Castle Gate Congregational Centre

Castle Gate Congregational Centre
Castle Gate Congregational Centre
Denomination	Formerly Congregational now Independent

Castle Gate Congregational Centre is in Nottingham. It is a Grade II listed building.

The congregation formed in the 1650s. The first meeting house on Castle Gate was established in 1689 under the Act of Toleration.

In 1863 the present building was erected to designs by the architect Richard Charles Sutton. and it opened for worship in 1864.

In 1972 the congregation joined the United Reformed Church and three years later merged with St. Andrew's United Reformed Church, Goldsmiths Street. In 1980 the congregational federation purchased the buildings back again.

In 2010, the El Shaddai International Christian Centre took out a 5-year lease on the building.

The church was successful and spawned other churches, including:

The new church of 1864 had a new organ constructed in 1865 by Forster and Andrews for £449 (equivalent to £38,716 in 2015). This was sold to Hyson Green United Reformed Church in 1908.

The church obtained the current organ in 1909. It had been constructed for Councillor George E. Franklin at his house, The Field, in Derby in 1903. It was by James Jepson Binns and cost about £3,500 (equivalent to £338,949 in 2015).