Melbourne Baptist Church, Melbourne, Derbyshire, Church History

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Melbourne Baptist Church, Melbourne

Melbourne Baptist Church,
Chapel Street, DE73 8EH,
Melbourne, Derbyshire.

Cemeteries

This Church has (or 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 1747, and we understand it is still open.

The congregation of Melbourne Baptist Church originated about 1747, after the church at Barton in the Beans, in Leicestershire, sent itinerant preachers to the area. Like its parent church, Melbourne was originally Independent (so described on a 1753 marriage covenant), but both were General Baptist by 1760, with Melbourne being one of the founders of the General Baptist new Connexion.
The first chapel, built in 1747-8 was 'virtually rebuilt' in 1832, and today only the lower openings, for two doors and a central venetian-style window, remain recognisable as work of the 1750s. There is a burial ground to the rear, with memorials to (1) Ann wife of James WORSTALL (1760), (2) Thomas ROBINSON (1768) and several family members, and (3) John Joseph, son of James and Ann NEWBOLD (1845) "with cherub in oval cartouche", and there are other memorials inside the church. The organ was brought in 1856 from Great Meeting in Leicester.
A school was added to the north, next to the chapel in 1810. It is built of brick, was enlarged in 1835 and rebuilt in 1852. The two are joined by a narrow frontage, also brick. The Baptist Church itself is now a Grade II Listed Building - see the British Listed Buildings website for details. [Source: Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses, Derbyshire (1986)]
There may be more information available by by selecting one or more of the accompanying images on the right.

Denomination

Now or formerly General Baptist.

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 SK3863025367. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

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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)
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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 Melbourne, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

Learn more about Buildings of special or historical interest on the British Listed Buildings (null) (verified 2018-09-19)

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 6 Jun 2011 at 12:06.

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This Report was created 23 Nov 2024 - 23:32:01 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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