Becket Street UM Chapel and caretaker’s house were built in 1857 and cost £2462. The organ cost a further £305. The school which cost £572 was built in 1879. In 1923 the chapel seated 600.
Derbyshire Record Office D1820 MJ/7/2 Special trust schedules and related papers, Derby, Becket Street Circuit
Derby, Becket Street United Methodist Free Churches Chapel
Derby, Beckett Street UMFC. Ordnance Survet Town plan 1:500 Derby-Derbyshire L.13.1 (1883)
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The architects were Giles and Brookhouse of Derby
Wakeling, Christopher ‘The architecture of the non-conformist churches during the Victorian and Edwardian years. PhD. thesis, University of East Anglia, 1983. Appendix 2 Derby case study
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