(Village Hall CP)Derbyshire Churches and Chapels
Boylestone St John The Baptist SK183357
The church is mostly of the C14. On the inner north wall of the chancel is a finely moulded recess of this period. Also in the chancel, below the C15 east window, is a carved reredos of the Last Supper. The SW tower, with pyramidal roof and concave sides, dates from 1844.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 9.30 (3rd & 4th), 6.45 (1st & 2nd : 3.00 in winter)
CONTACT: Tel: (01335) 330550 (Mr Pelly) or (01283) 585296 (Rector)
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Church Broughton St Michael, Church Street (Grade I) SK205337
Visibly the church is mostly of the C14 though its Norman origins are apparent in a scalloped capital in the north aisle and the finely carved font. There are connections with the family of W H Auden, whose uncle and cousin were both Vicars of the parish; the poet himself is known to have spent some holidays here.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 8.00 & 10.00 (1st), 9.30 (2nd, 3rd & 4th)
CONTACT: Tel: (01283) 585350 (Mr & Mrs Crawford)
CHURCH OPEN FOR VILLAGE MAY FESTIVAL: MAY DAY BH
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Dalbury All Saints, The Lane SK264344
A remote little church, architecturally plain but nevertheless full of interest. Basically it is a simple chapel, probably of the C13, but enlarged (north aisle) under the incumbency of The Revd Charles Cotton, Rector from 1831 to 1857. Mr Cotton was a skilled wood carver and much of the woodwork in the church is clearly by him, including probably the old organ casework now at the west end. The present functioning organ (in the chancel) is an early C19 chamber instrument by Flight & Robson. A recently acquired treasure is the c1200 stained glass figure of St Michael - probably the oldest glass in Derbyshire. The church is located on the footpath known as "Three Churches Walk" (Dalbury-Trusley-Sutton).
SUNDAY SERVICE: 11.00 (3rd only), 3.00 (1st only)
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY
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Doveridge St Cuthbert, Church Lane (Grade I)
SK114341
The church is right on the western edge of the village, overlooking the Dove and across into Staffordshire. The approach through the churchyard is under a "tunnel" formed by the branches of an ancient yew, said to be over 1,000 years old. The most important feature of the church is its fine, long, early C13 chancel still with its original lancet windows; it is of the same proportions as the nave and there is no dividing arch between the two. The aisles were added in the C14. The C20 has seen the addition of an octagonal meeting room which is entered via the north porch.
SUNDAY SERVICES:
1st Sunday 10.30 am United Service for the Benefice (Venue changes monthly)
2nd Sunday 8.00 am Holy Communion
9.30 am SOAP (Small Ones and Parents)
10.30 am Morning Worship
3rd Sunday 10.30 am Parish Communion
4th Sunday 10.30 am Living Worship (All Age Worship)
CHURCH OPEN: Daily from 10 am till 4 pm in winter and 10 am till 6 pm in summer.
CONTACT: Tel: 01889 565815 and 01889 565123 (Churchwardens)
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Egginton St Wilfrid (Grade I)
SK268279
The church, on a Norman site, dates mainly from the early 1300's, with only the tower of the later Perpendicular period. Some early C14 glass still remains in the east window. Various memorials and hatchments are to be seen of the local Every and Moseley families. On display in a glass case are a flute and clarinet used by the early C19 church band. Outside, on the south wall of the chancel, there is a mediaeval scratch dial.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 9.30, 3.00
KEY AVAILABLE: from St Wilfrid's House, next to church gates, 9.00-12.00, 2.30-4.00
CONTACT: Tel: (01283) 733025 (Churchwarden) or (01283) 732349 (Incumbent)
Publication: J B Henderson, The Story of Egginton and its Church St Wilfrid's
Etwall St Helen (Grade I) SK269320
This church has a lot to offer the visitor. It is well set off, the churchyard being raised above the level of the nearby main road. To the north are the C16 John Port almshouses (known as Etwall Hospital) with their C18 Robert Bakewell wrought iron gates leading to the churchyard. The external appearance of the church is late Perpendicular, the large windows on the south side of the nave probably being Gothic survival of the C17 or even C18. Inside, however, we encounter a fine C12 Norman north arcade, while the north chancel wall has a C13 built-in stone lectern (or Gospel Shelf). Also in the chancel is the canopied tomb (1541) of Sir John Port (not only the founder of the Hospital but also of Repton School). Perhaps the most fascinating feature is the Port Chapel at the east end of the north aisle. It now contains the superb ensemble of carved pews and desk (1635) which until 1816 were at the west end of the north aisle and were used for daily prayers by the Master of the Hospital and almsmen.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 11.00, 6.30
