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Meersbrook Park United Reformed Church,
173 Chesterfield Road, S8 0RP,
Meersbrook, Norton, Derbyshire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Church does 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 1892, and we understand it is still open.

Kelly's Directory of 1912 records that a Congregational chapel was erected at Meersbrook in 1892, and that it had 600 sittings. The Rev. Walter LENWOOD, B.A. LL.B. was its pastor, and services were held at 10.30am and 6.30pm, and also Wednesday at 8pm.

It was registered for marriages the year after it was opened, as the following notice in The London Gazette of 10th January 1893 (p.145) indicates:

NOTICE is hereby given, that a separate building, named Congregational Church, situate at Meersbrook Park, Chesterfield-road, in the parish of Norton, in the county of Derby, in the district of Ecclesall Bierlow, being a building certified according to law as a place of religious worship, was, on the 4th day of January, 1893, duly registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th Wm. 4, cap. 85. Dated 4th January 1893.

In the present day, Meersbrook Park is part of the Sheffield South Group of United Reformed Churches. The group includes Meersbrook Park, Dore & Totley and The Michael Church. For more information see the URC Yorkshire Synod website. The present building is a replacement of the original Congregational Church.

Denomination

Now or formerly Congregational/United Reformed (URC).

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 is located at OS grid reference SK3486384437. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Meersbrook Park United Reformed Church, Meersbrook, Norton shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Norton 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 Meersbrook, Norton, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• Serving 98 Churches and their congregations - “Churchfinder” on the URC Yorkshire Synod (null) (verified 2018-10-01)
• 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.