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Friends Meeting House,
Jackson Road / Jackson Tor Road, DE4 3JQ,
Matlock, 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 1720, but we understand it was closed by 1933.

This former Friends' Meeting House is situated on the north-east corner of the junction of Jackson Road with Jackson Tor Road. It is built of local stone, with a large front-facing window of four lights, with a diamond-shaped aperture in the gable, and overhanging eaves with a trifoliate decoration, which in the present day are painted deep pink. It also has 2 side "aisles", separately roofed, and each with its own pointed-arched doorway.

The building has since been converted to residential occupation. It ceased to be used by the Friends in 1933, as the following notice in The London Gazette of 31st March 1933 (p.2206) indicates:

NOTICE is hereby given that the Place of Meeting for religious worship, described as FRIEND'S MEETING HOUSE, situated at Jackson Road, in the civil parish of Matlock, in the registration district of Bakewell, in the county of Derby, which was duly certified for worship on the 19th day of November, 1908, has wholly ceased to be used as a Place of Meeting for religious worship by the congregation on whose behalf it was so certified, and that the Registrar General has caused the record of the certification thereof to be cancelled pursuant to the Act 18 & 19 Vict., c.81, from the 29th day of March, 1933. Dated 29th March 1933.

Thereafter, it appears to have been adopted by an Assemblies of God congregation, when it became known as "Tor Side Hall".

For more information about the Meeting House, and other churches in the Matlock area, see Ann Andrews' excellent webpage of Matlock Churches and Chapels.

Denomination

Now or formerly Quaker.

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 SK3001960869. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Friends Meeting House, Matlock shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Matlock 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 Matlock, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• “The Andrews Pages”, featuring Ann Andrews' study of Matlock Churches and Chapels (null) (verified 2021-09-12)
• 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.