| Administrative History | The first Methodist Church was the Primitive church on Sheffield Road opposite Shaw Street, built in 1840. It was used as a school room for many years. A new church was built in 1870 on Station Road, Whittington Moor with a school room on the opposite side of the road in 1904. These buildings were requisitioned by the British government in 1941 and the congregation amalgamated with the former Wesleyan congregation approximately 100 yards away on Sheffield Road.
There was a Wesleyan congregation in Whittington Moor from about c1810, but moved to Newbold Moor when the new chapel opened there c1840. A new Wesleyan church returned in 1872 and built a chapel on Sheffield Road. Nationally, the Primitive and Wesleyan churches merged in 1932. The former Primitive congregation on Station Road amalgamated with the former Wesleyan congregation on Sheffield Road in 1941 following the requisition of the former Primitive church by the British government.
In 1860, a Free Methodist chapel was built on Sheffield Road, although it was known as Duke Street. The building was demolished in 1904 and the congregation, now the United Methodist Free Church, moved to Albert Street, the church being known as St Johns Road.
As a result of the construction of the inner relief road, the Sheffield Road and St Johns Road churches united in 1982, worshipping in a new church on Scarsdale Road. |
| Custodial History | Records were deposited in Derbyshire Record Office for Whittington Moor Primitive and Wesleyan Methodist Churches via the Central (Saltergate) Chesterfield Methodist Circuit in January 1991 as part of D3458, and were re-accessioned in 1993 and further re-accessioned to D6473 Station Road, formerly Primitive, Methodist Church and D6474 Sheffield Road, formerly Wesleyan, Methodist Church in November 2024.
Records for Whittington Moor Methodist Church from 1982 were deposited in by the Chesterfield Methodist Circuit in February 2014 and January 2018 and by the archivist of the Sheffield District of the Methodist Church in November 2024. |
| Archivist Note | Catalouged, 1993.
Updated 22 May 1998, PE.
Updated and revised to ISAD(G) standard, 30 November 2024.
The collection Title was originally Whittington Moor Primitive Methodist, but the collection had been used for records relating to Station Road, formerly Primitive, Methodist Church and Sheffield Road, formerly Wesleyan Methodist Church, as well as the new Whittington Moor Methodist Church which opened in 1982. The records for the former Primitive and Wesleyan churches were re-accessioned to D6473 and D6474 respectively in November 2024. |