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| Sandiacre, Derbyshire |
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| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - pp.294-5 |
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SANDIACRE is a parish, large village, on the borders of Nottinghamshire,
with a station on the Erewash Valley branch of the Midland railway,
135 miles from London, 9 east from Derby, 6 west-by-south from Nottingham,
in the Ilkeston division of the county, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch,
Shardlow union, Smalley petty sessional
division, Derby county court district, rural deanery of Ilkeston,
archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The Erewash canal
runs close to this village, as does also the Derby and Nottingham
road, to the south of which the Derby canal forms its junction with
the Erewash. Water works and a pumping station are now (1891) about
to be erected. The church of St. Giles is a building of stone, consisting
of chancel, clerestoried nave, south porch and a western tower with
a low spire, containing 6 bells hung in 1881, the 3 17th century bells
being removed; the lower part of the tower seems to be of Norman date,
circa 1160, but has long narrow lancet windows of the Early English
period in the north and south walls; from the roof upwards, including
the broach spire, the building is Decorated work of about 1300 : to
the Norman period also belong the very rich chancel arch, two round
headed windows in the nave, and the inner door of the south porch:
the great attraction of this church is its remarkably fine and spacious
chancel, a noble example of the late Decorated period, and the work
of Roger de Norbury, Bishop of Lichfield from 1322-59, and instituted
to this prebend in 1342; it has three large windows on each side,
with varied tracery of elegant design, and between these, buttresses,
the upper portions of which are panelled and traceried, rising into
elaborately-crocketed pinnacles : above the windows runs a moulded
parapet with quatrefoils,
and near the west window on the south side is a priest's doorway;
within, on this side, are three remarkably fine sedilia and a piscina,
under four triangular-headed and finialed canopies, divided by buttresses
terminating in pinnacles, and filled in the beads with graceful tracery
: the nave walls were raised several feet in the Perpendicular period,
and three clerestory windows inserted on each side: the font is Late
Decorated : on the chancel floor is a very remarkable incised gravestone,
slightly raised, and exhibiting a tall donated cross, supported by
nondescript animals, one on each side, and dating probably from the
12th century : in the churchyard is a small stone coffin, 40 inches
long: some of the tracery of the wood screen may now be seen worked
up in the reading desk: on the chancel floor are also several inscribed
slabs to Thomas Charlton and Catherine his wife, with arms (1631)
; Michael Charlton, son of the foregoing, fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge, and Catherine his wife (1589-1614) ; John Charlton (1696)
and Anne his wife (1695), with others of this family from 1573 to
1687 ; these memorials were renovated by Thomas Broughton Charlton,
in 1855; in the nave is a floor slab to John, son of Willoughby Manley,
gent. : the stained east window was erected in 1887 in memory of Joseph
Stevens, d. 1875, by his sister Matilda : the nave was reseated
in 1855 and the chancel restored in 1864, and in 1883 the whole church
was restored, when the chancel and passages were laid with Minton
tiles at a cost of £100 : there are 330 sittings. The register
of baptisms dates from the year 1571, of marriages from 1581 and of
burials from 1570. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £300,
including 34 acres of glebe let for £49, with residence, in
the gift of
the Bishop of Southwell, and held since 1879 by the Rev. Daniel Smith,
of St. Bees. There was here an ancient chapel, dedicated to St. Sytha
or Osyth, a Mercian princess, valued in 27 Hen. VIII. at 11s. There
are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist and Free Methodist chapels. The
principal landowners are the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and R.
