Default Image Place of Worship has been
Demolished.
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Gospel Hall (Demolished?),
Wye Street,
Buxton, 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 by 1928, but we understand it was closed by 1931.

The following notice in The London Gazette of 15th May 1931 (p.3158) indicates the duration of this Mission Hall:

NOTICE is hereby given that the Place of Meeting for religious worship, described as GOSPEL HALL, situated at Ground Floor, Wye-street, in the civil parish of Buxton, in the registration district of Chapel-en-le-Frith, in the county of Derby, which was duly certified for worship on the 18th day of December, 1928, 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 Vic., c.81, from the 14th day of May, 1931. Dated 14th May 1931.

There is no indication in Wye Street today where the meeting place may have been, so the location below is approximate.

Perhaps it was a forerunner of the Gospel Hall on the south-east corner of the junction of Hardwick Square and Darwin Avenue; and so the above closure notice provides an indication of when they took over the building from the Catholic Apostolic Church.

Denomination

Now or formerly Mission Hall.

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 in the town/village nearest OS grid reference SK0611373637. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Gospel Hall (Demolished?), Buxton shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Buxton 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 Buxton, 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.