[52737] St Werburgh, Derby : Died on Christmas Day

St Werburgh, Friar Gate, Derby.

Grade ll* listed.

Memorial to John Mozley (1805-1872) & his wife Jemima Charlotte (1807-1879)..

 

The 17th-century tower and old chancel of this large church are in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust – but not the 19th-century church attached to it which was built by Sir Arthur Blomfield (1829-1899) in 1892-94.

 

A church of medieval origin, but the earliest surviving part is the tower, rebuilt in 1601 after the collapse of the medieval tower. It is in an unusual position at the south-east corner of the former nave. The remainder of the church was rebuilt in 1699 after serious flood damage, but of that period only the chancel has survived, which has a north aisle added in 1850 by Henty Isaac Stevens (1806-1873).

 

The remainder was rebuilt, with a new chancel, on a north-south axis in 1892-94 by Sir Arthur Blomfield (1829-1899). The ambitious scale of Blomfield's church was unrealistic in the long term and the church closed in 1984, when some of the windows, by Kempe and Herbert William Bryans, were moved to All Saints, Turnditch. Blomfield's church was converted to a shopping arcade in 1989-90 then, after a period of further disuse, as a Chinese restaurant, but was disused again in 2009. The tower and earlier chancel is retained as a chapel by the Churches Conservation Trust.

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