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St Mary the Virgin's Church,
Main Street,
Rosliston, 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 before 1291, and we understand it is still open.

Kelly's Directory of 1932 describes St Mary the Virgin's Church as "a building of grey sandstone, chiefly modern, erected in 1819, and consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a western tower with spire, containing 3 bells, cast 1778-9". It was originally a chapelry of Walton [on Trent], "and was undoubtedly the chapel referred to in the taxation roll of 1291".

In 1818 application was made to George III. for a brief for its repair and enlargement, and as a consequence it was rebuilt in the next year at a cost of £702. The tower and spire, however were preserved, and date from the first half of the 14th century. Against the south wall is a mural monument to Barnabas Broune (1764) and his son, the Rev. Richard Broune, rector of Walton and Rosliston (1767). There are 120 sittings. The parish records of baptisms and burials date from 1568, and of marriages from 1570. The living had been held since 1930 by the Rev. Reginald Leslie Watts, who was also vicar of Coton-in-the-Elms. The chief landowners were the Misses Milligan.

There are some delightful photographs of St Mary's in Aidan McRae Thompson's Flickr Photostream.

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 SK2433516813. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:

• St Mary the Virgin's Church, Rosliston shown on a Google Map.
• Places of Worship in Rosliston 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 Rosliston, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.

• Overview of Aidan McRae Thompson's Flickr Photostream (null) (verified 2018-10-13)

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.