Chesterfield is a large but irregularly-built town, pleasantly situated between two rivulets, in the beautiful and fertile vale of Scarsdale, and is the second considerable town in the county. The Saxon name of Chester proves it to be a place of great antiquity, and the Rev. Mr. Pegge imagines it to have originated in a Roman station, on the road from Derby to York, which he supposes to have been fixed on an eminence, called Tapton, or Topton, at the point named Windmill-Hill, but distinguished in several ancient writings by the appellation of Castle Hill.

The Church is a large handsome structure, in the form of a cathedral, and dedicated to All Saints ; it has been built at different times : part of it being very ancient. It appears there was a church here in the 11th century, as King William II. gave the church of Chesterfield to the cathedral of Lincoln, in consequence of which the dean still continues patron. Here is a ring of eight bells, and an organ by Snetzler. The spire, which rises to the height of 230 feet, is covered with lead, and by its extraordinary appearance (for on whatever side it is seen it appears not only to be twisted but to lean) surprises every spectator. At the battle of Chesterfield, fought in the reign of Henry III, in which Robert de Ferrers, the last Earl of Derby of that noble family, was defeated, he escaped into this church ; and secreting himself under some sacks of wool, was discovered by the treachery of a woman, and brought prisoner to London. In the chancel, besides many modern tombs, there are those of the ancient family of Foljambe of Walton, in this parish, with Latin inscriptions; and on the floor are two beautiful brasses of Godfrey Foljambe and Catherine his wife. There are also two very ancient tombs, with Latin inscriptions, of which the following are translations : "Here lies Mr. John Pypys, chaplain to the guild of the Holy Cross, who died the eighth day of the month of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand four hundred and two ; to whose soul may Almighty God be merciful, Amen." The other inscription, which is on the north side of the cross aisle is, "Underneath is deposited the body of John Verdon, formerly rector of Lyndel by, in the county of Nottingham, in the diocese of York, and chaplain of the Chantry of St. Michael the Archangel, in the parish of All Saints, in Chesterfield, who died the second day of the month of May, in the year of our Lord 1500. I desire you to pray for his soul, as you would pray for your own soul." These inscriptions, as a late writer observes, prove that there were formerly a chantry and guild at Chesterfield, and indeed some ancient writings amongst many others equally curious, now in the possession of the corporation, mention several guilds at Chesterfield, one of the Blessed Virgin Mary, another of our Lord Jesus and the Holy Cross, another of St. Helen ; from the chapel of which, it is conjectured the grammar school, commonly called the Chapel School, derives its name.—Among these papers is likewise mentioned the Chapel of St. Thomas, at the west end of the town, and the Hospital for Lepers, dedicated to St. Leonard, with its free chapel, founded before the 10th of Richard I. Besides the church, there are four meeting-houses; one for Presbyterians, one for Independents, one for Quakers, and one for Methodists.

The Free School was founded in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and was formerly one of the largest in the north of England. The present building was erected in the year 1710, as appears from a Latin inscription on a tablet over the door, and is built on the site where the old one, reduced almost to ruin by length of years, formerly stood. Several Alms-houses have been endowed in different parts of the town ; and at the Castle Inn an elegant Assembly room was built a few years ago, for the amusement of the more respectable inhabitants.

A Town Hall has been erected of late years in the Market-place, under the direction of Mr. Carr, architect of York; the ground floor of which has a house for the gaoler, and a gaol for debtors : on the second floor is a large room, where the sessions are held once a year, grand jury room, &c. There is also a house of correction.

In the town are a silk and cotton mill, a manufactory of worsted and cotton stockings, carpets, &c. Several potteries, chiefly of brown ware, are likewise established here ; and near the town are large iron-founderies, the ore and coal for which are found in the neighbourhood.

From the parish register it appears that this town has been more than once visited by that dreadful calamity the plague ; one of which began in October, 1586, and was called the great plague, to distinguish it from a less fatal infection, which broke out in the year 1608-9.

