Talk:Durham Towns and parishes D

Darlington

In 1975, Darlington's Union Street Congregational Church united with St.George's Presbyterian Church to become Northgate United Reformed Church, located in the former Presbyterian church building. The former Congregationalist church in Union Street was closed at the time of union.

Springfield Church Centre Robert Stephenson & Company relocated their locomotive works from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Darlington in 1901 and brought 1000 workers with them. Initially the Company provided Religious Education for their workers but this duty was handed over to St George’s Church in 1903. The Elders decided to establish a Mission Church and approached Robert Stephenson & Company for assistance.

The Company donated the land in Hercules Street and offered a canteen building from their factory in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The building was dismantled and reassembled on its present site ‘piece by piece’ and opened on the 20th January 1907.