Creswell, Mansfield Road United Methodist Free Church chapel was built of stone in 1897 and seated 350. A schoolroom and caretaker’s house were added in 1904. No building costs were known in 1923. In 1940 the accommodation consisted of a chapel which seated 400 in pews, a school hall and four other rooms.
In 2024 there is modern housing on the site.
Sources
Free Methodist Manual: London, Andrew Crombie, 1899 p 277 Sheffield District, Worksop Circuit
Nottinghamshire Record Office MR3/52 Special trust schedules and related papers c 1923-4
John Rylands Library University of Manchester, MAC Lawson, Methodist Church Buildings: Statistical returns including seating accommodation as at July 1st 1940 No 1016
OS 25 inch Derbyshire XIX 16 1914-16
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The building was demolished in 2008 following a full photographic survey.
Brightman, J. and Shakarian, J. (2008). United Methodist Chapel, Mansfield Road, Cresswell, Derbyshire: Photographic Survey. Archaeological Research Services. https://doi.org/10.5284/1009483
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