Chesterfield was formerly an ancient demesne belonging to the crown ; but King John made it a free borough, and in the sixth year of his reign gave it to William Brevier, his favourite ; granting it the same privileges as were enjoyed by the towns of Nottingham and Derby. By his charter he established a fair during eight days, beginning at the exaltation of the Holy Cross, and two weekly markets, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, the former of which has been long since discontinued.—Baldwin Wake, by marrying the daughter of William Brevier, jun. obtained possession of this manor, from whom it descended through the families of Wake, Plantagenet, Holland, and Neville. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth it belonged to George, Earl of Shrewsbury ; it then came, by purchase, into the possession of William, Earl of Newcastle, and Sir Charles Cavendish, his brother, and descended to the Duke of Portland, who has within these few years exchanged it for some other property with the present Duke of Devonshire.

The charter granted by King John has been confirmed and enlarged by several sovereigns, viz. Henry III. Edward I. Edward IV. Henry VIII. Edward VI. Elizabeth, and Charles II. In the year 1294 a guild of merchants was granted to the town, with all privileges appertaining thereto, and it was governed by an alderman and 12 brethren, until the reign of Queen Elizabeth, who first incorporated it under the name of the mayor, six aldermen, six brethren, and twelve corporal burgesses, assisted by a town clerk. This charter has been farther ratified and confirmed by King Charles II. And is that by which the town is at present governed.

It gives title to the family of Stanhope.

About three miles to the south-east of Chesterfield is Sutton Hall, an ancient and spacious building, standing on elevated ground, and commanding some fine views over the adjacent country. It is the property and residence of Thomas Kinnersley, Esq. who succeeded to the estate some few years since, under the will of Godfrey Bagnall Clarke, Esq.

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CHESTERFIELD, formerly a Roman station, is a municipal borough, market and union town, head of a petty sessional division and county court district, township and parish, including the township of Tapton, with stations on the Midland, Great Central (late M. S. and L.), and Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast railways; the town is 12 miles south from Sheffield by railway, 24 ¼ north from Derby, 73 ½ from Rugby, 29 ¾ from Doncaster, 87 from Hull, 151 ¾ from Newcastle, 49 ¾ from Leeds, 58 from York, 27 from Nottingham, 66 ½ from Birmingham, 40 from Lincoln by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast railway, 58 ¼ from Manchester via Ambergate and 49 via Dore and Chinley, 76 ¼ from Macclesfield and 145 from London, in the Chesterfield division of the county, Scarsdale hundred, rural deanery of Chesterfield, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. A canal runs from the north-west of the town to the Trent, a distance of 46 miles, the river Hipper also running close to the south side of the town, joining the Rother, and then taking a circuitous route between Killamarsh and Beighton, where it enters Yorkshire. In 1889 the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company (now Great Central) obtained powers to construct a line from their Beighton branch through Staveley to Chesterfield, and from Staveley to a junction with the Great Northern at Annesley in Notts. This line has been completed to Annesley, affording access to the various collieries along the route, the district traversed comprising a coalfield estimated to contain no less than 800 million tons of coal. The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Company was incorporated in 1891 by a special Act of Parliament, with power to make a trunk line from Warrington, eastward through Macclesfield, Buxton, and Chesterfield, and across the great coal field to Lincoln, and thence to an authorised harbour at Sutton-on-Sea on the coast of Lincolnshire. The Central section of this Railway from Chesterfield to Lincoln, with a branch to Clowne and Killamarsh has been completed, and was in part opened for traffic, 8 February, 1897, and the five miles from Clowne to Killamarsh was subsequently opened 21 September, 1898. A new branch is now (1899) in course of construction, about 2 miles from Chesterfield, to the Calow and Bonds Main Collieries, belonging to the Staveley Coal and Iron Co. Limited. The Sheffield District Railway, also now in course of construction, will give the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Co. access to Sheffield, and passenger trains will then run into the Midland station, and is expected to be completed about the end of the year 1899. A new goods depot is being erected at Attercliffe for goods and coal traffic.

The Chesterfield Corporation run tram cars to Brampton every 12 minutes.

