Crosland Moor Wesleyan Methodist Church
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Also known as Park Road Methodist Church.
The society was established c1827 using members houses for meetings, the Sunday School and preaching room were built in Nabcroft Lane in 1845. The chapel was taken over by Wesleyan Reformers c1851. The Wesleyans held services in members houses form c1851; they used James Clough's house in Brierley Wood, 1859 -1861 and later Mrs Bywater's house in Matlock Street. Meetings were sometimes so crowded that people had to sit upstairs and downstairs and the preacher stood on the stairs. The chapel and Sunday School were built in Park Road 1864 - 1865 and the Sunday School being enlarged in 1878 - 1879. The new chapel was built next door in 1905 -1906 and the old chapel was used as the Sunday School from 1906. The Sunday School was demolished in 1964 and a new one with a church hall was built on the site, 1964 - 1965 and opened 1965. The congregation used the church hall for worship from 1978, the chapel was vandalised in 1979 and demolished in 1980. Note: The congregation were known as the 'cushonites' because they took the cushions from the Nabcroft Lane Chapel as their share of the assets at the Reform split, c1851.