Elvaston St. Bartholomew
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Derby, by "Elizabeth Wilcocks, sometyme servant unto the right worshipful Sir John Stanhope, of Elvaston," dated 1648. It is a facsimile of the plate already given in our account of S. Peter's Church.
When Mr. Reynolds visited this church, August 23rd, 1773, he noticed a large paver of alabaster at the entrance to the chantry in the north aisle, and several smaller ones; but the inscriptions were all illegible. In the south chancel window was the letter "T" on a lozenge. Of the basement of the tower he then wrote:— "The Ringers stand to ring upon a chamber floor, and upon the ground floor under it is much dirt and rubbish and fragments of broken Images and other ornaments of Alabaster, said to be the reliques of the 1st monument to Sir John Stanhope Knt. before mentd, which being gone to decay, the present one was erected in 1731, as the inscription testifies." *
The registers begin with the year 1662, and are fairly perfect from that date downwards. They do not contain any entries of special interest.
*Add. MSS., 6,071, ff. 50-55.
This concludes the transcript of Elvaston St. Bartholomew. The church appears to have always been a parish church in its own right. All Saints, Ockbrook was a chapelry to Elvaston until the early Reformation period.
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12 March, 2004