The town is situated on a gentle eminence, is lighted with gas and well paved, and the houses though irregularly built, now are for the most part of a good size: it is supplied with water and lighted with gas from works now the property of the Chesterfield Gas and Water Board, which consists of the Chesterfield Corporation and the Urban District Councils of Newbold-cum-Dunston and Whittington; the previous company, incorporated in 1825, constructed gas works at the bottom of West Bars: the area supplied with water includes the borough of Chesterfield, six townships, and five villages: there are two reservoirs at Linacre, in the parish of Brampton, and one at Clubmill, in the township of Newbold; these were enlarged in 1855 and 1856, the storage capacity now amounts to 161,000,000 gallons. The undertaking was taken over by the new Board 25 March, 1896, at a cost of £245,336. The gas works were re-constructed in 1898 at a cost of about £15,000. A scheme of drainage, undertaken in 1877 at a cost of £25,000, has been completed.

The Corporation is ancient, the first mayor having been elected in 1598, and it consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen, and 18 councillors. The borough in 1892 was extended by the additions of parts of the parishes of Brampton, Hasland, Newbold-cum-Dunston and part of Walton township; a separate commission of the peace granted in 1870.

The church of St. Mary and All Saints, given by William Rufus to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, is a large cruciform building, consisting of chancel, with aisles and chapels on either side, clerestoried nave of six bays, transepts, aisles, south porch and a central tower with plain parapet, and four octagonal pinnacles, from within which springs the well-known and singularly twisted spire, constructed of timber, covered with lead, the height of which, exclusive of the vane, is 230 feet: in the tower are 10 bells, all cast in 1819, the previous peal of 8 dating from 1774: S. Burkitt esq. in Feb. 1881, contributed upwards of £50 towards the further repairs of the bells, when they were all re-hung: the oldest portions of the present building are to be found in the transepts, and belong to the Early English period, c. 1250; the greater part of the structure is Decorated, built, it would seem, at three if not four different times, the earliest part being the south, or Calton chapel, and a unique pillar supporting the arches separating it from the transept; part of the north, or Holy Cross chapel of the north transept, though much changed by repairs in the last century, is of the same date, and has a very fine window of four lights, with elegant Flamboyant tracery, restored in 1890: the Decorated east window of the chancel was inserted in 1842—3, superseding an earlier Perpendicular work: the whole of the nave, the aisles, porch, tower and probably the spire, with a part of the south transept, form one design, and are certainly not earlier than 1350: the nave is separated from the aisles by arcades of six arches on either side, the piers being formed of four clustered shafts, with plain caps: the large west window is Perpendicular, and there is a western entrance: the date of the spire cannot be fixed with certainty, but it was probably erected between 1350 and 1370, and is octagonal in plan, its leaden covering being applied in diagonally-placed parallelograms, producing a singular and altogether unique effect; endless conjectures have been made as to its strange distortion, some even contending that the crookedness is simply an optical delusion and not a reality: according, however, to the statements of the Rev. G. Hall, the ball on which the weathercock is fixed, was found in January, 1818, to lean towards the south 6 feet from its immediate perpendicular, as well as 4 feet 4 inches westward, its greatest deviation being thus nearly midway between these two points, or almost south-west; as to the cause of this deflection, it seems most reasonable to attribute it to the weight of the lead, and the action of the sun, a conclusion sufficiently justified by actual surveys: in 1718, the chancel was enlarged and newly seated; in 1769, the north transept was rebuilt at a cost of £372 5s. 7d. and in 1774, the western roofs were re-timbered and leaded: a more thorough renovation took place in 1842—3, under the direction of