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Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire

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Christian Fellowship on High Pavement.
SK 4967 5879. © David Regan (2021).

New Cross Community Church (Methodist/CoE) on Downing Street and Morley Street is the former New Cross Primitive Methodist Chapel, dated here to "the early years of the Twentieth Century", and here to 1913-14. The building to its left is/was the Sunday School. SK 4986 5950. Link.

The former Reform Street Primitive Methodist Chapel, dated here to 1840. It has long been in commercial use. SK 4958 5860. © David Regan (2021). A My Primitive Methodist entry is asking for information regarding the location of a "Pulpit in a wall", of which there is a photo.

St. John's Methodist Church on Titchfield Avenue and Brook Street. The "Golden Jubilee" page of the appended link says that it was 50 years old in 2018 (i.e. 1968). This is odd, as a Meth. Ch. is shown at the same location on a map of 1938, with what seems to be the same footprint as that part of the church gable-end to the road in David's photo. Another view. SK 4918 5873. Both © David Regan (2021). Link.

St. Joseph the Worker (R.C., 1959-61) on Forest Street. SK 4966 5883. © David Regan (2021). Link, and its history page, which mentions its predecessors. Apart from the initial services in private homes, there was a room above a garage on Queen's Place (off Outram Street), converted into a small chapel, followed by a house on High Pavement, now "the Social Club". I haven't been able to locate Queen's Place, but the social club is probably St. Joseph's Club, seen here in a Streetview from 2020.

St. Mary Magdalene. Another view. SK 4895 5896. Both © David Regan (2011). Link. Grade II* listed.

The former St. Michael and All Angels on Outram Street dates from 1886, and was closed in 2003. Another view. SK 5000 5945. Both © David Regan (2021). Link.

St. Modwen, most recently off Forest Street (1936/7 to 1987, demolished 1991), has a rather complicated history, for which see here, where there are also several photos. SK 4979 5883. One of its several predecessors was a tin tabernacle, which stood here (where the cars and trees are), and a photo of its interior can be seen here. Another was a Mission in a former Ebenezer Chapel on Hardwick Street. There's a photo of it here in 1996. What is likely to be the building is labelled only as Chap. on the 6" O.S. map of 1900, at SK 4971 5870. Since demolished, it stood on the right hand side of the road as seen here in a 2009 Streetview.

Seventh-day Adventist Church on Dalestorth Street. Circa SK 5018 5994. © David Regan (2021).

Spiritualist Church on The Twitchell and Coburn Street. SK 4957 5843. © David Regan (2021). Link.

The Bridge Baptist Church (1908) on Mansfield Road. There are several on-line references to it as Zion Baptist Church too, by which name it was known originally. SK 5022 5967. © David Regan (2021). Link. A Baptist Chapel is shown nearby on earlier maps, on Chapel Street at SK 5045 5965. Chapel and road have both gone, and its site now lies beneath a car parking area off Eastfield Side, as seen here on a 2019 Streetview. I haven't been able to find any additional information about this chapel.

U.R.C. (1905-6, as Congregational) on High Pavement. This source says there has been worship on the site since 1651. More history can be found here (written in 1948), where there is a photo of the "First Congregational Place of Worship in Sutton-in-Ashfield" on Market Street, still standing at that date. It has since been demolished, and its site can be seen in a Streetview from 2020. SK 4952 5866. © David Regan (2021). Grade II listed.

The site of the demolished Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Outram Street and Welbeck Street. A drawing is available here, where it's dated to circa 1883. Two photos can be found here (scroll down) showing that the chapel had a radical refurbishent or re-build at some point. More here. SK 4969 5900. © David Regan (2021).

 

 

 

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