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Church History information for Osmaston by Derby and places above it in the hierarchy

Osmaston by Derby

  • "The church of St. James, now used only for occasional services, is an ancient edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry, south porch and an eastern turret containing one bell, and is the successor of a church or chantry of Norman origin existing here in 1127. It is chiefly Early English in style, but some portions of the Norman church still remain: the east window of Late Perpendicular date, with a trefoil light above it, one window on the north- and one on the south side of the chancel and two on the north side of the nave, are stained. In the chancel is a carved tablet of alabaster, inscribed in Latin to Sir Nicholas Wilmot kt. ob. 1682, besides several others of later dates, to the same family. There is also a mural monument of marble to the Eastwood family, with dates from 1846 to 1874. The pulpit is of stone, finely carved: the church plate includes an Elisabethan chalice, a paten of Queen Anne's time and a pewter flagon of 1629. The church was restored in 1880-1, at a cost of £644, and has 120 sittings."
    [Extract from Kelly's Directory of the County of Derby, 1912]
     
  • "The church of St. Osmund, in London road, erected in 1905 at a cost of £5,940, was constituted the parish church of Osmaston by Order in Council, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, side chapel, south and west porches and organ loft. There is a wrought iron chancel screen, above which is a rood beam. The church affords 540 sittings. The register dates from the vear 1743. The living is a Vicarage, net yearly value £110, including 62 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and held since 1902 by the Rev. Launcelot Sydney Currey M.A. of Selwyn College, Cambridge."
    [Extract from Kelly's Directory of the County of Derby, 1912]

Derbyshire

  • Search for Derbyshire Anglican Churches on The Diocese of Derby website..
     
  • Hoskyns, Edwyn - Under the Heavy Clouds. Merton Priory Press, 2005, ISBN 1-898937-63-X
     Subtitled ‘The Church of England in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, 1911-1915’, this book is an account of Edwyn Hoskins, Bishop of Southwell's parochial visitation of the diocese between 1911 and 1915.
     
  • Combes, Isobel - Anglican Churches of Derbyshire. Landmark Collector's Library, 2005, ISBN 13: 9781843061526.
     
  • Information about Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811 is available from Ann ANDREWS.
     
  • You may also find it worthwhile searching in the GENUKI Church Database. Enter the name of the place in which the church is located:

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