the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott R.A. when the galleries were removed, the interior re-seated with carved benches, and an oak roof substituted for a flat plaster ceiling, some ancient wall paintings being laid bare, and several piscinae niches discovered, one of which is in the Calton chapel, where remains the massive oaken parish chest bound with iron and fastened with six locks: on one of the tombs in the Foljambe chapel lies a huge bone, 7 feet 4 inches in length and from 12 to 14 inches in circumference, being in fact part of the jaw of a whale, although traditionally assigned to the Dun cow, said to have been killed by Guy, Earl of Warwick: there is much interesting old woodwork, both the transepts having Perpendicular screens; the very beautiful carved and canopied reredos, originally forming a screen to the Foljambe chapel, and adorned with eighteen escutcheons of arms was removed in 1898 to the south transept; the pulpit of black oak, and the communion table are Jacobean: in the south aisle, under a canopied stone recess, is the effigy of a priest, not as yet identified: the Foljambe monuments now remaining are collected in the south chapel of the chancel, and enclosed with iron railings; these include (1) a fine altar tomb, with matrices of figures, shields and inscription to Henry Foljambe, with effigies on the sides of his seven sons and seven daughters under canopies; (2) an altar tomb, with brass figures, to Sir Godfrey Foljambe, eldest son of Henry, and his wife Katherine (1529—41); (3) a mural monument to Sir James Foljambe, eldest son of Sir Godfrey, with kneeling figures of the knight, his two wives and thirteen children (1558); (4) mural monuments to Godfrey, next brother to Sir James (1559); to Sir Godfrey, eldest son of Sir James, with figures of himself and his wife Trothea, and Godfrey, his son (1594); on the floor is an alabaster slab, with an armed figure and mutilated inscription, to George Foljambe, of Brimington, second son of Sir James (1588); here also is a unique kneeling figure of a knight in armour, probably intended for Sir Thomas Foljambe (1604): at the entrance to the Calton chapel are traces of a fine brass with a crocketed canopy, to John Verdon, rector of Syndeby and chaplain of the chantry of St.Michael in this church; a portion of this brass (date 1500) is preserved in the south transept: the church once contained much fine heraldic glass, but of the 40 coats mentioned by Wyrley, in 1592, only four now remain, and are in the south window of the Foljambe chapel: the stained west window, erected by Mr. C. P. Markham, as a memorial to his father, the late Charles Markham esq. was dedicated 6 April, 1890: two charities were founded here, that of St. Mary Magdalen previous to 1364, and that of St. Michael in 1357: in August, 1885 a piscina niche was discovered in the east wall of the eastern chapel of the north transept, and in the south wall a hagioscope of unusually large size: this chapel contained the altar of the Holy Cross and a chantry, founded in 1218, by “the Brethren of the Guild of Our Lord Jesus Christ and of the Holy Cross”: the chapel was restored in 1889—90 as a memorial to the Rev. George Butt M.A vicar of Chesterfield, 1851—8: the custom of ringing a bell, known as “the Pancake bell,” on Shrove Tuesday, still prevails here; the ringing commencing at 10.45 a.m. . and continuing for 15 minutes: its original intention of course being to summon the parishioners to confession and shrift: according to ancient custom a time-bell is also tolled for a quarter of an hour every week day morning throughout the year (except from Christmas Eve to Twelfth Day) at 5.45 a.m. . followed immediately by the tolling of the day of the month, and at 12 o’clock at noon the same bell is tolled for 5 minutes; a curfew is also tolled every week day evening at 8 p.m. except from Christmas Eve to Twelfth Day, and on the vigils of Saints’ days, when the time is 7 p.m.: the Calton and Foljambe chapels were thoroughly restored in 1897—8, at a cost of about £2,400: there are 1,253 sittings, 184 being free. The registers date from the year 1558. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £300, with 3 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Southwell, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Egbert Hacking M.A. of Clare College, Cambridge.

