Pentrich Derbyshire
Church of St Matthew, Pentrich Derbyshire sited near a Saxon cross. However no church is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Survey but by 1154 -9 a charter confirmed the gift of a church here to the canons of Darley Abbey about the time the tower was added. Of this 12c Norman church or one which shortly after replaced it, the 5 arcades separating the aisles from the nave, parts of the west wall and south aisle and lower part of the tower remain.
In the 14c the chancel and aisles were rebuilt using some old material, and the tower heightened later in the century.
c1430 a new pointed chancel arch was built, retaining the earlier capitals and piers and a clerestory was added. The tracery of the east window suggests a date of 1420–50.
The font's Norman bowl survives (not without danger) , it now stands on a pedestal dated 1662. A Mr Cox writing in 1879, said that it was removed from church for several centuries, during which time it was used for salting beef. When returned it was much restored , so much so Pevsner was undecided it was indeed Norman.
On the exterior of the south chancel wall, near the priest's doorway, is the remains of a scratch dial www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/769J19
There are 5 bells, two of which are ancient ; the others are dated 1715 and 1869
in 1859 it was plainly but carefully restored, with new pews and roofs, funded by lord of the manor & chief landowner , the Duke of Devonshire
The village gave its name to the Pentrich Rising which started on the night of 9/10 June 1817. While much of the planning took place here, two of the three ringleaders were from South Wingfield and the other from Sutton in Ashfield; the 'revolution' itself started from Hunt's Barn in South Wingfield, and the only person killed was a servant in Wingfield Park.
The lightly armed force armed with pikes, scythes and a few guns, which had been hidden in a quarry in Wingfield Park, marched towards Nottingham expecting to be part of a national uprising to overthrow the government - the main reasons being anger and despair at the lack of work, lack of food and the apparent indifference of the authorities.
A gathering of 200 - 300 men (stockingers, quarrymen and iron workers etc), were led by Jeremiah Brandreth, an unemployed stockinger, who is said to have been the victim of a spy in the pay of the Government, Plundering a few farmhouses on the way , they had a set of demands, including the wiping out of the National Debt !
The uprising was quashed soon after it began and a sign on the church wall says "The curate hid rebels here from the goverment troops." www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/aQ5CwM - Nearly 50 of the men were tried by 4 judges at Derby lasting 10 days. A few were pardoned, some were transported - Three men were hanged including Brandreth.
The poet Shelley wrote a pamphlet in 1817 entitled "Pity the plumage, but forget the dying bird" contrasting their fate and the public mourning at the time for the heir to the throne Princess Charlotte who had died in childbirth a day earlier.
Charles Lamb also joined in writing "The Three Graves" (1820)
www.genealogy-links.co.uk/html/depositions.l.html
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Pentrich Derbyshire
Church of St Matthew, Pentrich Derbyshire sited near a Saxon cross. However no church is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Survey but by 1154 -9 a charter confirmed the gift of a church here to the canons of Darley Abbey about the time the tower was added. Of this 12c Norman church or one which shortly after replaced it, the 5 arcades separating the aisles from the nave, parts of the west wall and south aisle and lower part of the tower remain.
In the 14c the chancel and aisles were rebuilt using some old material, and the tower heightened later in the century.
c1430 a new pointed chancel arch was built, retaining the earlier capitals and piers and a clerestory was added. The tracery of the east window suggests a date of 1420–50.
The font's Norman bowl survives (not without danger) , it now stands on a pedestal dated 1662. A Mr Cox writing in 1879, said that it was removed from church for several centuries, during which time it was used for salting beef. When returned it was much restored , so much so Pevsner was undecided it was indeed Norman.
On the exterior of the south chancel wall, near the priest's doorway, is the remains of a scratch dial www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/769J19
There are 5 bells, two of which are ancient ; the others are dated 1715 and 1869
in 1859 it was plainly but carefully restored, with new pews and roofs, funded by lord of the manor & chief landowner , the Duke of Devonshire
The village gave its name to the Pentrich Rising which started on the night of 9/10 June 1817. While much of the planning took place here, two of the three ringleaders were from South Wingfield and the other from Sutton in Ashfield; the 'revolution' itself started from Hunt's Barn in South Wingfield, and the only person killed was a servant in Wingfield Park.
The lightly armed force armed with pikes, scythes and a few guns, which had been hidden in a quarry in Wingfield Park, marched towards Nottingham expecting to be part of a national uprising to overthrow the government - the main reasons being anger and despair at the lack of work, lack of food and the apparent indifference of the authorities.
A gathering of 200 - 300 men (stockingers, quarrymen and iron workers etc), were led by Jeremiah Brandreth, an unemployed stockinger, who is said to have been the victim of a spy in the pay of the Government, Plundering a few farmhouses on the way , they had a set of demands, including the wiping out of the National Debt !
The uprising was quashed soon after it began and a sign on the church wall says "The curate hid rebels here from the goverment troops." www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/aQ5CwM - Nearly 50 of the men were tried by 4 judges at Derby lasting 10 days. A few were pardoned, some were transported - Three men were hanged including Brandreth.
The poet Shelley wrote a pamphlet in 1817 entitled "Pity the plumage, but forget the dying bird" contrasting their fate and the public mourning at the time for the heir to the throne Princess Charlotte who had died in childbirth a day earlier.
Charles Lamb also joined in writing "The Three Graves" (1820)
www.genealogy-links.co.uk/html/depositions.l.html
blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/historypastandpresent/2018/11/26/n...