Clay Cross, Derbyshire, Church History

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Market Street Methodist Church, Clay Cross

Market Street Methodist Church,
85 Market Street, S45 9LS,
Clay Cross, 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 1887, but we understand it was closed in 1964.

This rather spectacular building - and local landmark - was designed by Ellison & Son of Liverpool. Most sources, including the building itself, which has a band of stonework with the inscription "Free Methodist Chapel 1887", say it was Free Methodist. Apparently, however, it switched to a Wesleyan Methodist congregation, as Old Maps of 1917 and 1921 label it as "Wes. Meth", so presumably this is the "Market Street Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan Methodist)" in Derbyshire Record Office's Non-Conformist Register Guide for which records of baptisms 1924-1964, and marriages 1936-1964 exist. Possibly it became Wesleyan Methodist when its congregation were joined by that of the original Wesleyan Chapel, in Holmgate Road, which closed in 1900, but this is pure supposition on my part.
Ellison & Son's building was itself closed as a Methodist Church in 1964, but there is a photograph of Clay Cross - Free Methodist Chapel on the Geograph website showing it is still consecrated for religious worship - the North East Derbyshire Christian Fellowship now meet here.

Denomination

Now or formerly Free Methodist/Wesleyan 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 SK3949163460. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Market Street Methodist Church, Clay Cross shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Clay Cross 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 Clay Cross, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

You may like to see photograph(s) of Clay Cross - Free Methodist Chapel on the Geograph website.

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 3 Oct 2013 at 14:40.

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This Report was created 21 Dec 2024 - 13:28:34 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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