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Nottingham - Woodborough Road Baptist Church

Woodborough Road Baptist Church, 163 Woodborough Road, Nottingham NG3 1AX. The church, designed by the eminent Nottingham architect Watson Fothergill, opened in 1895. It closed in the 1970s and the congregation transferred to the newly built Chase Wood Church, Nottingham. Around 1980 the former church was purchased by the Pakistani League of Friends and it is now an Islamic Community Centre. The church’s two Great War memorials, one listing fatalities the other members of the congregation who served and returned, which had not been removed when the church closed, were later conserved by Rory Newsome. ‘My former history teacher,’ he notes, 'bought them from a salvage company that had cleared out the church and offered them to me last summer. I purchased them to protect their existence.' A Stamford stone mason was commissioned by the Lincoln and North Lincolnshire Branch of the Western Front Association, which had agreed to underwrite the costs incurred in the restoration and transfer of the memorial to a new site. The stonemason generously waived his costs in restoring and installing the memorials. The memorials were relocated to Mansfield Road Baptist Church, Forest Fields, Nottingham NG7 6JN, in 2020 and were rededicated on Saturday, 3 July 2021. The service was held in accordance with the Covid-19 restrictions then in force and was conducted by the minister of Mansfield Road Baptist Church and attended by representatives of the WFA, church and the stonemason's team.

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