Although, for many, religion plays a less significant role in daily life nowadays, for centuries, the church had a major impact on everybody.
As with many industrial areas, from the 18th century onwards, the Heanor area saw a dramatic swing away from the Established Church towards the non-conformism.
A search of the Society’s newsletters has found reference to some fifty-two churches and chapels in our area. Some, of course, are long gone, while others continue as places of worship today. In some cases, the buildings remain, but with a different use.
This page merely lists the known premises.
Eventually, separate pages will be added wherever sufficient information can be obtained. It has to be accepted, though, that some will never get more than this single reference to them.
Aldercar St. John’s
Codnor Bethesda Chapel
Codnor Breach Quakers Meeting House
Codnor Castle Chapel (mediaeval)
Codnor Christian Science Church
Codnor Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Codnor Methodist Church
Codnor Primitive Methodist Chapel
Codnor St. James (Crosshill Church)
Codnor United Methodist Free Church
Codnor Wesleyan Chapel
Heanor Baptist Church, Heanor Common (Derby Rd)
Heanor Calvinist
Heanor Christadelphian Hall
Heanor Free Church, Midland Road
Heanor Free Methodist Chapel, Mount Street
Heanor Friends Meeting House
Heanor Independent Chapel
Heanor Latter Day Saints
Heanor Mansfield Road Methodist Chapel
Heanor Methodist Chapel, Tagg Hill
Heanor Pentecostal Church, Hands Road
Heanor Presbyterian Chapel, Abbott Street
Heanor Primitive Methodist Chapel, Park Street
Heanor Salvation Army Citadel, Derby Road
Heanor St. Lawrence
Heanor Spiritualist Church, Bircumshaw Road
Heanor Wesleyan Chapel
Langley Chapel (United Reformed Church), Breach Rd
Langley Friends Meeting House
Langley Methodist Chapel
Langley St. Mary’s
Langley Mill Baptist Church
Langley Mill Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Langley Mill Mission Church, Elnor Street
Langley Mill New Horizon Christian Centre
Langley Mill Primitive Methodist
Langley Mill St Andrews
Langley Mill United Methodist
Langley Mill Wesleyan Chapel
Loscoe Baptist Chapel/Schoolroom
Loscoe Mission Church, Denby Lane
Loscoe Primitive Methodist Chapel
Loscoe, St. Luke’s
Marlpool All Saints
Marlpool Cemetery Chapels
Marlpool Church of the Sacred Heart
Marlpool Congregational Chapel
Marlpool Independent Chapel
Marlpool Mount Zion Chapel
Marlpool United Reformed Church
Milnhay Independent Chapel
Milnhay Primitive Chapel
Shipley Hall Chapel
Smalley Baptist Chapel
Smalley St. John the Baptist
Stoneyford Mission Church
(It is likely that this list contains some errors and omissions – please let us know. In particular, the author is not fully up to speed with the different branches of the Methodist movement. There is also likely to be some duplication, as chapels changed their names over the years.)
If anyone is sitting on a history of any of the above, please get in touch – use the ContactUs page.
We are grateful to the following persons for letting us have copies of photographs:
Colin Pounder (Wesleyan Church), Neville Sharpe (Loscoe Church), and Terry Smith (Langley St Mary’s)
