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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Mackworth, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.250 |
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MACKWORTH is a parish comprising the townships of MACKWORTH
and MARKEATON, on the road from Derby to Ashborne, 2 miles west-north-west
from Derby and 128 from London, in the Southern division of the county,
hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, Belper union, Derby petty sessional
division and county court district, rural deanery of Duffield, archdeaconry
of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church of All Saints is a building
of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch with parvise, aisles,
vestry, organ chamber and a fine battlemented tower, surmounted by
a short octagonal spire and containing a clock, put in at a cost of
£135 in 1872, and 3 bells, respectively dated 1662, 1612 and
1616: the present nave, with the tower and spire, date almost exclusively
from the end of the Decorated period (1360), the chancel being about
fifty years earlier : the nave is separated from the aisles by three
arches on each side supported on octagonal piers and responds, and
opens into the chancel through an arch without corbels or capitals,
a large pointed doorway at the west end leading into the tower: of
the aisle windows, some are Decorated, others Perpendicular, the east
window of the chancel, renewed in 1851, being a beautiful example
of Early Decorated tracery: the tower is pierced on the west and south
sides with cross loop-holes, a feature of rare occurrence in ecclesiastical
architecture: the chancel has three ascending sedilia, and beyond
these a piscina, all under trefoiled arches : in the north aisle are
two richly carved Perpendicular niches of unequal height: against
the north wall is a curious arched recess, and above it a projecting
canopy, known as the "Abbot's seat," and probably the official
seat or the abbots of Darley, to whom this church was appropriated
: in the south aisle is an arched sepulchral recess, with a continuous
flowered moulding, and beneath it an alabaster slab, with a sculptured
head of a priest, an incised cross and a mutilated inscription, believed
to be the tomb of Thomas Touchet, rector here from 1381 to 1409 :
in the south aisle is a raised tomb of alabaster to Edward Mundy esq.
(1607), and Jane his wife (1611), with his effigy in a long gown,
and ruffs round the neck and wrists: the east window of the south
aisle displays in stained glass the various impalements of arms of
the Mundys of Markeaton, from the time of Edward I. : the parish chest
dates from 1640 : the church was thoroughly restored in 1851 : the
font, of Caen stone, was presented in 1852: a new pulpit of alabaster
and marble, elaborately designed and inlaid with marbles, in the Florentine
style, by Mrs. F. N. Mundy, in 1876, and the reredos
by Mrs. Wm. Mundy, in memory of her husband, in 1878 : the stained
east window is a memorial to F. N. Clarke Mundy esq. and a canopy
over the vestry door, in richly carved alabaster, was erected in 1889
in memory of Mrs. Wm. Mundy : there are 300 sittings. The register
dates from the year 1611, is in good condition, and remarkably well
written. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £170, including
15 acres of glebe, with residence (rebuilt in 1880, at a cost of about
£2,000), in the gift of Francis Noel Mundy esq. D.L. who is
also the lay impropriator, and held since 1887 by the Rev. Glencairn
Alexander Shaw M.A. of St. John's College, Oxford. Crowshaw's charity
of £28 yearly is for bread; other charities, of £36 yearly
value, are distributed in money. In the village are the remains of
a fine old gateway, formerly an entrance to Mackworth Castle. Francis
Noel Mundy esq. D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor and principal landowner.
The soil is loamy; sub-soil, various. The chief crops are oats, wheat,
barley and pasture. The area is-Mackworth, 1,383 acres; Markeaton,
2,034 acres ; rateable value of Mackworth, £2,630 and of Markeaton,
£5,436; the population in 1881 was 253 in the township of Mackworth,
and 1,011 in the parish. Markeaton is a township in the parish of Mackworth. Markeaton Hall, a large brick mansion with a park of 100 acres in front, is the seat of Francis Noel Mundy esq. D.L., J.P. (lord of the manor), and was erected in 1755: in the park is a small lake 4½ acres. Thornhill, the seat of Miss Isabel Mosley, commands a fine view of Derby, from which it is distant one mile west-by-south. The population in 1881 was 758, including 508 officers and inmates of the Derby workhouse and borough asylum. BOWBRIDGE and WHEAT HILL are places in the parish, about 1 mile west-north-west. Parish Clerk, Arthur Roome. POST & M. O. O., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- Arthur Roome, postmaster. Letters received from Derby at 4.20 a.m.; dispatched at 8.15 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Mickleover railway station SCHOOLS :- Parochial (mixed), Mackworth, erected in 1868, for 100 children; average attendance, 50, & supported by Francis Noel Mundy esq. ; George Dutton, master; Mrs. Elizabeth Dutton, mistress Girls', Markeaton, erected for 50 girls; average attendance, 25; attached is a residence for the teachers; Mrs. Elizabeth Dutton, mistress Mackworth. Edwards Henry Vincent Greaves Frederick Wm. Mackworth ho Shaw Rev. Glencairn Alexander M.A. Vicarage Thomson Lieut.-Gen. James Sinclair J.P. Bowbridge COMMERCIAL. Bond William, farmer & wheelwright Goodall William, farmer Hanson John & Son, farmers Hanson Samuel, farmer Hanson Thomas, farmer Johnson Mark, farmer Johnson Lamech, nursery & seedsman Johnson Thomas, farmer Kelly Patrick, farmer Knowles Thomas, farmer, Wheat hill Maddocks Richard, farmer Morley John, farmer, Castle farm Morley Joseph, Mundy Arms P.H. farmer & cattle dealer Smith Ellen (Mrs.), farmer Smith George, farmer Spalton John, farmer Spalton Joseph, farmer Tomlisson George, farmer Markeaton. Mosley Miss, Thornhill Mundy Francis Noel D.L., J.P. Markeaton hall Abel Thomas, farmer Abel William, farmer Brickwood Thomas, farmer, Thornhill Bryer George, farmer, The Park Bryer William, farmer Byard William, farmer, Humbleton Prince Thomas, farmer, Vickerwood Turnbull William, land steward to Francis Noel Mundy esq. D.L., J.P Whitehurst John, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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