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Church/Chapel Summary replied on: 11/14/2005 9:33:52 AM Another query about St John's Aldercar??? "St Johns built in the 19th century by the Wright family-local landowners who lived at Aldercar Hall"-(Berrisford-Wrights)"The cchurch served both them and their workers. Prior to its commissioning family and workers were obliged to travel to St Lawrence Church at Heanor in order to worship, Langley Mill and surrounds being part of Heanor Parish.St Johns was built as a daughter church and is known as the Chapel of Ease. Stone built with a slate roof it has many features.There are two particularly interesting stained glass windows sighted east and west. The west window depicts the biblical tale of the Good Samaritan, the west one significant in that it characterizes three saints. By scrutinizing it carefully you will find that the 'middle' Saint has a much younger face than of the other two, this represents the picture, in glass, of a former vicar of the Parish who, at the beginning of the life of the Church was on duty at the neighbouring village of Brinsley when he caught pneumonia and subsequently died. The window was installed in his honour, admirably catching his likeness-a fitting tribute to someone obviously held in high regard by the parishioners. Beneath this window stands a carved wooden panel done by a local man, Mr Buttery. It is known as a reredos, the Latin translate simply meaning 'an ornamental screen covering the wall at the back of the altar'. St Johns now forms part of the Langley Mill and Aldercar Parish and is affiliated to St Andrews langley Mill, built at a much later date." Information taken from "Through the Mill" Does anyone know the name of the Vicar "in the window"

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