St Giles's Chapel (Demolished), Palterton, Scarcliffe, Derbyshire, Church History

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St Giles's Chapel (Demolished), Palterton, Scarcliffe

St Giles's Chapel (Demolished),
Main Street,
Palterton, Scarcliffe, Derbyshire.

Cemeteries

This Chapel had a graveyard.
Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.

Church History

This Place of Worship was founded in the 12th century, but we understand it was closed in 1539.

The site of this Chapel, and a Chapel Yard, can be seen on Old Maps from 1877. An account of its history may be found on Richards Bygone Times website. Briefly, both the Chapel, and St Leonard's Church in Scarcliffe were founded by Ralf de Aincourt and his wife Matilda; two of their sons were ordained priests and served the chapels. Hubert Fitzralph, Matilda's son by her first marriage, succeeded to their estates, and gave the Chapel to Darley Abbey. It was built of "stone worked from the magnesium limestone on the escarpment on which it was built", and (summarising from the above website) its appearance may have been similar to St Andrew's Chantry Chapel on Scarsdale Edge in Glapwell, of which ruins survive, and the ones built at Rowthorne and Stainsby.
In the present day, its site is occupied by a private house.

Denomination

Now or formerly Augustinian.

If more than one congregation has worshipped here, or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this will record its original dedication.

Maps

This Chapel was located at OS grid reference SK4745568208. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

St Giles's Chapel (Demolished), Palterton, Scarcliffe shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Scarcliffe shown on a Google Map.
Streetmap.co.uk (arrow on map shows the Place of Worship's location) (verified 2018-10-15)
Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13)
Bing Maps ('Bird's Eye' View) (verified 2018-10-15)
Ordnance Survey "getamap" (NB some of the 'Change Map' options may require a subscription) (verified 2018-10-15)
OpenStreetMap (Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA) (verified 2018-10-15)
A Vision of Britain Through Time - useful for Boundary Changes (verified 2018-10-15)
www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays) (verified 2018-10-15)

Resources

I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Palterton, Scarcliffe, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

A History of Palterton ~ Richards Bygone Times (null) (verified 2018-10-11)

The above links were selected and reviewed at the time I prepared the information, but please be aware their content may vary, or disappear entirely. These factors are outside my control.

Information last updated on 8 Sep 2013 at 15:34.

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This Report was created 27 Nov 2024 - 12:23:32 GMT from information held in the Derbyshire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 13 Oct 2021 at 14:33.

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