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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Stanton by Bridge, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.305 |
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STANTON-BY-BRIDGE is a parish overlooking the Trent valley,
6 miles south-South-east from Derby and 2 north-west from Melbourne
station on the Derby and Ashby-de-la-Zouch branch of the Midland railway,
in the Southern division of the county, Repton and Gresley hundred,
Repton petty sessional division, Shardlow union,
Derby county court district, rural deanery of Melbourne, archdeaconry
of Derby and diocese of Southwell. Works are now (1890) in progress
here for obtaining a supply of water for Long Eaton, Melbourne and
Castle Donington. The church of St. Michael is a building of stone,
consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a small
turret on the western gable containing 3 bells of modern date ; the
original church was erected in the 19th [sic] century, and
rebuilt about 1275, when the Early English style was beginning to
give way to the Decorated, the body of the church seeming to have
been rebuilt some time later, the arcade of the aisle, with its windows,
being of the Decorated period : at the east end of this aisle is a
piscina : several fragments of incised slabs of the 12th century,
a cross and a coped tombstone were discovered during a recent restoration
: against the south chancel wall is an alabaster slab, with the incised
figures of a man in plate armour and a lady, being the upper part
of an altar tomb formerly in the nave ; it has a marginal inscription
to William Sacheverell esq. ob. 5 September, 1558, and Mary
(Lowe) his wife: against the same wall is found the alabaster monument,
also with an incised figure, of Katherine, wife of Richard Francis
esq. (1530): the chancel was restored in 1866: the font is an octagonal
work of the 14th century : in the north-wall of the aisle, beneath
a plain arch, is the stone effigy of an ecclesiastic, probably of
the 14th century : the east and west windows are stained and there
is a handsome reredos erected in 1879 by the Rev. Edward Wright Whittaker,
in memory of his father, the late rector: there are 200 sittings.
The register of baptisms dates from the year 1664 ; marriages, 1679;
and burials, 1676: there is an old book of parish accounts, from 1690,
containing two terriers of the rectory, 1698 and 1766, and a list
of collections by Brief from 1690 to 1727, including the churches
of Ilkeston and Wirksworth. The living is a rectory, annexed to that
of Swarkestone, joint gross yearly value £530, derived from
321 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Sir Vauncey Harpur
Crewe bart. and held since 1888 by the Rev. Charles Henry Carlisle.
Clarke's charity of £23 yearly is for apprenticing boys and
for educational purposes. Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe bart. D. L., J.
P. of Calke, and Col. Sir Francis Burdett bart. J. P. of Foremark,
are joint lords of the manor and principal landowners. The chief crops
are wheat, barley and oats. The acreage is 1,160 ; rateable value,
£1,986; the population in 1881 was 157. Parish Clerk, William Girdleston. POST OFFICE.-William Bird, receiver. Letters received through Derby, arrive at 6 a.m. ; dispatched at 7 p.m. ; sunday, arrive 6 a.m. ; dispatched, 7 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Melbourne Church School (mixed), erected in 1862, for 60 children ; average attendance, 40 ; Miss Caroline Holoran, mistress CARRIER.-Thomas Nicklinson, to Melbourne & Derby, daily, except. on thurs Carlisle Rev. Charles Hy. The Rectory Allen William, farmer Bird George, farmer Handley Thomas Benjamin, farmer Higgins John, market gardener Poyser Samuel, farmer Roberts Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Smith Thomas, blacksmith Snow John, tailor Taylor William, market gardener Woodward William, farmer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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