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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Breadsall, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.60 |
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| BREADSALL is a village and parish, with a
station on the Great Northern railway, 2 miles north from Derby and
145 from London, in the Southern division of the county, Appletree
hundred, Shardlow union, Derby petty sessional
division and county court district, rural deanery of Ilkeston, archdeaconry
of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The river Derwent, the Midland
railway, and the Derby and Little Eaton canal run through the parish.
The church of All Saints, a building of stone, consists of chancel,
nave, north aisle south porch, and an embattled tower at the west
end, surmounted by a lofty and massive spire, with two tiers of spire
lights, and containing 5 bells, dating from 1725 to 1786, and a clock
presented in 1887 by Henry Joseph Wood esq. of the Priory, at a cost
of £100 : there was a church here at the time of the Domesday
survey, but the most ancient part of the church now extant is the
fine south doorway, which is not earlier than about 1150: in the century
following the church was again reconstructed in the Early Pointed
style, when the massive tower was erected, the battlements being of
later date, and the octagonal spire was not reared until the beginning
of the Geometrical period (c. 1250) : to this date also may
be assigned the south porch, and the three Pointed arches of the aisle
arcade, parts of whose circular pillars seem to indicate a much earlier
origin: during the Perpendicular period the walls were raised, clerestory
windows inserted, the roofs flattened, and the east window inserted
: the chancel has three stone sedilia, and a piscina under a Pointed
arch: the font is a large octagon of 15th century work: in the north
wall of the chancel is a recess with a plainly-moulded circular arch,
constructed as a resting-place for the founder when the Norman aisle
was built: there are two inscribed monumental stones to the Revs.
Gilbert Mitchell (1758), John Clayton (1774), and Walter Fletcher
(1795), former rectors of this parish: and against the south wall
a monument to the celebrated Dr. Erasmus Darwin, "physician,
poet, and philosopher," who held the Priory estate here, and
died suddenly at Derby, 18 April, 1802, besides tablets to his wife,
three sons and two daughters: the fittings of the church include an
unusual quantity of old oak, some of the bench ends being effectively
carved, and one or two bearing shields: the chancel has a double reading
desk, bearing chained copies of Jewell's works (1609), Burnett's Reformation
(1679-81), Josephus by L'Estrange (1702), Cave's works and others
(1684-94) : the church was extensively repaired in 1830, and again
restored in 1877, when a new chancel arch was built, a large hagioscope
reopened in the north-west angle of the chancel, a portion of the
rood loft stairs exposed, and several large slabs of alabaster uncovered
beneath the pavement of the
chancel: under the flooring at the west end was found an exquisitely
carved "Pieta," or figure of the Virgin with the dead Christ
on her knees, on which some traces of colour and gilding still linger:
this was restored to its original position at the east end of the
north aisle in 1885: a memorial window was erected in the north aisle
in 1885, to Samuel Walker Cox esq. who died 30 Aug. 1879: there are
420 sittings. The register dates from the year 1573, and is in good
condition: there is however a gap from 1592 to 1601, and it is more
or less incomplete from 1629-1631 and 1636-7, besides later omissions:
the late rector made a copy of the whole of the two earliest registers,
and an index to all the entries from 1573 to 1872. The living is a
rectory, gross yearly value £700, arising from 432 acres of
glebe land, with residence, in the gift of Hugo Harpur Crewe esq.
and held since 1886 by the Rev. John Ayton Whitaker M.A. of St. John's
college, Oxford. There is a Wesleyan chapel here, and charities amounting
to over £70 yearly, left by Anne Johnson in 1696, by Anthony
Walker in 1714, and by the Rev. John Walton in 1600. The Derby Corporation
Water Works are situated in this parish, but, being close to Little
Eaton, particulars are given with that village. The present Priory
house, the residence of Henry Joseph Wood esq. J.P. a building of
late Elizabethan or Jacobean date, occupies the site of the ancient
Priory of Holy Trinity, founded here in the reign of Henry III. by
F. Dethick for friars of the Augustinian order ; of the buildings
nothing now remains above ground save a few loose fragments, but more
numerous evidences still exist in the basement of the modern house.
Near the lodge gate is a small chapel, erected in 1836, and served
occasionally by the rectors of Breadsall and Morley. Hugo Harpur Crewe
esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is various
; subsoil, clay, The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area
is 2,300 acres ; rateable value, £10,497 ; the population in
1881 was 530. Parish Clerk, Frederick Thomas Endsor POST OFFICE.-James Hollingworth, receiver. Letters arrive from Derby at 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.45 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Little Eaton National School (mixed), erected, with master's residence, in 1837, at the cost of the late Sir George Crewe bart. for 100 boys & girls & 20 infants; average attendance, 60 boys & girls & 20 infants ; the school is endowed with £10 yearly by the Rev. John Clayton, formerly rector of this parish; Charles Taylor, master Railway Station, George Winstanley, station master Bateman Frederick Osborne FitzHerbert J.P. Breadsall mount Cadman Joseph, The Cedars Cox Frank Walter, Priory Flats Whitaker Rev. John Ayton M.A. Vicarage Wood Henry Joseph J.P. Priory Woodforde Bedon Woodforde, Breadsall lodge COMMERCIAL. Bailey Richard, farmer, Glebe farm Bailey Samuel, farmer Bailey Thomas, farmer Brassington William, farmer, Allestree ford farm Chambers Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Cook Thomas, farm bailiff to Henry Joseph Wood esq. J.P. Priory farm Cowley Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Creasley Edward Ernest, Windmill P.H Edge William, Lodge farm Endsor Frederick Thos. wheelwright Endsor George, farmer Garratt William, baker & shopkeeper Heathcote Joseph, market gardener Hollingworth Thomas, farmer Hollingworth James, farmer & post office, Old hall Merry John, farmer Porter John, farmer Porter John, nursery & seedsman The Hollies Selby John, beer retailer Vale Edward, farmer Walker John, blacksmith Walker Eliza (Mrs.), farmer Winstanley George, station master Great Northern Railway station [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation are as they appear in the Directory.]
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More on site information about Breadsall and the surrounding area  Derbyshire's Parishes, 1811. Erasmus Darwin was one of Derby's "Eminent Men".Some of his poems can be found on Matlock & Matlock Bath: Inspiration of PoetsThe Gentleman's Magazine Library - Derbyshire to DorsetWolley Manuscripts, Derbyshire for more information about Derbyshire
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