Holy Trinity is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1841. The church, at the north-west extremity of the town, erected in 1838, at a cost of £3,700, is a plain but substantial building of stone, consisting of nave, and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and one bell: the Duke of Devonshire gave the site: in 1889 the church was restored, at a cost of £1,500, when the ceiling and galleries were removed, the timbers of the roof strengthened and decorated, an organ chamber built, the nave re-seated, and choir stalls reacted: in this church lie the remains of the great engineer, George Stephenson, who died 12 Aug. 1848, and to whose memory a stained east window was placed in 1848: in 1894 the organ was restored and enlarged at a cost of £180: there are 550 sittings, one-third being free. The living was declared a rectory 29 March, 1867, net yearly value £310, with residence, in the gift of trustees and held since 1892 by the Rev. Noel Lake Aspinall M.A. of St. John’s College, Oxford, and surrogate.

Christ Church, Stonegravels, a chapel of ease to Holy Trinity, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, of the 14th century, erected in 1869, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, south porch and a turret containing one bell: it was thoroughly renovated and decorated in 1889, at a cost of about £100, and a memorial window placed in the centre of the apse to the late Mrs. Bradbury, of the Lawn, Stonegravels: it has 160 sittings.

The Mission church of St. James in Vicar lane, is an edifice of red brick with stone dressings, erected and presented to the parish in 1896 by the late Rev. the Hon. Cecil Littleton M.A. then vicar, in memory of his mother, and will seat 200 persons.

The Catholic church of the Annunciation, in Spencer street, erected during the period 1854—74, is a spacious edifice of stone in the Early Gothic style, from designs by Mr. Joseph Hansom, architect, of London, consisting of chancel, lady chapel, clerestoried nave, aisles, baptistery and the lower stage of a western tower: the stained east window was inserted in 1884, by W. P. Arkwright esq. as a memorial of bis marriage, and there is another, placed in 1892 to Mrs. Lucas, of Harland Hall: the pulpit, of Bath stone and alabaster, was erected in 1887: there is also a marble statue of the Sacred Heart, by Meyer, of Munich: there are 550 sittings.

The Unitarian chapel, Saltergate, the oldest Dissenting place of worship in the town, was built in 1694, and has sittings for 250. The Congregational chapel, in Soresby street, built in 1822, will seat 650. The Primitive Methodist chapel, Holywell street, built in 1881, has 650 sittings. The Wesleyan chapel, Saltergate, built in 1898, seats 950: the Baptist chapel. Brewery street, built in 1862, 310 sittings: and the Friends’ meeting-house, Saltergate, built in 1673 and enlarged and repaired in 1770, has sittings for 70.

A cemetery of 8 acres, with two mortuary chapels, was opened at Spital in 1857, at a cost of £6,000, and is under the control of the Chesterfield and Tapton Burial Acts Joint Committee, consisting of 10 members of the Borough Council and 3 members representing Tapton.

The principal industries include a large tannery, iron and brass foundries, while in the neighbouring villages many hands are employed in the ironstone and coal mines, in the manufacture of edge tools and brown earthenware, and in the slate and sandstone quarries.

The Stephenson Memorial Hall, in Corporation street and St. Mary’s gate, was designed by Messrs. Smith and Woodhouse, architects, of Manchester, and erected in 1877—9, by public subscription, at a cost of about £13,400, to commemorate the connection with the town and neighbourhood of the great railway engineer, George Stephenson, who, besides being the pioneer of the railway system generally, and engineer-in-chief of the Midland railway, founded the Clay Cross and other local works; he finally resided and died at Tapton House, 12 Aug. 1848, and was buried in the chancel of Holy Trinity church: the foundation stone was laid by the present Duke of Devonshire K.G. then Marquess of Hartington, 17 Oct. 1877, and the building was opened by the late Duke of Devonshire K.G. 14 July, 1879: the building contains a public hall, with sittings for over 1,200 persons, which has now been converted into a theatre; in the basement are offices, and the building also includes premises, occupied by the Chesterfield Institute, the borough free library and reading room, a lecture room seating nearly 300 persons, elementary and advanced art rooms, laboratory, and science class rooms: by the trust deed, dated 16 May, 1878, this institution is intended to devote its particular attention to the study of mining and mechanical engineering, as well as to the advancement in this locality of the Cambridge University Extension Scheme: the science classes are worked in connection with the department at South Kensington: in 1889 the building was transferred from trustees to the corporation, and in 1897—8 it was enlarged and re-decorated at a cost of about £4,000: the committee of management is composed of members of the corporation.

The Chesterfield and Midland Counties Institution of Engineers was established in 1871, and has about 300 members, chiefly managers of mines and engineers in the Midland district: five regular meetings for discussion are held annually, the original papers contributed being afterwards printed: excursion meetings also occasionally take place.

The Institute, Newbold road, erected in 1898, at the cost of the late Mrs. Mary Marsden, of Chesterfield, is a building in the Flemish Renaissance style, from designs by Messrs. Rollinson and Son, architects, of Chesterfield; all parochial meetings are held here.

The Theatre Royal, Corporation street, erected in 1895, at a cost of about £4,500, is the property of the North of England Theatre Corporation Limited, and will seat about 2,500.

