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Trinity Methodist Church,
Heywood Street / High Street,
Brimington, 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, but we understand it was closed in 1967.

A Chapel is shown at this location on Old Maps from 1899. In 1962-1965 it is called "Trinity Methodist Church". Next door there was a Church Hall, where in previous years there was a Sunday School. None of the Maps, so far as I'm aware, label its congregation's adherence to a particular denomination, but the Picture The Past website has a photograph of it as the Wesleyan Chapel in the High Street - this shows it is the same building which was mapped as "Trinity", and is now the home of "Brimington Parish Council Community Centre".

Its closure was recorded by the following notice in The London Gazette of 18th April 1967 (p.4348):

The Registrar General, being satisfied that TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH, High Street, Brimington in the registration district of Chesterfield in the county of Derby is no longer used as a place of worship by the congregation on whose behalf it was on 5th October 1897 registered for marriages in accordance with the Marriage Act, 1836, has cancelled the registration. Dated 13th April 1967.

Brimington Methodist Church, in Hall Road, was registered for marriages on the same day.

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 SK4050073629. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

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

• Historical Photos of Derby, Derbyshire and Nottingham ~ Picture The Past (null) (verified 2018-10-12)
• 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.