Formation
St Andrew's with Castle Gate United Reformed Church,Buildings
Following Union, the membership of St Andrew's-with-Castle Gate resolved to retain the former St Andrew's premises on Goldsmith Street, where it still worships and hosts its many other activities, while the Castle Gate premises were acquired by theHistory
The Church has a long and distinguished history of Christian witness in the city and county through its different branches. The history of Castle Gate Congregational Church can be traced to the mid-seventeenth century and the period of the English Civil War. A dissenting community of Independents (Congregationalists) first set up a Church in Castle Gate in 1689, while the existing building was opened in 1864. The St Andrew's Presbyterian Church was constituted in 1866 and its present building was opened in 1870. Both Churches assisted in the foundation of daughter churches in the locality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Castle Gate's included The Boulevard (Gregory Boulevard, 1823), Albion (Sneinton, 1856), Addison Street (1867), Queen's Walk (1874), Park Hill (Derby Road, 1880), Bloomsgrove (Norton Street, 1894), with missions at Thorneywood (1861) and Old Radford (1860-61). Most of these (The Boulevard being a distinguished exception) have now closed or have merged again with their mother churches. St Andrew's, in its turn, established the Hyson Green Mission (Noel Street) in 1885, where a new Church was opened in 1901, to survive until the close of WW2. In 1896, St Columba's was opened on the Mansfield Road, to re-unite with St Andrew's in 1946. The St Ann's Well Road Congregational Church, an independent foundation, united with Castle Gate Congregational Church in 1971, shortly before the majority of Congregational Churches in England and Wales united with the English Presbyterian Church to form theArchives
The archives of St Andrew's with Castle Gate URC, its precursors, and a number of their daughter churches are now located at The Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections atMinisters
The Castle Gate Congregational Church and the St Ann's Well Road Congregational Church (the latter in italics) The St Andrew's Presbyterian Church and the St Columba's Presbyterian Church (the latter in italics) St Andrew's-with-Castle Gate United Reformed ChurchOrgan
The organ was rebuilt in 1936 by J.W. Walker and modernised in 1982. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.See also
* Listed buildings in Nottingham (Hyson Green and Arboretum ward)References
{{reflist Churches completed in 1870 United Reformed churches in Nottingham Grade II listed churches in Nottinghamshire