Wesleyan Methodist Church, Pleasley, Derbyshire, Church History

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Wesleyan Methodist Church, Pleasley

Wesleyan Methodist Church,
Chesterfield Road,
Pleasley, 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 1899, though it is now closed, but we don't yet know when.

This place of worship may have been built as a replacement for the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and Sunday School shown on Old Maps of 1875 on the Chesterfield Road, which had disappeared by 1899. It stood where the High Street, had it continued further in a north-easterly direction, would have met the Chesterfield Road.
The "new" Chapel, to the west of the centre of the village, was built on the north side of what was then the main road through the village, but has now been bypassed. It is a traditional red brick building, having a three-bay front, with central doorway, above which is a large three-light pointed-arched window. The sides are of five bays with two tiers of round-arched windows, and there is an ornate wrought iron entrance gate, all of which can be seen on a photograph of it as Chapel near Pit Lane on the Geograph website. In the heyday of the railways it was sandwiched between the two railway lines which ran through the parish - the London & North Eastern, and London, Midland & Scottish, which had a station. As a consequence, it was sometimes referred to as the Chapel by the Station.
It may have been the Wesleyan Chapel mentioned in The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5, as built in 1894, at Pleasley Hill. It was certainly in existence by 1899, as shown on Old Maps of that year. Its closure is recorded by the following notice in The London Gazette of 7th January 1971 (p.241):
The Registrar General, being satisfied that METHODIST CHAPEL, Chesterfield Road, Pleasley, in the registration district of Chesterfield in the County of Derbyshire is no longer used as a place of worship by the congregation on whose behalf it was on 14th June 1901, registered for marriages in accordance with the Marriage Act, 1836, has cancelled the registration. Dated 29th December 1970.
The premises are now in commercial use.

Denomination

Now or formerly 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 SK5012264601. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Wesleyan Methodist Church, Pleasley shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Pleasley 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 Pleasley, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

You may like to see photograph(s) of Chapel near Pit Lane on the Geograph website.
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.

Information last updated on 1 Dec 2013 at 14:21.

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This Report was created 21 Nov 2024 - 21:05:00 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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