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Borrowash Borrowash is a village in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England, situated immediately east of the Derby city boundary. The appropriate civil parish is called Ockbrook and Borrowash. History Borrowash was, for most of its history, the sec ...
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Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...
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History

The church was built by the contractor Henry Vernon of Derby, to designs by John Wills, who in the same year built an almost identical chapel in Beeston - (see
Queen's Road Methodist Church Queen's Road Methodist Church was a Methodist church in Beeston, Nottinghamshire History The church had its origins in a mission formed in connection with the Chapel-Street Wesleyan Church in 1884. The church was built by the contractor William ...
). The church was opened on 30 May 1900. The building was designed for 415 people and cost around £2,250 (equivalent to £ in ).


Organ

The church has a pipe organ by J.H. Adkins of Derby from 1920. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.


References

{{reflist Churches completed in 1900 Gothic Revival church buildings in England Gothic Revival architecture in Derbyshire Methodist churches in Derbyshire