St John's Baptist Chapel, Long Eaton is a former Baptist Church in

Long Eaton Long Eaton is a town in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England, just north of the River Trent, about south-west of Nottingham and some 8½ miles (13.7 km) south-east of Derby. The town population was 37,760 at the 2011 census. It has ...

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 ...

History

The congregation was formed by members who seceded from the Baptist Chapel in Station Street, Long Eaton, in 1887. They held their initial meetings in the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Chapel Street until they were able to open their own chapel. This was built in Clumber Street, Long Eaton to the designs of the architect,

Ernest Reginald Ridgway Ernest Reginald Ridgway (1852 - 19 July 1917) was an English architect based in Long Eaton. Career He was born in 1852 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the son of William Ridgway (1819-1903) and Mary. He married Mary Eliza Sketchley (1851-1904) ...

. The contractor was Mr. Youngman. The foundation stone was laid on Tuesday 25 June 1895 and the building was opened for worship on 5 November 1895. The baptist congregation vacated in 1980. It was then used by the Emmanuel Evangelical Free Church but the church building is now used by the New Testament Church of God.

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