Derby Medieval Street Museum

0: Derby Castle

Derby Town museum record "In 1151 Ranulph II, Earl of Chester, could have built a form of 'motte and bailey' castle in the Castlefields and Cockpit Hill area".Link to The Gatehouse

1: St Alkmund's Church

The church was built in 1846 by architect Henry Isaac Stevens at a cost of £7,700 on the site of site of several earlier churches stretching back to the 9th century all named after Saint Alkmund. It was constructed in ashlar stone in a gothic style. Inside the church was an architectural triumph, with high pillars and stone arches. Link to Wikipedia

2: Derby Cathedral

3: Nunnery

There was also a small but fairly flourishing house of Benedictine nuns at King's Mead, Derby. This nunnery, the only one in Derbyshire at its outset in the twelfth century, was under the immediate fostering care of its big neighbour, the abbey of Darley, but this control was soon shaken off. Religious Houses of Derbyshire

4: Bridge Chapel

One of only six bridge chapels left in the British Isles. It stands beside the 18th century St Mary's Bridge, which replaced a medieval bridge to which the chapel was originally attached. The precise date when the first bridge chapel came into existence is uncertain, but it is likely to have been around the late 13th to the early 14th century, when it was built on the same site as the present chapel.At the time when the chapel was built, travel was a dangerous occupation with robbery and murder not uncommon and the bridge chapel offered spiritual reassurance to travellers. The chapel also served as a collection point for tolls levied on traffic entering Derby. It was the resident hermit's responsibility to collect the tolls on people and livestock crossing the bridge, the only crossing point of the River Derwent, into the town. The hagioscope, or squint, on the north wall would have been used by the hermit to monitor traffic, as well as by passers-by to see the light indicating the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. Discover Derby

5: Medieval Shop

Foundations thought to be about 600 years old have been discovered on Friar Gate, which suggest the street has always been used for trading.This is Derbyshire

6: Darley Abbey

Darley Abbey is named from the Abbey of St Mary of Darley, founded in 1137. After the Dissolution, its land was leased firstly to Sir Henry Sacheverall, then to Sir William West, who used its stone for building the first Darley Hall, in Darley Park. GenukiBefore the dissolution the site contained the grave of Lord Audley of Markeaton, the slain Lancastrian leader at the Battle of Blore Heath in 1459 Blore Heath

7: Chaddesden Church

St Mary’s has been the Parish Church of Chaddesden since at least 1347AD when we have the earliest recorded reference of the church.The chancel of the present building dates from that period, with the nave, aisles and tower being later additions. St Mary's

8: St Werburgh's Spondon

The present church dates back to around 1390, when it was completed to replace an earlier church destroyed by fire, along with almost the entire village in 1340. It is a very large church compared with the size of the village as it was in the fourteenth century. The earlier church must have been equally large because the present church stands on it's foundations.Church website

9: Breadsall Priory

Breadsall Priory is a beautiful place, and it has a fascinating history.The house that we see today is essentially a 19th century building. But at itsheart is an almost intact Elizabethan mansion, and that stands upon the ruinsof a 13th century Priory.History of Breadsall Priory

10: Markeaton Hall

The manor of Markeaton was held by the Tuchet family from the 13th century.Sir John Tuchet (b1327) married Joan, daughter of James Audley, 2nd Lord Audley and heiress of his brother Nicholas Audley, 3rd Lord Audley of Heleigh Castle, Staffordshire, and in due course their son became the 4th Lord Audley.Sir John Audley of Markeaton fought for Richard III of England at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.

11: Mackworth Church

This is All Saints church Mackworth/Markeaton.The ashlar-faced west tower with angle buttresses connected by a band below and recessed spire is 15th Century. there is a tomb chest with an effigy of Edward Mundy.

12: Mackworth Castle

13: Chellaston Alabaster Quarry

14: Horston Castle

Horston Castle was a Norman earthwork motte and bailey fortress, founded by Ralph de Buron. In the 1200s, King John founded the stone castle, when adding a keep, a chapel, a gatehouse and a barbican. Sadly the castle has been completely dismantled and disturbed by quarrying, with the only substantial remains being of the keep, which is defended by wide deep ditches to the north and east. Built into a boss of rock, which stands against the steep banks of the Bottle Brook, the most prominent features, are a fragment of wall with a sloping plinth and the remains of an angle tower, with a square mural chamber. Castle UK.Net

15: Dale Abbey

The Augustinian monks moved to Dale Abbey in 1162 from their previous home at Calke Abbey. A few years later they were joined by Premonstratensian canons from Tupholme and finally, a few years after this, by another group from Welbeck. All these attempts failed, primarily due to the isolation of the area and the lack of good arable land amidst the thick woodlands.From around the year 1199, the Abbey became well established enough—and with the acquisition of further lands, tithes and other properties—to survive for the next three hundred and forty years. Although a relatively large establishment, the abbey was home to no more than 24 canons. The Abbey provided priests at Ilkeston, Heanor, Kirk Hallam and Stanton by Dale.The Abbey owned around 24,000 acres (97 km2) of land. Much would have been leased or rented out or used for grazing or for the production of produce for the residents of the Abbey.

