Chesterfield, Marsden Street UM chapel was built in 1871. By 1923 the premises consisted of a chapel seating 800, a school room, and a chapel keeper’s house. The cost the original construction and subsequent alterations and extensions was unknown..
Derbyshire Record Office D1820 MJ/3.2 Special trust schedules and related papers, Chesterfield Circuit
(Ed.) This building is listed and a full description may be found here.
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In 1895 Chesterfield, Marsden Street UMFC chapel was described as
A handsome brick building in the Norman style, built in 1869 at a cost, including the purchase of the site, of £3300. The interior is elegantly decorated and furnished, all the woodwork being pitch pine. The ground floor will seat 450, and about 400 more can be accommodated in the gallery, which is carried round the whole building. An organ by Young and Son of Manchester was added in 1882 at a cost of £325. Adjoining is a Sunday school with caretaker’s house built in 1874 at a cost of £1400.
Sources
Bulmer’s Directory of Derbyshire, 1894-5, p. 64
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