King Street Methodist Chapel was a Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Derby, Derbyshire.[1]
| King Street Methodist Church, Derby | |
|---|---|
  King Street Methodist Church, Derby Location within Derby | |
| 52°55′34.0″N 1°28′48.9″W / 52.926111°N 1.480250°W | |
| Location | Derby, Derbyshire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Wesleyan Methodist |
| Architecture | |
| Architect(s) | James Simpson |
| Completed | 1841 |
| Demolished | 1966 |
| Specifications | |
| Capacity | 1,400 people. |
| Length | 90 feet (27 m) |
| Width | 64 feet (20 m) |
History edit
The first Methodist Chapel in Derby was built in St Michael's Lane in 1765. In 1805 a chapel was built in King-street to accommodate a congregation of 800 people. By 1840 it was insufficient for the congregation and a new building was planned.
The foundation stone of the new chapel building was laid on 29 October 1840.[2] It was built to the designs of the architect James Simpson of Leeds and opened on 29 September 1841.[3] Pevsner describes the building as having a fine, stately Grecian front with one-storeyed Greek Doric porch, and an upper floor with Ionic pilasters, arched windows and a pediment.
On either side of the chapel, a minister's house was built. The one on the left was occupied by the Reverend George Browne Macdonald (1805–1868), and his second wife Hannah (née Jones) (1809–1875), whose eleven children were:
- Mary (1834–1836)
- Henry (1836–1891)
- Alice Kipling (1837-1910) (mother of Rudyard Kipling)
- Caroline (1838–1854)
- Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones (1840-1920) (wife of Edward Burne-Jones)
- Frederic William (1842–1928) (a President of the Wesleyan conference)
- Lady Agnes Poynter (wife of the president of the Royal Academy Edward Poynter)
- Louisa Baldwin (1845–1925) (the mother of the ex-Prime Minister, Mr Stanley Baldwin)
- Walter (1847-1847)
- Edith (1848–1937)
- Herbert (1850–1851)
It was demolished in 1966.
Organ edit
A pipe organ was installed in 1841 by Booth. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.[4] When the church closed, the organ was moved to Queen's Hall Methodist Mission in Wigan.
References edit
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Williamson, Elizabeth (1979). The Buildings of England. Derbyshire. Penguin Books Limited. p. 173. ISBN 0140710086.
- ^ "Laying of the foundation stone of a new Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in King-Street, Derby". Derby Mercury. England. 4 November 1840. Retrieved 12 June 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Opening of the New Wesleyan Chapel, Derby". Derby Mercury. England. 6 October 1841. Retrieved 12 June 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "NPOR [N05289]". National Pipe Organ Register. British Institute of Organ Studies. Retrieved 11 June 2017.