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Church History information for Derby, St. Werburgh and places above it in the hierarchy

Derby, St. Werburgh

  • The church is at Friar Gate in Derby city.
     
  • The church is thought to be from the 15th century.
     
  • The church was built in the Classic Style, but had Tuscan columns.
     
  • The church tower was rebuilt in 1601–08.
     
  • The church itself was rebuilt in 1893-94.
     
  • Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Werburgh's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.
     
  • Jerry EVANS also has a photograph of St. Werburgh's Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2008.
     
  • This church was declared redundant in 1990, and the body of the church was converted to commercial use.
     
  • This church is currently preserved by Volunteers with the Churches Conservation Trust and open every Saturday from 10:30am for a few hours.
     
  • Saint Werburgh was the daughter of King Wulfhere and Queen Ermenhilda of Mercia, born around 650. Whilst it was quite usual for the Kings' daughters of the age to become nuns, it was against her father's wishes for her to marry that she was finally allowed to enter Ely Abbey. In due course, she became its Abbess, and finally senior Abbess of all Mercia. She died on 3rd February in A.D. 700, and this day is now celebrated in the Church Calendar as her Feast Day.
     
  • There are understood to be 17 churches dedicated to her in England, two of which are in Derbyshire, at Blackwell by Alfreton, and Spondon. There are others in Dublin, Western Australia, in a village in Zimbabwe and Lady chapels in Chester and Lichfield Cathedrals.
     
  • Christ Church is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1849 from the civil parish of St. Werburgh; the church, standing at the corner of Normanton road was built in 1839-40.
     
  • The Derby City Church on Curzon Street was built as a Temperance Hall circa 1854, It was a dance hall in the 1950s but has been acquired by the Elim Pentacostal Church as a place of worship. The building is listed with British heritage as Grade II.
     
  • David BEVIS has a photograph of Derby City Church on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2012.

Derby

  • The Cathedral of All Saints (known as Derby Cathedral), is a cathedral church and it is the seat of the Bishop of Derby.
     
  • All Saints was founded about 943 by King Edmund I. The current Cathedral dates from the 14th century.
     
  • The cathedral was rebuilt in 1725.
     
  • The cathedral was enlarged in 1972.
     
  • Malcolm NEAL has a photograph of the street leading to cathedral on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2003.
     
  • Saint Andrew's church opened in 1864 and closed in 1969 and was later demolished.
     
  • Saint Andrew's was designed by Sir George Gilbert SCOTT, and was known as the "Railwaymen's Church".
     
  • Derby also has:
     

St. Alkmund

St. Michael

St. Peter

St. Werburgh

  • Saint John the Evangelist parish was founded in March, 1847 from the civil parishes of All Saints, St. Alkmund, and St. Werburgh:
     
  • Saint John the Evangelist church was erected on Bridge Street at the corner of Mill Street in 1828: Additions were made in 1871.
     
  • That church was restored in 1891.
     
  • Saint John the Evangelist church seats about 1,110:
     

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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