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Demolished.
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Church Street Methodist Church (Demolished),
Church Street (south side),
Clowne, 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 1894, but we understand it was closed in 1953.

Clowne's second Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (or Church) stood on the south side of Church Street, opposite its junction with Rectory Road, and replaced a previous building, called "Ebenezer", dating from 1845. It is shown on Old Maps of 1899 onwards as a rectangular building with a front porch, and having narrow transepts (or perhaps side extensions) at the rear. In 1916 it is labelled as "Wes. Meth Church".

There is a photograph showing the stone laying ceremony prior to its opening on the Picture The Past website with a suggested date of 1900s, but it is believed the Church opened earlier, in 1894. [Source: David Lindley]

The following notice in The London Gazette of 24th January 1911 (p.623) recorded its registration for marriages:

A Separate Building, duly certified for religious worship, named WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, situated at Church-street, in the civil parish of Clowne, in the county of Derby, in Worksop Registration District, was on the 17th January, 1911, registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to 6th and 7th Wm. IV, c.85. Dated 18th January 1911.

A corresponding notice cancelling the registration for marriages of "METHODIST CHURCH, Church Street, Clowne" was published in the Gazette of 19th March 1954 (p.1687), though apparently the building remained for another 30 years or so after that, as according to the account accompanying the above-mentioned photo its demolition took place in the 1980s. It also records that College View Flats now occupy the site.

The Derbyshire Record Office hold registers of baptisms under the name "Church Street Methodist Church" for the period 1942-1952. They also provide the information that it was closed in 1953.

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 SK4944475471. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Church Street Methodist Church (Demolished), Clowne shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Clowne 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 Clowne, 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.