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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.

In 1542 Henry VIII rebuilt the church already on this site to keep plague victims from being carried through his palace grounds because at the time it was an isolated spot in the fields.

Our delightful church is situated in the picturesque village of Bangor on Dee overlooking the river and the 16th century cobbled bridge.

Opened for worship in 1776, the church is most famously associated with William Wilberforce and the group of friends known to history as 'the Clapham Sect'.

Built 1886-90 by Nicholson of Hereford on land given by WE Powell of Nanteos, it replaced a church of 1833 by Edward Haycock of Shrewsbury.

The building history is complex; built as a plain chapel of ease to St Andrew Holborn at the beginning of the 18th century.

St George's Bloomsbury, the work of Nicholas Hawksmoor, is one of the finest Baroque churches in London and indeed has been described as ‘one of the capital’s most wonderful buildings’.

Westminster Abbey presents a unique pageant of British history; the shrine of St Edward the Confessor, the tombs of kings and queens, and countless memorials to the famous and the great, it has been the setting for every Coronation since 1066 and for numerous other royal occasions.