Ambergate UMFC chapel was built of stone and slate in 1870. By 1923 £700 had been spent on the original construction, alterations and extensions. The premises consisted of a chapel seating 110 schoolroom below
Derbyshire Record Office D1820 MJ/2-9 Special trust schedules and related paper, 1923 Belper (Salem) Circuit
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In 1894 Ambergate, Bethel UMFC Chapel was described as a “neat stone edifice, with pretty porch and attractive frontage erected in 1869. In the east wall inside is a handsome marble tablet in memory of Thomas Summerside, who died in 1880, through whose exertions chiefly this chapel was built. Mr Summerside was a Northumbrian, and life long acquaintance of the celebrated George Stephenson,
Bulmers Directory of Derbyshire, 1894-5, p 663
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