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Leabrooks Primitive Methodist Chapel,
Main Road (Leabrooks Road),
Leabrooks, Somercotes, 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 1905, but we understand it was closed before 1937.

A Primitive Methodist Chapel at Leabrooks is mentioned in Kelly's Directory of 1932 under the entry for Somercotes. A comparison of its position on Old Maps shows that it occupied the site where Peniel Church is now.

The following notice in The London Gazette of 24th September 1907 (p.6447) indicates its registration for marriages:

A Separate Building, duly certified for religious worship, named PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH, situated at Lea Brooks, in the civil parish of Alfreton, in the county of Derby, in Belper registration district, was, on the 21st September, 1907, registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to 6th and 7th Wm. IV, c.85. Dated 23rd September 1907.

A similar notice, for "the Building formerly known as METHODIST CHAPEL situated at Lea Brooks in the civil parish of Alfreton" published in the Gazette of 16th April 1937 (p.2485) indicated the cancellation of its registration as a place of worship, but it probably closed before that, as its successor, the Peniel Church, is shown on Old Maps of that year.

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 SK4210453373. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Leabrooks Primitive Methodist Chapel, Leabrooks, Somercotes shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Somercotes 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 Leabrooks, Somercotes, 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.