The East Derbyshire Club Co. Limited has premises in Salter gate, to which is attached a Masonic Hall. The Scarsdale Lodge, No. 681, and also the Hardwick Lodge, No. 2373, both hold their meetings here.

A lock-up house, in Marsden street, was erected in 1860.

The market is held every Saturday in a large open space in the heart of the town, and is well supplied with corn, cattle, butter, eggs, meat and vegetables from the neighbouring villages. Cattle fairs are held yearly of January 27th, February 28th, the first Saturday in April, May 4th, July 5th (principally for wool), September 25th, and a statute fair for hiring servants. November 25th, which is toll free.

There are four banks and a savings bank: a brand of the Sheffield Banking Company Limited, New square; Messrs. Crompton and Evans’ Union Bank Limited. Guman gate; a branch of the Sheffield Union Banking Company Limited, Low Pavement, and a branch of the London City and Midland Bank Lim. Low Pavement; the savings bank is in Central pavement.

Two newspapers are published in Chesterfield: the “Derbyshire Courier,” established 1828, by a limited company; the oldest paper outside Derby, and circulates over a large area, and the “Derbyshire Times, ’’ which has a very large circulation, by Mr. Wilfred Edmunds, every Wednesday and Saturday.

The Station Family and Commercial Hotel, situated close to all the railway stations, has recently undergone extensive alterations and additions, and is now lighted with the electric light; the hotel contains excellent stock and billiard rooms. The Angel Hotel, in the Market place, is also an excellent hostelry.

Chesterfield is the head quarters of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, the Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment).

The Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Hospital, in Holywell street, erected in 1859, and enlarged in 1872 and 1892, is available for 60 patients, but more could be admitted on an emergency; connected with it is a dispensary affording relief to about 2,000 poor persons in the course of the year; under its present constitution only surgical cases are admitted as in-patients.

A Workman’s Home was erected in 1877—78 at a cost of £4,500 for 89 single men; the building comprises sitting, dining and reading rooms, kitchen, 89 beds and lavatories.

The tithes of the Attenborough estate and dividends on Consols, and the rent of the Ashover estate of 289 acres, yield between £700 and £800 yearly; out of this amount £40 is paid to the vicar, £13 6s. 8d. to a schoolmaster, £13 6s. 8d. to Magdalene College and £20 to Jesus College, Cambridge, £150 to the Grammar school, and £5 to Chilwell school, Notts, and the remainder is distributed in money to the poor of Chesterfield and nine other places; additional sums, amounting to about £260 yearly, being distributed in money and kind in June and at Christmas.

Eleven Almshouses, founded at various times and by different benefactors, were in 1875 all taken down and rebuilt in Salter gate, by the trustees of the Chesterfield charities, by means of a benefaction of Johanna, wife of the Rev. John Boyer, of Spital House, who died January 8th, 1871; the inmates, eleven poor men or women, receive 8s. per week each.

Races, patronized by the Duke of Devonshire K.G. are held on Whittington moor and are well attended.

Queen’s Park, purchased by subscription in 1887, in honour of the Queen’s Jubilee, covers about 22 acres; it is vested in the corporation, and includes a cricket ground and gymnasium and a lake on which boating may be had; bands play occasionally during the summer months. A refreshment pavilion and park keeper’s house was erected in 1898 at a cost of about £1,500.

The Duke of Devonshire K.G. is lord of the manor; the land is held by a number of freeholders.

The area of the enlarged municipal borough is 1,219 acres; rateable value, £88,167. The population in 1891 was 22,009; estimated present population (1899) 25,000. The population of St. Mary and All Saints ecclesiastical parish in 1891 was 10,323, and of Holy Trinity, 6,579.

Castle Hill, which still has some ancient remains, is three-quarters of a mile north-east; Hady, 1 ½ east; Spittal, three-quarters of a mile south-east; Bird Holm, 2 miles south; Boythorpe, 1 mile south-west; Stone Gravels, 1 mile north.

Petty Sessions held at the Municipal hall, Saturday, 11 a.m. .-The following places are in the Chesferfield sessional division:-Ault Hucknall, Barlow, Bolsover, Brampton, Brimington, Calow, Glapwell, Hasland Heath, Upper Langwith, Newbold, North Wingfield, Pleasley, Scarcliffe, Staveley, Sutton-cum-Duckmanton, Tapton, Temple Normanton, Tupton, Walton, Whittington, Wingerworth, Woodthorpe with Egstowe.