16: Kedleston Hall

17: Burley Hill Pottery

18: Quarndon Water Mill

19: Quarndon Norman Chapel

20: Ridge and Furrow Fields

These strips were arable land for growing wheat (bread) and barley (ale). Their ridged nature was due to the method of ploughing. The plough was first taken along the centre of a strip and then up and down each side alternately, turning at the end each time so that the mould board always turned the soil towards the centre of the strip. This eventually created a ridge. The strips were aligned with the slope of the land so that the furrows created between them drained the land effectively. Friends of Allestree Park

21: Babington Hall

The Babingtons are supposed to have taken their name from a place called Babington in Northumberland, where they had resided from the time of the Conquest. At what date they removed from their northern abode to Nottinghamshire we cannot say, but there was a John Babington residing at East Bridgford in the time of Richard II. One of the sons of this Sir John was Sir William Babington of Chilwell, who presided for thirteen years as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and on his death, in 1455, was buried at Lenton Priory. The family continued at Chilwell until the death of Sir John Babington, 16th Henry VII., when the manor passed to his sister, and through her daughter to Lord Sheffield. Also descended from the first John Babington of East Bridgford, who had five sons, were the Babingtons of Dethick. The family, owned a large town house in Derby and the coat of arms is still visible above Waterstone's bookshop in Babington Lane. Babington History

22: St Peter's Church

It is believed that St. Peter's church was founded in the reign of Edward the Confessor which began in 1042 so; there has been a church on the site for nearly 1000 years.Some lettering on the pillars is the remains of Norman craftsmanship with St Peter's being listed in the Doomsday Book in 1086. Later, in 1137, the church came under the jurisdiction of the Abbot of Darley Abbey.A significant proportion of the existing building dates back to the medieval period when, in 1338, the south aisle and Chantry were added by the first curate - John de Crich.Paul Morris. A brief history of St. Peter's

23: Morley Motte

Morley Motte is a Norman earthwork motte, founded by Henry de Ferrers. Encased by a wide wet ditch, the small conical motte has a dense cover of trees, so its best view is in winter. Sadly the position of the bailey has been lost.CastleUKNet

24: Morley Church

The greatest point of interest in Morley has to be the Parish Church of St Matthew, which contains one of the finest displays of late medieval glass in the country, and an impressive collection of medieval monuments. The church has a Norman nave, with the tower, chancel and north chapel being late 14th, early 15th century. There are monuments and brasses to important local families like the Sacheverals and the Sitwells, and include those of John Sacheverell, who died at Bosworth Field in 1485 and the beautifully carved tomb chest, with its recumbent effigy and kneeling figures, of Henry Sacheverell. who died in 1558 and his beautiful wife Katherine Babington. Much of the stained glass came from Dale Abbey at the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Much of the glass was restored and added to in 1847.St Matthew's Church

25: Duffield Castle

26: St Alkmund's Duffield

27: Darley Abbey

28: Locko Park

29: The Wardwick

30: The Curzon family

31: The Sacheverell Family

32: Clothmaking site

33: Small scale medieval industrial practices

34: Water mills

35: The Morledge

36: Stone-lined well

37: St Michael's Kirk Langley

38: The Friary

39: St Edmund's Church Allestree

Adelardstreu (now Allestree) is mentioned in the Domesday Book. It is thought that the name probably derives from a tree belonging to a Saxon headman, Adelard. It is possible that the 1000 year old yew tree still standing in the churchyard is the same tree referred to as Adelard's tree.A church dedicated to St Edmund has stood in the centre of Allestree village since Saxon times. Our logo is formed by his Royal crown and the arrows which slew him above Adelard's Tree.The south doorway and the lower part of the Church tower date back to the 11th century. The tower itself was added by 1200AD and is the oldest church tower in Derby. Deep grooves on stones near the base show where men of the village sharpened their arrows when archery practice was a compulsory village activity. Victorian alterations and reordering have given us the very attractive small church we have todaySt Edmund's

40: St. James' Swarkestone

The Parish Church of St. James’ was, until 1219, a daughter chapel of the Knights of St.John at Barrow. It was heavily restored in 1874-76, with only the 14th century tower ans the 16th century Harpur chapel, with its splendid alabaster monuments, remaining intact.St James

41: St Mary the Virgin Weston on Trent

42: Codnor Castle

Codnor Castle is a ruined thirteenth-century castle in Derbyshire, England. The land around Codnor came under the jurisdiction of William Peverel after the Norman conquest.Alt Monument the site is officially, as at 2008, a Building at Risk. Codnor Castle