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St Martin's Methodist Church,
Flint Street, DE24 9BH,
Allenton, Derby, 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 1930, and we understand it is still open.

The Derby Methodist History website tells us that a Methodist congregation began meeting in Allenton in a room in Upper Moor Road, next to the Crown Inn. Possibly this was the Mission Room shown on Old Maps of 1900 and 1914 in exactly that location, which so far I've been unable to attribute with any degree of certainty to any particular denomination.

At any rate, it appears to have been prestigious enough to be registered for marriages, as The London Gazette of 7th February 1930 (p.835) recorded its cancellation:

NOTICE is hereby given that the Place of Meeting for religious worship, described as WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL, situated at Upper Moor-road, Allenton, in the civil parish of Alvaston and Boulton, in the registration district of Shardlow, in the county of Derby, which was duly certified for worship on the 16th day of January, 1897, has wholly ceased to be used as a Place of Meeting for religious worship by the congregation on whose behalf it was so certified, and that the Registrar General has caused the record of the certification thereof to be cancelled, pursuant to the Act 18 & 19 Vic., c.81, from the 5th day of February, 1930. Dated 5th February 1930.

Their first permanent building was erected in Flint Street that year, but I have been unable to find a follow-up registration for the new premises. Perhaps this is because it was never registered, and certainly, Derbyshire Record Office's Non-Conformist Register Guide does not mention marriage records for St Martins Methodist - only for baptisms, 1896-1973.

1973 was in fact an important year in the Church's history. Its congregation had been joined in 1967 by that of London Road (Osmaston) Methodist, when it closed; and later, in 1972 by that of Davenport Road Methodist, after its closure. The larger congregation allowed a new Church to be built the following year, after which the 1930s building became the Church Hall.

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 SK3687132622. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• St Martin's Methodist Church, Allenton, Derby shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Derby 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 Allenton, Derby, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• “Celebrating 250 years of Methodism in Derby” - Derby Methodist History (null) (verified 2018-09-27)
• 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.