236 lLKESTON. . (KELLY'S

ILKESTON (anciently "TILCHESTUNE") forn:s with road, has So sittings. The general cemetery of 2 acres, in C01.'MANHAY a municipal borough, with stations on Stanton road, opened in r864,at a cost of £400, is private pro­ the ErewashValley rail way (Midland), by a branch from Ilkes­ perty and uncnnsecratcd, and there is no mortuary chapel: ton junction, and of the Great Northern railway, I25 miles it is managed by a burial board of 7 members, who meet from London, 8 west-by-north from Nottingham and 9 east­ every month at 6 p.m. at the office in the cemetery. The north-east from Derby, in the llkeston division of the county, Town Hall, situated in the Market place, and built in x868, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch, Smalley petty sessional is a plain brick building, in which petty sessions are held division, union of Basford, county court district of Belper, every week and a county court every month, for the rural deanery of Ilkeston, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese side of the Bel per and llkeston district ; the police offices are of South well. The Ilkeston junction station of the Erewash also here. The manufacture of hosiery and lace is exten· Valley railway with the .Midland line to Nottingham, is locally sively carried on, and numerous veins of coal are actively in the parish of Cossall, Notts. The town stands on a hill worked. On the banks of the Erewash canal, which crosses near the river Erewash and the Ere wash canal, commanding the parish, are several brick yards. This place obtained a beautiful views in every direction. The Nntbrook canal, grant for a market and a fair in 1251 ; the still existing mar­ beginning at Shipley, passes on the western side of the parish. ket, principally for pigs, meat, butter, cheese, poultry and The town received a charter of incorporation in I887, the fruit, and formerly for corn, is held on Thursday, and a corporate body consisting of a mayor, 6 aldermen and I8 hiring and statute fair for servants on the first Thursday councillors, and is divided into three wards; the corporation after October I rth. The Cottage Hospital, Station road, acting as the Urban Sanitary Authority ; it IS lighted with was established in 1885 and contains 10 beds. The charities gas from works the property of the Corporation, and sup­ for distribution amount to £6o yearly. The Duke of Rut­ plied with water from Kirk Hallam. The church of St. land P.C., G.c.B. is lord of the manor and principal land· Mary is a building of stone, consisting of chancel with a owner. The area is 2, 526 acres; rateable value, £53,212 ss.; north aisle or chapel, nave, aisles, and a lofty pinnacled the population in I86I was 8,374; in 1871 was 9,662; and in tower at the west end containing a clock and 5 bells, dating 188r was I4,122. from 166o to 1749: the church originally had a spire, but HALL.AM FIELDS is a hamlet in the parish of Ilkeston, the tower and spire being much damaged by a great storm 2 miles south-east. The church of St. Bartholomew is a in I714, a brief was obtained, and money collected in 1723 small iron building with one bell, erected in r88o by the for their rebuilding, at an estimated cost of £1,350; in 1731 Crompton family, in memory of their father and mother, the tower only was rebuilt, and in I8S5 was removed and Gilbert and Deborah Crompton, who died in 1879, and to the present tower erected, the outer walls of the aisles being whom a brass tablet is placed on the south wall of the church: renewed, and the west end of the aisles, vestry and north the stained east window was given by George Crompton esq.: chancel aisle rebuilt, all on the old foundations: the lofty there are 300 sittings: the Rev. William Thomas Stratford; arcade of three arches separating the nave and south aisle is has been curate in charge since 1885. The population is Transitional and has circular piers ; the arches being orna­ I 100. mented with the chevron and nail-head device : the windows 1 in both aisles were renewed in 1855: the spacious chancel Stanton Iron Works Scho::.l (mixed), built to hold 280 which is also Transitional, retains t.hree sedilia, with deeply children; averag-e attendance, 187 ; John Tyrrell, master, recessed Pointed arches and a double piscina, divided by a boys & girls; Miss Ada Cooper, infants single shaft into two trefoiled arches, with a quatrefoil in the PosT, M. 0. 0., S. B.& Annuity & InsuranceOffice.