Victoria Avenue Methodist Church, Borrowash, Derbyshire, Church History

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Victoria Avenue Methodist Church, Borrowash

Victoria Avenue Methodist Church,
Victoria Avenue, DE72 3HE,
Borrowash, 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 before 1905, but we understand it was closed in 1949.

The building at this location - the lower of the two photographs - is the successor of Borrowash's first Primitive Methodist Chapel (now the premises of Nationwide), directly opposite it on Victoria Avenue.
According to the Derby Methodist History website, it was united with the former Wesleyan Chapel in Nottingham Road in 1949. This is confirmed by the official notice of its closure in The London Gazette of 29th September 1950 (p.4870):
NOTICE is hereby given that the Building formerly known as VICTORIA AVENUE METHODIST CHURCH situated at Borrowash, Ockbrook, in the Registration, District of Shardlow in the county of Derby which was duly registered for marriages pursuant to the Act 6 & 7 Will. IV, cap. 85 is now no longer used as a Place, of Meeting for religious worship by the congregation on whose behalf it was so registered, and that the Registry thereof was therefore on the 21st day of September 1950 formally cancelled by the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for England and Wales. Dated 25th September 1950.
Its original registration for solemnizing marriages was recorded in a similar notice published in the Gazette on 7th November 1905 (p.7445).
Since then, it has been in secular use, and it is now (2013) the home of Borrowash Library.
There may be more information available by by selecting one or more of the accompanying images on the right.

Denomination

Now or formerly Primitive 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 SK4171934686. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Victoria Avenue Methodist Church, Borrowash shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Borrowash 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 Borrowash, 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.

Information last updated on 22 Sep 2013 at 15:32.

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This Report was created 27 Dec 2024 - 10:11:27 GMT from information held in the Derbyshire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 13 Oct 2021 at 14:33.

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