P. Stevens esq. of Risley, besides some smaller owners. The soil is
loam and clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and
beans. The area is 1,070 acres or land and 20 of water; rateable value,
£9,621; the population in 1881 was 1,630. POST, M. O. & T. O. S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. -John Dale, receiver. Letters received from Nottingham at 7.45 a.m. & 4.45 p.m. ; dispatched at 9.20 a.m. 5.5, 8 & 9.30 p.m WALL LETTER BOX at railway station cleared at 8.30 p.m. week days only A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1876; clerk to the board & attendance officer, Thomas Lindsey Board School (mixed), erected in 1878, at a cost of £3,000, for 142 boys & girls & 124 infants; average attendance, 159 boys & girls & 124 infants ; Alfred Large, master ; Miss Amelia Buckley Smith, mistress Railway Station, Samuel Hawkins Orchard, station master CARRIERS.-Benjamin Stevens & Arthur Speed, to Nottingham, daily PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bland Edward M.D Creswell Samuel, Derby road Doar Abraham Charles Doar William Hitchin Harry, Derby road Lakin James Rossell George, Pear Tree house Bankey William Henry Sheldon Mrs. Congleton house Smedley William, Church hill Smith Rev. Daniel, Vicarage Stevens Miss Street Mrs COMMERCIAL. Bailey William, builder Barber Frederick Newton, Plough P.H Barker Abraham, shopkeeper Barlow James, butcher Barratt Thomas, coal merchant Bastable George, builder Baxters Limited, engineers Belfit William Henry, draper Birkitt George, iron founder Bland Edward M.D. surgeon Bonsall & Son, plumbers Booth John, shopkeeper Botham Robert, shopkeeper Bowmer Joseph, shopkeeper Breedon Isaac, butcher Brown William, greengrocer Bryan Joseph Watson & Arthur Wilfred, lace manufacturers Bullock John, painter Burrows William, news agent Buxton Robert, smith Castledine James, shopkeeper Chapman Frederick, chemist Chamberlain & Jackson, lace manufrs. Springfield mills Cheney James, house agent Clarke Charles Henry & Alfred Harriman, lace manufacturers Cockayne Arthur, grocer Cockayne Thomas, farmer Cole Thomas, shopkeeper Co-operative Stores (Hy. Sheard, man) Corbett Joseph, agent to the Canal Co Dale John, shopkeeper, Post office Dawson Samuel, cool dealer Eastwood Edwd. railway wagon builder Evans Jas. & Co. charcoal & blacking mills Fletcher George, boat owner & farmer Foulkes William, farmer Frost Charles, nurseryman Gough Herbert, grocer Hardy Oliver, lace manufacturer, Springfield mills Hooley T. Lim. (Percy B. Cooper, see.), lace manufactrs. Springfield mills Hopkins John, fishmonger Hubbert Herbert, grocer Hufton Hannah Eleanor (Mrs.), shopkpr Jackson William, lace manufacturer, see Chamberlain & Jackson Johnson Thomas Webb, draper Latham Thos. Wm. architect & surveyor Looming Arthur, White Lion P.H Lindsey Thos. clerk & attendance officer to the school board, rate & tax collectr Longmire Henry & Edwin, lce mannfrs. Springfield mills Marshall William, blacksmith Marshall William, farmer, Church farm Moody George, farmer Moore Francis (Mrs.), shopkeeper Oldershaw Thomas, bricklayer Peach Charles, butcher Peefit William Henry, draper Pratt Hurst & Co. lace manufacturers, Springfield mills Richardson John Gadd (exors. of), lace manufacturer, Springfield mills Rossell Geo. M.R.C.V.S. veterinary surgeon Russell Eliza Ann (Mrs.), grocer Salisbury James, tailor Sandiacre Gas Co. Lim. (Percy B. Cooper, sec) Sankey William Henry, mining engineer Sewell Thomas, lace manufacturer, Springfield mills Shaw William, farmer Shaw William, jun. farmer Smedley & Sons, lace manufacturers Smith Samuel, boot maker Smith Thomas, Bell inn Speed Arthur, carrier Stevens Benjamin, coal mer. & farmer Stevens Benjamin, carrier Stevens William, pork butcher Sutton Jas. lace manfr. Springfield mls Taylor John. maltster Taylor Reuben, watch maker Walker John Benjamin, lace manufr Wells Brothers, engineers Whitaker Thomas, harness maker Winrow Hannah Mary (Mrs.), grocer Winslow William John, Red Lion P.H Wittering & Co. boot makers Woodward Thomas, coal & timber merchant, Station yard Wolliscroft Charles, draper Wragg Arthur, shopkeeper Wright Charles, beer retailer [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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