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Jennypeg
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St Michael vs St Lawrence
replied on: 12/8/2006 1:44:09 PM

I will keep looking

July 1954
Ilkeston Pioneer
THE CHURCH
Of Heanor presents many interesting architectural features. Its tower is an unusually beautiful one for a village church, but the interior gives sad proof of “Churchwarden’s havoc”. In 1473 it was conveyed by the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry to the Abbey of Dale. The great tithes therefore became the property of that monastery, and continued to be so till the Dissolution. The chancel contains several fine monuments to the Mundy family. 1. Edward Mundy, Esq., and Hester, his wife, daughter of Richard Miller, Esq., and niece of Sir Humphrey Miller, Bart, He died 1767. 2. Of Edward Miller Mundy, Esq., and Frances, his first wife, daughter of Sir Godfrey Meynell. 3. Of Georgiana Dowager Baroness Middleton, his second wife by whom he had one daughter, the late Duchess of Newcastle.
Another monument commemorates Patience the wife of Thomas Burton, Esq., 1679; and another Samuel Watson, a native of Heanor the carver of the principal stone work at Chatsworth. Watson was a man of original genius and his epitaph justly claims foe him the merit of some of the best of the Chatsworth sculptures:
Watson is gone whose skilful art displayed
To th’ very life whatever nature made
View but his wondrous works in Chatsworth Hall
Which are so gazed at and admir’d by all.
Lord Orford erroneously calls him the pupil of Grinling Gibbons the fact is Gibbons was a pupil of Watson’s.
Mr Watson died in 1715. His grandson was the late ingenious White Watson, of Bakewell, who inherited much of his grandsire’s skill, and was one of the first English geologists. Monuments of the ancient family of Roper, of Lowe, of Owlgreaves, of the Winters of Langley, and Clarkes of Codnor have disappeared.

Also
What is the derivation of the name Heanor? It was anciently written Henoure. It is often very erroneously pronounced Haynor just as Derby is, by the vulgar, but by educated persons pronounced Durby instead of Darby. We were once corrected for the last pronunciation. We did not defend it by referring as we might have done, to the Saxon etymon we simply asked how Clerk, Sergeant, Berkshire are pronounced? And the objectionist was silenced. Heanor then is Heanour or Heanor it is not Haynor or Hanor and it never was.
Little is known of the early history of Heanor, The first fact worth recording is that in the reign of Henry the second, it was a chapelry to the church of St Mary at Derby. The parish however was in very early times of great extent and importance, for it comprised then, as does still Codnor, Codnor Castle and Park, Loscoe, Langley, Shipley, and Milnhay.
Jenny

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