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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Hi, RIPLEY ADVERTISER FEBRUARY 18TH 1871 CONSECRATION AND OPENING OF THE NEW CHURCH AT ALDERCAR The new church at Aldercar was consecrated and opened by the Lord Bishop of Lichfield on Friday, the 10th inst. The building of the new church was commenced in April of last year. It is a neat little place, of worship, in the Gothic style of architecture, executed in Mansfield stone. The church measures 70 feet long by 24 wide, and is calculated to seat 250 persons. It has a neat little spire, containing a bell, near the east end, and the corbels inside the church, and the bosses at the angles of the windows and doors outside, are carved in imitation of foliage ferns ivy &e. The architects were Messrs Stevens and Robinson, Derby; and the contractors Messrs Fisher and sons, builders and stone merchants, of Mansfield and Southwell, from whose quarries the whole of the stone was supplied. The erection of the church has been superintended by their managing clerk, Mr Dent, and completed to the entire satisfaction of the building committee. The church is surrounded by a burial ground, which has been neatly laid out, and planted with trees and evergreen shrubs. A portion of this was consecrated by the bishop on Friday along with the church, the rest being left unconsecrated for the interment of nonconformists. The cost of the land for the burial ground was defrayed conjointly by F. B. Wright, Esq., of Aldercar Hall, and the late Mr Samuel Beardsley. Mr Wright also subscribers £300 towards the erection of the church. The church stands almost at the extreme northeast corner of the parish of Heanor, and is, legally a chapel of ---- to the parish church, but it is also within a convenient distance of outlying portions of the adjoining parishes of Codnor and Ironville. It has been named “The Church of St John the Evangelist” Notwithstanding the somewhat inclement weather of Friday, the church was filled to overflowing, many of the neighbouring gentry and clergy being present among whom we noticed F. Wright, Esq., Osmaston Manor; F. Beresford Wright Esq., Aldercar Hall; Fitzherbert Wright, Esq., The Hayes; Philip Wright, Esq., the Elms Ripley; the Rev. Henry Wright, Nottingham; the Rev. F. Corfield, Heanor; the Rev. H. W. Plumptre, Eastwood; the Rev. E. Littlewood, Ironville; the Rev. W. G. Ketchley, Ripley; the Rev. G. H. J. P----, Pentrich; the Rev. J. Gibson, Brinsley; the Rev. J. Leatherdale, Golden Valley; the Rev. J. Smith, Codnor; the Rev. – Mansell, Loscoe; &c. After the consecration the bishop preached an excellent sermon from “Christ is all” (Col iii 11) At the evening service the preacher was the Rev. H. Wright of St Nicholas’s, Nottingham, who selected at his text the words “and into whatsoever house ye enter first say, Peace be to this house” (Lu x 5) from which he delivered an affectionate discourse, showing that though the Christian minister may have to utter warnings and expostulations yet the chief element in the gospel message is that God desires to be at peace with man through the blood of his son. The collection at the close of the afternoon service was £227 13s 6d, that after the evening service £106 13s 4d, making the extraordinary total of £334 6s 10d. The newly formed choir was assisted by some of the members of the Eastwood Church the choir and choir of the Wesleyan Chapel, Langley Mill, by whom the chants and hymns were rendered with good effect. Tea was supplied in the schoolroom between the afternoon and evening services, to which about 130 sat down, and great praise is due to the ladies who exerted themselves to provide so excellent a repast. There will be divine service in the church every Sunday afternoon at three o’clock, and it is to be hoped that this, so auspicious a beginning, is the augur of still better things in days to come. RIPLEY ADVERTISER APRIL 29TH 1871 ALDERCAR WILFUL DAMAGE On the night of Thursday the 20th inst, or morning of the 21st, some evil disposed person, or persons, seriously damaged the west window of the new church of St John, at Aldercar, by throwing stones through it. The window consists of three compartments, the middle one of which was the only one the escaped damage; the left hand compartment having one large hole through it near the top, and the right hand one two large holes – one large one about the middle, and a smaller on lower down. The stones with which the two large holes had been made were found lying in the church, one of them having struck the font, but fortunately without injuring it. The stones in their passage through the window had broken the lead as well as the glass, so great was the force with which they had been thrown; and fragments of glass were found lying in the aisle and pews three- fourths of the distance towards the east end and of the church. A bill is out, signed by the churchwardens, offering a reward of £1 to any person who shall give information leading to the conviction of the offenders; and it is to be hoped that the perpetrators of so dastardly an outrage will soon be discovered and brought to justice, and have that measure of punishment dealt out to them which they so richly deserve. [/quote]
