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Ilkeston United Reformed Church is a small but growing congregation in the middle of Ilkeston.

The church was commissioned in 1953 by Major General Sir GAN Swiney, KBE, CB, MC, who was Commander of Chilwell Ordinance Depot at the time.

Christ Church was built as a mission chapel in 1901-03, and consecrated in 1915.

The largest church in England’s smallest county; a late 13th century and early 14th century church in the centre of a rural market town.

The present site was established as a place of worship in the Middle Ages, and a medieval church is mentioned in records going back as far as 1253 and 1291.

In 1722 a fine early Georgian church was erected to the design of Thomas Eayre of Kettering (1691-1757), surveyor, clock maker, and bell founder (the bells here are by him as well).

The old parish church for Bramcote was a small chapel which had stood since at least 1246.

An early record of a church at Beeston records its appropriation to the Cluniac priory of Lenton between 1231 and 1267.

A much loved traditional church of early medieval origin with later tower and windows, showing evidence of major refurbishments in the 17th and 19th centuries.