CHURCH OPEN: 1ST SAT 1.00-4.00 (APRIL TO OCTOBER); ALSO 2ND SAT SEPTEMBER ALL DAY
OPEN FOR WELL DRESSING: 3RD SAT MAY
CONTACT: Tel: (01283) 732349 (Incumbent) or (01283) 733344 (Churchwarden)
Publication: J B Henderson. Know Your Parish Church St Helen's, Etwall
Church built in 1887.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 9.30
CONTACT: Tel: (01283) 521053 (Incumbent) or All Saints Vicarage, 2A Eaton Close, Hatton, Derby DE65 5ED
Longford St Chad, Longford Hall Park (Grade I) SK215383
The church is light and spacious - a quality due in considerable part to the height of the nave and the general absence of stained glass. Some arcading and pillars survive from the Norman church, but most of what you see is C14 and C15. The Longford family were Lords of the Manor until C16 and their numerous monuments, cleaned and conserved in 1984, have now been moved from the south to the north aisle. The family were succeeded as owners of the estate by the Cokes whose most celebrated member was the agriculturist, Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester ("Coke of Holkham"), to whom there is a marble bust within a decorated Gothic canopy (1842). The organ, with its curiously oriental looking casework, is a particularly fine instrument by Abbott (1874) in the style of the German organ builder, Schulze. Longford Hall (to the south of the churchyard) is not normally accessible to the public though the gardens are usually open on one Sunday in July.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 9.30 (4th), 10.00 (3rd), 11.00 (1st), 6.30 (2nd)
CHURCH OPEN: WEEKENDS (SUMMER)
CONTACT: Tel: (01335) 330446 (Mr Lenderyou) or (01335) 330472 (Mr Hill)
or (01283) 585296 (Rector)
(in old stable yard north of church)
"Estate Churches" Trail
Long Lane Christ Church SK253380
An attractive brick Gothic church of 1859 - quite simple, with aisleless nave and chancel. A saddleback tower and vestry were added in 1874 on the north side of the chancel.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 8.30 (2nd), 11.00 (4th), 7.00 (1st & 3rd)
CONTACT: (01335) 824414 (Mr Jackson) or (01283) 585296 (Rector)
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Marston Montgomery St Giles SK135379
The village takes its name from the Montgomery family who owned land in this neighbourhood. Its small church has a Norman nave and chancel while the north aisle was added in the early C13. There is no tower, but the west gable of the nave is surmounted by a very pretty, pyramidal bellcote (by St Aubyn) dating from 1877. The small Conacher organ was installed in 1885; a wall plaque tells us that Evelyn Wood played this instrument for seventy years and died in 1997 at the age of 101.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 8.30 (1st), 11.00 (2nd & 4th), 5.45 (3rd), united on 5th in rotation with 3 other parishes.
CONTACT: Tel: (01335) 324516 (Mrs Whitfield)
OPEN FOR WELL DRESSING: 2ND SUN JUNE
(village hall)
Marston-on-Dove St Mary, Marston Lane (Grade I) SK233296
This church possesses many curiosities, architectural and otherwise, and well deserves its Grade I listing. It stands within a large, exposed churchyard in a remote part of the Dove flood-plain. At one time it stood adjacent to a loop of the river, but this was cut off by the construction of the railway to the south of the church. The most striking thing is the large nave roof rising from a 2-storeyed north wall, the upper windows of which date (according to Pevsner) from a C15 alteration in which the north aisle must have been incorporated into a wider nave (or was it, as at Denby, an enlargement in the early C19 to accommodate a north gallery?). Once inside the openness and lightness of the nave is very striking as is also the exceptionally wide C13 chancel. The C14 south aisle, with its elegant arcade, is of more orthodox proportions. Two highly valued possessions are the oldest bell in Derbyshire (1366) and the earliest surviving organ case in the county (late C17/early C18, originally in Sudbury Hall).