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Hi,
RIPLEY ADVERTISER
FEBRUARY 18TH 1871
CONSECRATION AND OPENING OF THE
NEW CHURCH AT ALDERCAR
The new church at Aldercar was consecrated and opened by the Lord Bishop of Lichfield on Friday, the 10th inst. The building of the new church was commenced in April of last year. It is a neat little place, of worship, in the Gothic style of architecture, executed in Mansfield stone. The church measures 70 feet long by 24 wide, and is calculated to seat 250 persons. It has a neat little spire, containing a bell, near the east end, and the corbels inside the church, and the bosses at the angles of the windows and doors outside, are carved in imitation of foliage ferns ivy &e. The architects were Messrs Stevens and Robinson, Derby; and the contractors Messrs Fisher and sons, builders and stone merchants, of Mansfield and Southwell, from whose quarries the whole of the stone was supplied. The erection of the church has been superintended by their managing clerk, Mr Dent, and completed to the entire satisfaction of the building committee. The church is surrounded by a burial ground, which has been neatly laid out, and planted with trees and evergreen shrubs. A portion of this was consecrated by the bishop on Friday along with the church, the rest being left unconsecrated for the interment of nonconformists. The cost of the land for the burial ground was defrayed conjointly by F. B. Wright, Esq., of Aldercar Hall, and the late Mr Samuel Beardsley. Mr Wright also subscribers £300 towards the erection of the church. The church stands almost at the extreme northeast corner of the parish of Heanor, and is, legally a chapel of ---- to the parish church, but it is also within a convenient distance of outlying portions of the adjoining parishes of Codnor and Ironville. It has been named “The Church of St John the Evangelist” Notwithstanding the somewhat inclement weather of Friday, the church was filled to overflowing, many of the neighbouring gentry and clergy being present among whom we noticed F. Wright, Esq., Osmaston Manor; F. Beresford Wright Esq., Aldercar Hall; Fitzherbert Wright, Esq., The Hayes; Philip Wright, Esq., the Elms Ripley; the Rev. Henry Wright, Nottingham; the Rev. F. Corfield, Heanor; the Rev. H. W. Plumptre, Eastwood; the Rev. E. Littlewood, Ironville; the Rev. W. G. Ketchley, Ripley; the Rev. G. H. J. P----, Pentrich; the Rev. J. Gibson, Brinsley; the Rev. J. Leatherdale, Golden Valley; the Rev. J. Smith, Codnor; the Rev. – Mansell, Loscoe; &c. After the consecration the bishop preached an excellent sermon from “Christ is all” (Col iii 11) At the evening service the preacher was the Rev. H. Wright of St Nicholas’s, Nottingham, who selected at his text the words “and into whatsoever house ye enter first say, Peace be to this house” (Lu x 5) from which he delivered an affectionate discourse, showing that though the Christian minister may have to utter warnings and expostulations yet the chief element in the gospel message is that God desires to be at peace with man through the blood of his son. The collection at the close of the afternoon service was £227 13s 6d, that after the evening service £106 13s 4d, making the extraordinary total of £334 6s 10d. The newly formed choir was assisted by some of the members of the Eastwood Church the choir and choir of the Wesleyan Chapel, Langley Mill, by whom the chants and hymns were rendered with good effect. Tea was supplied in the schoolroom between the afternoon and evening services, to which about 130 sat down, and great praise is due to the ladies who exerted themselves to provide so excellent a repast. There will be divine service in the church every Sunday afternoon at three o’clock, and it is to be hoped that this, so auspicious a beginning, is the augur of still better things in days to come.

RIPLEY ADVERTISER
APRIL 29TH 1871
ALDERCAR
WILFUL DAMAGE
On the night of Thursday the 20th inst, or morning of the 21st, some evil disposed person, or persons, seriously damaged the west window of the new church of St John, at Aldercar, by throwing stones through it. The window consists of three compartments, the middle one of which was the only one the escaped damage; the left hand compartment having one large hole through it near the top, and the right hand one two large holes – one large one about the middle, and a smaller on lower down. The stones with which the two large holes had been made were found lying in the church, one of them having struck the font, but fortunately without injuring it. The stones in their passage through the window had broken the lead as well as the glass, so great was the force with which they had been thrown; and fragments of glass were found lying in the aisle and pews three- fourths of the distance towards the east end and of the church. A bill is out, signed by the churchwardens, offering a reward of £1 to any person who shall give information leading to the conviction of the offenders; and it is to be hoped that the perpetrators of so dastardly an outrage will soon be discovered and brought to justice, and have that measure of punishment dealt out to them which they so richly deserve.

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