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Tideswell Methodist Church,
Fountain Square, SK17 8PF,
Tideswell, 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 1888, and we understand it is still open.

The return to the Religious Census of 1851 (HO 129/449/3/21/28) for the "Wesleyan Methodist Chapel" in Tideswell describes a separate building erected in 1810 used exclusively as a place of worship by a Wesleyan Methodist congregation. It had free sittings for 70, and 85 "other" sittings, and the estimated congregation on March 30th was 40 in the morning, 60 in the evening and a Sunday School class in the afternoon attended by 80 Scholars. The return was completed by Thomas Bramwell, who described himself as "Local Preacher", of "Tideswell, Derbyshire".

The following notice in The London Gazette of 20th February 1891 (p.956) recorded its registration for marriages:

NOTICE is hereby given, that a separate building, named Wesleyan Chapel, situate at Tideswell, in the parish of Tideswell, 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 14th day of February, 1891, duly registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th Wm. 4, cap. 85. Dated 16th February 1891.

There is no mention of the Chapel in Derbyshire Record Office's Non-Conformist Register Guide; and it is not know (if any) what Circuit it belonged to. It does, nevertheless remain open, and as explained below, also welcomes the congregation of the former United Reformed Church, in Parke Road.

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

Denomination

Now or formerly 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 is located at OS grid reference SK1510975579. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• Tideswell Methodist Church, Tideswell shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Tideswell 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 Tideswell, 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.