Derbyshire Places of Worship

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St James's Church, Edlaston
St James's Church,
Edlaston Lane, DE6 2DQ,
Edlaston, Derbyshire.

Cemeteries

This Church has (or 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 14th century, and we understand it is still open.

Edlaston is recorded in the Domesday book as "Edolveston". In 1895, Kelly's Directory described St James's Church as "a simple structure, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a square wooden turret containing 2 bells, one of which is an ancient sanctus bell, the other dating from 1670: the masonry generally seems to be of the 14th century, but the windows and the massive tie-beams of the roof are much later". Later editions of Kelly record that the stone belfry, which surrounds the bells today was built in 1900.

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Denomination

Now or formerly Church of England.

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 Church is located at OS grid reference SK1811642673. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

Information last updated on 2 Feb 2013 at 09:12.

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This Report was created 8 Dec 2024 - 01:14:05 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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