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PENTRICH & ST. MATTHEW’S in 1912 The following was extracted from Kelly’s 1912 directory. |
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PENTRICH is a township and parish, 5 miles northeast from Belper, 21 South-west by south from Alfreton, 3 west from Ambergate station, about 11 miles from the Butterley station, on the Erewash Valley line of the Midland railway, which is 135 miles from London, in the Ilkeston division of the county, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, Belper union, Smalley petty sessional division, Alfreton county court district, rural deanery of Alfreton, Chesterfield archdeaconry and Southwell diocese. The village is supplied with water by means of pipes from the Dethic water works. the church of St. Matthew, standing on a gentle height, is a building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, south porch and a low western embattled tower containing five bells, two of which are ancient; the others are dated 1715 and 1869: the nave arcades are late Norman, about 1150; the circular font, excluding the base, dated 1662, is also Norman, to which style the lower part of the tower probably belongs, its wall at this point being about 4 feet in thickness: the whole building seems to have been renovated and enlarged in the Perpendicular period, about 1430: in 1859 it was plainly but carefully restored, with new pews and roofs, at the cost of William, 7th Duke of Devonshire K.G. and in 1875 the chancel was re-floored and re-arranged: the east and south windows are composed of sepulchral slabs with rudely incised crosses: there is a monument to Edmund HORNE Esq. of Butterley Hall, d.1873: in or about 1895, 1899 and 1904 the church was adorned with three wall paintings of subjects from Holy Scripture: the affords 200 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1621, and of marriages and burials rather later; it contains also records of a large number of collections by brief, and the signatures of 180 persons to the declaration of conformity to Presbyterian practices insisted on by the Parliament about 1646. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £138, with 27 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Duke of Devonshire P.C. and is at present (1912) vacant. Here is a Congregational chapel, founded in 1662, with 150 sittings. There is a United Methodist chapel here, with an endowment of £8 per year, and seating 120 persons. In the parish is a large colliery and the cotton mills of Messrs. J. TOWLSON & Co. Limited, who employ a large number of hands. the poor have £3 6s. from the Gisbourne charity, left in 1818 by the Rev. Francis GISBOURNE, some time rector of Staveley, for flannel. |
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In the village is a sun dial on a stone pedestal, in good preservation and dated 1660. The Duke of Devonshire P.C. is Lord of the Manor and chief landowner. The soil is mixed, but loam and clay predominant; subsoil, chiefly clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, roots and pasture. The area of the township is 1,230 acres of land and 26 of water; assessable value £3,332; the population in 1901 was 291 in the civil and 534 in the ecclesiastical parish. Coneygrey House is in this parish and near to it is a hill, supposed to have been a Roman station. Waingrove and Butterley Park were, by local Government Board Order, transferred to Ripley in 1886. Post & M.O. Office - Miss Ellen BURGIN, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive via Derby at 7.30am & 7pm & dispatched via Ripley at 7.40am & 6.55pm; no Sunday delivery. Swanwick, 1 mile distant is the nearest telegraph office. Public Elementary School (mixed), built about 1800 by a former Duke of Devonshire, for 135 boys, girls and infants; average attendance, 95 children; Miss Hannah DOUGLAS BOWN, mistress. PRIVATE
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St. Matthew’s Church Restoration Fund, c/o The Village Hall, Main Street, Pentrich, Derbyshire. DE5 3RE |
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