Station Street Baptist Church is a

Baptist Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing Christian believers only (believer's baptism), and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches also generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul compete ...

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 ...

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History

The congregation was founded in 1861 and they met in a carpenter's shop on High Street, Long Eaton. Numbers grew rapidly and a new site was acquired on Station Road. The foundation stone for the new building was laid by R. Birkin, one of the Directors of the

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in May 1864 and the first chapel erected at a cost of £350 (). This was used as the chapel and school until 1880. The church acquired the adjacent site and on Whit Monday 1880 the foundation stone for the new church was laid by Mr. Hill of Quorndon and Mr. Hooley of Long Eaton. It was erected by the contractors Coxon and Rice to the designs of the architect Mr. Keating of Nottingham. It cost £1,370 ()and opened on 20 October 1880. In 1887 part of the congregation split to form another congregation which built

St John's Baptist Chapel, Long Eaton St John's Baptist Chapel, Long Eaton is a former Baptist Church in Long Eaton, Derbyshire. History The congregation was formed by members who seceded from the Baptist Chapel in Station Street, Long Eaton, in 1887. They held their initial meeting ...

. A new Sunday School with a frontage of on Station Road was built at a cost of £2,200 () was opened on the adjacent site on 23 June 1908. It comprised five large classrooms on the ground floor, and two large rooms divided on the corridor by pitch-pine partitions. The large hall on the first floor was by wide. The architect was

Ernest Hooley Ernest Hooley LRIBA (30 June 1880 - 1962) was an architect based in Long Eaton. Architectural career He was articled to Edwin Clarke of Nottingham in 1894. Later he was assistant to Edmund Herbert Child and William Dymock Pratt until 1901. He wa ...

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