Repton and its neighbourhood : $b a descriptive guide of the archæology, &c. of the districtHipkins, F. C. (Frederick Charles)
History
Repton and its neighbourhood : $b a descriptive guide of the archæology, &c. of the district
Hipkins, F. C. (Frederick Charles)
Repton (England) -- Description and travel; Repton (England) -- History
_Foremark_, or Fornewerke, as it was called in Domesday Book, when it
belonged to Nigel de Stafford. After passing through the hands of various
families, it finally belonged to the Verdons, through the Verdons to Sir
Robert Francis, who purchased it from them. The heiress of Sir Robert
Francis married Thomas Burdett, Esq., of Bramcote, created a baronet in
1618, and it still belongs to that family. It and Ingleby are mentioned
as Chapels of Repton as early as the thirteenth century. In 1650 a report
was made by Parliamentary Commissioners, from which we gather that
Ingleby was to be disused, and Foremark made the parish church. Owing
to the ruinous state of both chapels, Foremark was rebuilt, and Ingleby
was demolished, its wood and stone were used to build the bell-tower and
churchyard wall of Foremark. On the Feast of St. Matthew, 1662, the new
chapel was consecrated by Bishop Hacket.
The position of Ingleby Church, and the reason why it was not restored,
have been clearly pointed out, in a letter, to Dr. Cox, by Mr. C. S.
Greaves, Q.C., “the chapel of Ingleby stood at the corner of a field,
bounded by the road through the village on one side, and by a wall of a
farm-yard on the other, occupied in my time by Browne. It was the nearest
farmyard to Derby. The course of the walls was plainly indicated by the
raised ground where they had stood. When the present church (of Foremark)
was in contemplation, the then Baronet (Sir Robert Burdett) told the
inhabitants that if they would draw the stone for the church, he would
build it wherever they liked; but if they would not, he would build it
where he liked. They refused, and accordingly it was built where it was
most convenient for the Hall, and most inconvenient for Ingleby.” See
Addenda, Derbyshire Churches, Vol. IV., p. 530.
Dedicated to St. Saviour, the chapel consists of nave, chancel, and
west tower, in the later Perpendicular style. The chancel is separated
from the nave by a high oak screen, glazed with large sheets of glass.
The altar, a large slab of grey marble, supported by a wooden table,
is, according to Dr. Charles Cox (from whose “Notes on the Churches of
Derbyshire” these particulars have been taken), the one consecrated by
Bishop Hacket. There are four five-light windows in the east end, and
sides of the chapel. A gallery was erected in 1819.
In the bell-tower are four bells bearing the bell-mark of George Oldfield
with the following inscriptions:—
I. “Let God arise and his enemies bee scattered. 1668.”
II. “Saint Savior. 1668.”
III. “All glory bee to God on high. Saint Saviours.”
IV. “God save his Church. 1660.”
To the east of the church is Foremark Hall, it occupies the site of
the old hall, “the seat of the Francis family, it was a long, low,
half-timbered structure, with a garden occupying about two acres, in the
centre of which was a large dove-cote.”
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