Church on Mansfield Road

[malcsmith 2]

Anyone help my old memory? There used to be a large church on Mansfield Road/York Street area. I remember it being a very large church. Not to be confused with the Trinity Church. Any one recall its name or have photo?

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

You're probably thinking of the Wesleyan Chapel on Mansfield Road. It gets a lot of mentions in this thread on York House.  https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/13144-york-house/?page=1

 

[malcsmith 2]

That's the one and good photo on the other thread thanks

[nonnaB 4,895]

As a child I went there. If I recall correctly the church higher up on Mansfield rd nearer to the Forest was being transferred to york st .It was right on the corner. Dont remember why. I must have been 8/9.

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

Higher up on Mansfield Road, near the Forest, on a corner........this ?

It's the corner of Villa Road and is now a Sikh temple, which might explain why the original church was being transferred.

 

The boarded-up building on the right is the former Neales auction place, which gets its own thread here... https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/14757-old-roller-skating-rink/#comment-498490

 

[nonnaB 4,895]

Yes thats it.Do you know whether that was a weslyan church too? I was baptised Methodist but I know my family going back years were weslyan. 

Thanks Cliff Ton

[Jill Sparrow 10,307]

#5

 

Surely this was St Andrew's church? My grandfather, Louis Saunt, and his younger brother, Archie, were both baptised there in the early 1890s. 

[Cliff Ton 10,467]

 

1 hour ago, nonnaB said:

Yes thats it. Do you know whether that was a weslyan church too? I was baptised Methodist but I know my family going back years were weslyan. 

Thanks Cliff Ton

On old maps it's always marked as Presbyterian.

 

1 hour ago, Jill Sparrow said:

#5  Surely this was St Andrew's church? My grandfather, Louis Saunt, and his younger brother, Archie, were both baptised there in the early 1890s. 

St Andrew's church is further up at the top of Mansfield Road at the junction with Forest Road; this church here is half way down Mansfield Road towards Vic Centre.

[Jill Sparrow 10,307]

#8

 

Yes, I see now. It was being sited on a corner that confused me!

[DavidA 153]

My grandparents went to the church on the corner of Villa Road when they moved to Nottingham in the 1920's from Scotland. It was Presbyterian. The congregation later merged with another Presbyterian church (St Andrews on Goldsmith Street). I think the church on Mansfield Road was St Columba's.

[Tim in the North East 200]

The church at the end of Villa Road has clearly  'changed hands' several times. I don't remember it as a Presbyterian church but in the 1960s it was a Christian Scientist Church - with their display window showing key texts built into the wall next to the NCT bus stop.