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Old Chapel,
Hall Bank,
Hartington, Derbyshire.

Cemeteries

We don't know whether this Chapel had 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 1809, but we understand it was closed after 1995.

The booklet Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses, Derbyshire (1986) records this building under "Hartington Town Quarter" - "rendered stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof" - and as dated 1809. In spite of this early date of foundation, I have been unable to locate a return for it to the 1851 Religious Census. Hartington's Parish Church also appears to have been omitted too, so not just the Chapel. Both should have been part of the return for Ashbourne district.

The following notice in The London Gazette of 26th February 1957 (p.1311) does however record its registration for marriages:

A Building certified for worship named METHODIST CHAPEL, Up Town, Hartington, in the registration district of Ashbourne, in the county of Derby, was on 20th February, 1957, registered for solemnising marriages therein pursuant to section 41 of the Marriage Act, 1949. [Otherwise Undated]

Derbyshire Record Office's Non-Conformist Register Guide includes records of baptisms 1870-1895, with a note that baptisms from 1895 to c.1975 are to be found with Wetton and Longnor Circuit. This apparently included Longnor, Hartington, Wetton and Alstonefield Chapels.

There may be more information available by by selecting one or more of the accompanying images on the right.

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 Chapel was located at OS grid reference SK1294460344. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Old Chapel, Hartington shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Hartington 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 Hartington, 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.