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St John's Church (now Springs Christian Centre),
Derby Road,
Marehay, Ripley, 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 1884, but we understand it was closed in 1985.

Kelly's Directory of 1895 records that St John's, a district church for the Green Hillocks, was erected in 1894 at a cost of £4.000, and replaced a former iron church built by the Butterley Company, at a cost of about £800. The new church was said to be of red brick with stone dressings in the Early English style and consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, and a small central turret with spire containing one bell. There were 400 sittings. The Rev. Charles Robert Round had been curate in charge since 1884.

St John's was closed on 1st January 1985, and was taken over on 5th November 1986 for "worship by other Christian bodies". [Source: Church Commissioners Report on Pastoral and Closed Churches in Derby Diocese, on the Church of England website]

In the present day the sign on the outside of the building reads "Springs Christian Centre". This may well be the same as that listed in Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) as the "Springs of Living Water Christian Centre" in Derby Road, with an Assemblies of God congregation.

Denomination

Now or formerly Church of England.

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 SK4001649621. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• St John's Church (now Springs Christian Centre), Marehay, Ripley shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Ripley 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 Marehay, Ripley, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• The Church Commissioners Report on Pastoral and Closed Churches, found on the Church of England (null) (verified 2018-10-04)
• Places recorded by the Registrar General under the provisions of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 (2010) is available as a "Freedom of Information" document on the website What Do They Know. (verified 2018-10-14)

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.