SUNDAY SERVICE: 11.00 ( + 9.30 on 2nd & 5th)
CONTACT: Tel: (01283) 733433 (Vicar) or e-mail: andy@marstonchurch.idps.co.uk
Radbourne St Andrew, Church Lane (Grade I) SK286360
The church stands in the grounds of Radbourne Hall (which is not visitable, though there is a pleasant footpath across the Park with some good views). Most of the present building is of C14 and C15 - consisting of chancel and nave plus a north aisle at the west end of which is the tower. Late mediaeval carved benches came from Dale Abbey (near Ilkeston) following the Dissolution. There are several C15 monuments to members of the de la Pole family whose descendants still live in the Hall, together with a large Baroque wall-monument by Grinling Gibbons (1683) to German Pole. The carved Gothic organ case in the chancel houses an instrument by Conacher (1889).
SUNDAY SERVICE: 9.30 (4th - winter only), 11.00 (2nd), 6.30 (4th - summer only)
CHURCH OPEN: WEEKENDS (SUMMER)
CONTACT: Tel: (01332) 824237 (Mrs Smith) or (01283) 585296 (Rector)
(street - limited) Bakewell Trail
"Estate
Churches" Trail
Scropton St Paul, Scropton Road SK193302
This Victorian church dates from 1856, replacing an earlier one; its most distinguishing external feature is the pyramid roof of the west tower. Of particular interest internally are the twelve copper panels set in the altar and reredos with C18 paintings showing statues of the Apostles in their niches (inspired by those in St John Lateran, Rome); the c1510 incised tomb slab of Nicholas Agard and his two wives is also worth noting.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 9.30 (1st & 3rd), 6.30 (2nd, 4th & 5th)
CONTACT: Tel: (01283) 812963 or (01283) 585383 (Churchwardens)
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Somersal Herbert St Peter SK136352
Though of earlier origin and with an unusual former dedication to St Blaise, the present church dates from 1874, the tower being added in 1912. Survivors from the earlier building include the 18th century brick porch with its attractive rusticated stone quoins, together with a Norman font decorated with characteristic intersecting arches.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 10.00
KEY AVAILABLE: from Church Cottage, opposite
Tel: (01283) 585593 or (01288) 585358 (Churchwardens)
(on road)
In spite of a rather heavy restoration during 1874-5 there is much of interest in this church - not least its superb location adjacent to the 17th century Sudbury Hall (NT property), through whose grounds there is public access to the churchyard. The glass in the east window was given by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1850. There are numerous monuments to the Vernon family from the Hall next door, the earliest being c1300, the rest dating from the 17th century to the 19th. Also worthy of note is the fine 3-manual Nicholson & Lord organ, built c1875 but including pipes from an earlier instrument.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 11.15 (10.00 on 4th)
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY
(NT car park available)
"Estate Churches" Trail
Sutton-On-The-Hill St Michael, Church Road
SK237342
Of the C14 church the tower (with its tall 1841 spire), north aisle arcade and part of the chancel remain. The general impression, however, is of the 1863 rebuilding - and very impressive it is too on its prominent rural hill site. When the C17 monument on the north wall of the chancel was dismantled for conservation a bricked up C14 window was discovered containing armorial glass of c1330. A statue of St Michael came from the redundant Derby church of the same name. The church is linked to Dalbury and Trusley by "The Three Churches Walk".
SUNDAY SERVICE: 11.00
CONTACT: Tel: (01283) 733433 (Mrs Martindale) or (01283) 732603 (Mrs Hartley) or (01283) 585296 (Rector)
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The working village of Trusley, centred on its church, was designated a Conservation Area in 1968 - one of the earliest in Derbyshire. The church, replacing an earlier one, is a small, aisleless, red brick building of 1713 in the style of Wren. Features include a fine Baroque south porch (which, it is suggested, may have come from elsewhere) and an interior still retaining its original box pews, three-decker pulpit, font and other furnishings - including the largest collection of funeral hatchments in the county. The church also possesses a "Maiden's Garland" (or virgin's funeral crown). It is connected to Sutton-on-the-Hill and Dalbury by "The Three Churches Walk".
SUNDAY SERVICE: 11.00 (1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th), 6.45 (4th)
CHURCH OPEN: WEEKENDS (SUMMER)
CONTACT: Tel: (01283) 732760) (Mr Goodall) or (01283) 585296 (Rector)
Publication: D Buckley, The Parish Church of All Saints, Trusley
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