VOLUNTEERS

2nd Volunteer Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment), comprising A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I & K, Companies; head quarters, Drill hall. Chesterfield.

CHESTERFIELD UNION

Board day, alternate Saturdays, at 10.45 a.m. . Chesterfield union comprises the following places:-Ashover, Barlow, Beighton, Bolsover, Brackenfield, Brampton, Brimington, Calow, Chesterfield, Clay Lane, Coal Aston, Dronfield, Dronfield Woodhouse, Eckingtdn, Egstow, Hasland, Heath, Holmesfield, Killamarsh, Morton, Newbold & Dunston, North Wingfield, Pilsley, Shirland & Higham, Staveley, Stretton, Sutton-cum-Duckmanton, Tapton, Temple Normanton, Tupton, Unstone, Walton, Wessington, Whittington, Wingerworth & Woodthorpe. The area of the union is 89,870 acres; rateable value in 1899, £550,355; the population in 1891 was 111,740.

The Workhouse, in Newbold road, a fine brick building, was opened January 1st, 1840, & will hold 300 inmates.

PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of Services

St. Mary & All Saints’ Church, St. Mary’s gate, Rev. Egbert Hacking M.A. vicar; Revs. T. P. Castley B.A. F. J. Salt M.A. & W. F. Harden, curates; services-Sundays, holy communion, 7 & 8 a.m. . & 1st Fri. in month at 12 noon; matins & sermon, 11 a.m. .; baptisms, 3.45 p.m.; evensong & sermon, 6.30 p.m. Daily, holy communion, 8 a.m. .; matins, 8.30; evensong, 7.15; Wednesdays & Fridays, litany, 12.5 p.m.; baptisms, Wednesdays & Fridays, 12.15 p.m. 8 p.m. Saturdays.

Holy Trinity Church, Newbold road, Rev. N. L. Aspinall M.A. rector; Rev. F. H. Frossard M.A. curate; 10.45 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; Thur. 7.30 with sermon; saints’ days, 11 a.m. .; daily, 8 a.m.

Christ Church, Stonegravels, served from Holy Trinity church; 10.45 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

St. Thomas’, New Brampton, Rev. Henry Edwd. Ferry, rector; 8 & 10.30 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; 1st Sunday in month, 11.45 a.m. .; daily (except Wed.), 8 a.m. . & 5.30 p.m.; Wed. 8 a.m. . & 7.30 p.m.; holy days, 7.45 a.m. . & 7.30 p.m.

St. Thomas’ Mission, Hipper street. New Brampton, served from St. Thomas’; 10.30 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.

St. Thomas’ Mission Church, Holymoorside, served from St. Thomas’; 1st & 3rd. Sunday, 10.45 a.m. .; 2nd & 4th Sunday, 6.30 p.m.

Catholic Church of the Annunciation, Spencer street, Rev. Joseph Jackson & Rev. Edmund von Wurtzburg S.J.; 8, 9 & 10.30 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; daily, 7.30 & 8 a.m. .; Fri. 8 p.m.

Baptist, Brewery street, Rev. R. I. Mesquitta; 10.30 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; Tue. & Thur. 7.30 p.m.

Congregational, Chatsworth road, New Brampton, Rev. J. E. Simon B.A.; 10.30 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Congregational, Soresby street, Rev. Walter Mitchell; 10.30 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; Thur. 7.30 p.m.

Society of Friends’ Meeting House, Saltergate; 10.30 a.m. . & 3 p.m.; fourth Wed. 10.30 a.m.

Primitive Methodist, Baslow road, New Brampton, Rev. J. Watson; 2.45; & 6.15 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Primitive Methodist, Chatsworth Road, New Brampton, Rev. J. Watson; 10.30 a.m. . & 6.15 p.m.; Mon. 7.30 p.m.

Primitive Methodist, Holywell Cross, Rev. Albert L. Humphries M.A.; 10.30 a.m. . & 6.15 p.m.; Thur. 7.30 p.m.

