| Description | Church and Committee Minutes 1911-1974, Treasurers Accounts 1919-1953, Sunday School Accounts 1916-1935, Mothers/Sisters Meetings Accounts 1923-1959, Secretary's accounts 1919-1925, Sunday School register 1967-1982, Chapel Secretary's Accounts 1931-1953, Baptism register 1928-1944, Certificate of Registry of Building 1960-1986, Preachers Plans 1934-1951, Newscuttings 1982, Foundation and journey of churches 1901-1979 |
| Administrative History | A Gospel Mission that met at the Oddfellows Hall on Market Place (ref: Bulmer's Directory, 1895) and later at the Primitive Methodist Church on Chapel Street (c1901) and then at Orchard Street (c1911) may have originally had links with the Gospel Mission on Willoughby Street in Beeston. Around 1913 they planned to purchase the "Old Palace" cinema on Queen Street for a mission hall, often referred to as "Tin Trunk". Some time earlier in the 1900s a number of members split from the Gospel Mission, forming the Rescue Mission, which met at the old Primitive Methodist Church, Chapel Street. The two Missions amalgamated in June 1917 to form the United Mission. In 1921, the mission moved to alternative premises on Chapel Street (constructed of corrugated iron, it had previously been the Railway Mission on Midland Street and was re-erected on Chapel Street).
The United Mission later became known as the United Mission Church and in May 1979 became the Emmanuel Evangelical Free Church. The church moved from Chapel Street in 1982 having purchased the old St John's Baptist Church (built 1895) on Clumber Street.
The Mission closed around 1975, becoming the Emmanuel Evangelical Free Church. |
| Custodial History | These records were donated to Derbyshire Record Office by Joyce Sims of Long Eaton in August 2007 and December 2023, having inherited them from her brother-in-law who was the final trustee of the church. |