St SAVIOUR`S CHURCH.

This award winning `Tin Tabernacle` Victorian church has been rescued from the railway village of Westhouses. Built in 1898 to support the village of Westhouses and moved to Swanwick Junction when it fell into disuse. Swanwick Junction is part of the Midland Railway Trust, Butterley, Ripley, Derbyshire, England.

 

 

 

 

The entrance to the church.

 

 

Inside view looking down towards the alter from the entrance.

 

 

 

 

Westhouses is a village within Derbyshire, situated close to the town of Alfreton. It is in the Bolsover District of the county. Named after West House Farm, the settlement was founded in the 1870`s. The Midland Railway was the main employer and landowner, many of the roads where named after the Midland Railway Directors.