Unitarian, Elder yard, Saltergate, Rev. Ambrose Bennett; 10.45 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.

United Methodist Free Church, Marsden street, Rev. Wm, Francis; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Wesleyan, Saltergate, Revs. R. Bray & John Clarke; 10.30 a.m. . & 6 p.m.; Thur. 7.30 p.m.

Wesleyan, Spital, Rev.-Marsden; 6 p.m.

Ragged School & Gospel Hall (unsectarian), Wheeldon lane; 6.30 p.m.; Thur. 7.30 p.m.

Bethesda Mission, Compton street, F. Smith; 11 a.m. . & 6.30 p.m.; Mon. Wed. &. Fri. 8 p.m.

Gospel Mission, Chatsworth road, New Brampton; 3 & 6.30 p.m.; Thur. 8 p.m.

St. Leonard’s Mission, Spital; Tue. 7.30 p.m.

SCHOOLS

The Grammar School, Sheffield road, founded in 1594, & rebuilt in 1846, was re-organised in 1876, for 200 boys, & has a yearly endowment of more than £700. The school has 10 Heathcote & 10 foundation scholarships, entitling to free education for 3 years; it is also recognised by the Derbyshire County Council as a district technical school; the buildings contain class rooms, school hall, chemical lab oratories, lecture theatre, workshop & an excellent gymnasium, & are now (1899) being extensively enlarged; attached to the school are cricket & football fields; James Mansell B.A., F.C.S. Lond. headmaster, who receives a few boarders in the school house. This school is a centre for the Cambridge Local Examinations & for those of the Science & Ait department. Thomas Seeker D.C.L. Archbishop of Canterbury 1758—68, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, the eminent botanist & John Pearson D.D. Bishop of Chester, were educated here.

Victoria, Vicar lane, erected in 1844, for 150 girls & 224 infants; average attendance, 184 girls & 121 infants; named in commemoration of Her Majesty’s visit to Chesterfield & Chatsworth House in 1843.

Holy Trinity, Soresby street, erected in 18 61, for 188 boys & 220 infants; average attendance, 140 boys, & 167 infants.

National (mixed) (Chatsworth road). New Brampton, erected about 1830 & enlarged in 1868 & 1885, for 290 children & 90 infants; average attendance, 235 & 97 infants.

Catholic, Spencer street, erected in 1860, for 450 children; average attendance, 110 boys, 90 girls &; 130 infants.

A temporary infant school was opened in the Wesleyan chapel, Old Hall road, Jan. 9, 1899, in connection with the Board school, New Brampton, for 200 children; average attendance, 167.

A School Board of 7 members was formed 1 Feb. 1871, & enlarged to 9 members in 1892; William Tom Jones, Glumangate, clerk to the board; Charles J. Kerslake, Durrant road, clerk to managers of schools.

Board Schools

Durrant road, erected in 1860, & enlarged in 1877, for 150 girls & 145 infants; average attendance, 154 girls & 140 infants.

St. Helen’s street, erected in 1872, for 199 boys, 181 girls, 108 juniors & 193 infants; average attendance, 175 boys, 173 girls, 103 juniors & 189 infants.

Hipper street, erected in 1872, for 317 boys, 160 girls & 154 infants; average attendance, 324 boys, 136 girls & 136 infants.

Board, New Brampton, erected in 1877, & enlarged in 1895, for 203 boys, 252 girls, 280 juniors & 384 infants; average attendance, 203 boys, 292 girls, 206 juniors & 416 infants.

Board, Holymoorside, erected in 1874 by Messrs, Manlove & Sons, who sold it to the School Board; it will hold 200 children; average attendance, 66 boys, 50 girls & 26 infants.

Chesterfield Union Schools, erected in 1880—1 at a cost of about £12,600, on about eleven acres, purchasad from the Chesterfield Charity Trustees, at Ashgate road, Brampton, for the sum of £2,500: the buildings are of pressed brick, with stone dressings within, from designs by Messrs. Rollinson & Son, architects, Chesterfield, & comprise a centre & two wings, connected by covered ways; the central portion being devoted to the administrative department & the wings to the boys & girls respectively; average attendance, 162.