Norton Street Congregational Church is a former Congregational Church on Norton Street in

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. Until 1904 it was known as Bloomsgrove Congregational Church.

History

The church started life in 1836 as the Bloomsgrove Mission founded by

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. It moved from a mission church on Ronald Street to the corner of Norton Street and Denman Street in 1894. The Mission's Ronald Street premises were then used by the Bloomsgrove Social Club. A new church was erected in 1894 to designs by the architect

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.Nottinghamshire Guardian - Saturday 14 April 1894 It was designed for 500 people and cost £3,000. The foundation stone was laid on Monday 9 April 1894. In 1904, 187 members transferred from

to Bloomsgrove to form a new church, which was renamed Norton Street Congregational Church. In 1917 the church expanded by merging with the Old Radford Mission on Cobden Street. Norton Street Church joined the

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in 1972, but falling membership caused its closure in November 1979.

References

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