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Matlock Wesleyan Chapel (Trinity Methodist Church),
Oak Road (off Bank Road), DE4 3FJ,
Matlock, Derbyshire.

Cemeteries

We believe the Chapel 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 by 1884, and we understand it is still open.

Originally known as Matlock Wesleyan Chapel, and later (1932-1965) Trinity Methodist Church, this building is now Matlock Methodist and United Reformed Church. Derbyshire Record Office's Non-Conformist Register Guide says its first building was at Matlock Bridge, erected in 1840, then rebuilt (presumably in its present position, off Bank Road), in 1890. It also provides the information that its baptism registers before 1949 include entries for whole of Matlock Trinity Circuit and its predecessors.

The following notice in The London Gazette of 5th September 1884 (p.3998), recording its registration for marriages, suggests the new building was erected before 1890:

NOTICE is hereby given, that a separate building, named Wesleyan Chapel, situate at Bank-road, Matlock Bridge, in the parish of Matlock, in the county of Derby, in the district of Bakewell, being a building certified according to law as a place of religious worship, was, on the 13th August, 1884, duly registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act 6th and 7th Wm. 4, cap. 85, being substituted for the building known as Wesleyan Chapel, Matlock Bridge, now disused. Dated 16th August 1884.

Its predecessor is described elsewhere in this database. See also Ann Andrews' excellent webpage of Matlock Churches and Chapels.

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 is located at OS grid reference SK3004460455. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Matlock Wesleyan Chapel (Trinity Methodist Church), 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.