-Edward head: in the south aisle is a small piscina, and in the north Truman, receiver. Letters arrive through Nottingham a sepulchral recess : the chancel and nave are separated by a at 7.30; delivery at 8 a.m.; dispatch 7.30 p.m.; no collec­ remarkable stone screen of five cinquefoiled arches,supported tion on sundays by circular shafts of grey marble, the whole resting on a low LITTLE HALLAM is a hamlet in the parish of Ilkeston, stone wall ; the general character of this work, though pos­ from which town it is I mile south-by-west. The Ilkeston sessing some Early English features, is Decorated : on the water works, the property of the Corporation, are situated north side of the chancel is an altar tomb on two steps, with here. The separates this village from Kirk arcaded sides, bearing the effigy of a knight in chain mail, Hallam. with a tunic, and carrying on his left arm a shield with the Parish Clerk, John Fish. arms of a Cantelupe, lord of llkeston, who died c. 127s-8o, Cotmanhay, in the north ward of the borough of Ilke­ or his son William de Cantelupe, 1307 : the vestry retains a ston, together with the township of SHIPLEY, in parish chest of the Perpendicular period : in r889 the organ parish were formed into an ecclesiastical parish, 16 Dec. 1845. was rebuilt, an organ chamber added and the whole of the in­ Christ Church, erected in I847-8, is a stone building in the terior of the church thoroughly renovated, at a cost of nearly Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, £ I,OOO : there are 700 sittings. The register dates from the aisles and a western turret containing one bell : the east year 1586, but is defective between 1676 and 1679- The living window is a memorial to the Rev. E. W. Symons M. A. the is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £8r,netyearlyvalue first incumbent, who died in 1857: there are other memo­ £285, including 59 acres of glebe, in the patronage of the Duke rial windows to Alfred Miller Mundy esq. of Shipley Hall, of Rutland G. C. B. and held since IB87 by the Rev. Edwd.Muir­ d. 1877, Jane his wife, d. 1874, Maj.-Gen. Pierrepont Henry head Evans ~r.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. The Muudy R.H.A. d. I889, Robert Shorthouse (I872) and Vicarage House, which stands in a good central position, has John Henry Shorthouse (1873): a brass lectern was given lately been rebuilt. Holy Trinity church, begun in r883, was in :r878 in memory of Alfred Miller Mundy and Jane his completed in 1890 at a total cost of £s,soo, exclusive of inter­ wife: the organ was presented by A. E. M. lVIundy esq. nal fittings, and is a building of Matlock stone, consisting of of Shipley Hall, in r878, in memory of his parents; and chancel, nave, aisles, organ chamber and sacristy, but has no other valuable gifts have recently (1890) been made by Mr. tower or bell, it being considered unsafe to put much weight Mundy, Mr. C. Sebastian Smith, Mrs. Fowler and Mrs. on the ground owin~ to the underworkings of the coal mines : Thompson, of Leicester: there are 6oo sittings. The regis· the communion table is formed of a fine stone slab ro feet 9 ter dates from the year 1848. The living is a vicarage, inches long, resting on strong supports of solid oak, which gross yearly value £2oo, with residence, in the gift of A. are divided into three panels, richly carved: the brass orna­ K M. Mnndy esq. and held since I858 by the Rev. Edward ments, including a cross, candlesticks and vases were specially Thomas Stra ton Fowler M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge. designed, and executed at a cost of £so: the pulpit is of There are Baptist, Primitive Methodist and United Free carved oak, consisting of three panels, representing The Ser­ Methodist chapels. Coal is found here in abundance. The mon on the Mount, St. Paul at Athens, and St. Peter preach­ area is 2,640 acres; the population in r88r was 2,634. ing on the day of Pentecost: there are four stained windows, Parish Clerk, Thomas Davis. and the church affords 500 sittings. The living is a vicar­ age, yearly value £130, in the gift of the Bishop of South­ PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office, • well, and held since r88o by t.he Rev. John Harry Buchanan Market place (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have ~LA. of Edinburgh University. The Catholic church, dedi­ R.S.O. Derbyshire added).-Charles Potts, postmaster. cated to Our Lady and St. Thomas of Hereford, and built Letters arrive at 6 a.m. & I & 4 p.m.; dispatched at 9 & in r 862, is a plain red brick building with r8o sittings, of 10.I5 a.m. & 4, 6.10, 8.30 & 9.15 p.m which 140 are free: the mission was begun in I858. The PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Baptist chapel, Queen street, has sittings for 6oo persons; 170 Bath street.-John Woollands, receiver. LETTER Box the Christian Testament Disciples have a chapel in Belvoir cleared IO a.m. 2.30, 5.40 & 8 p.m. ; sunday, 5.40 p.m street, seating 380 ; the Congregational chapel, Market place, PosT, M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Gal· has 350 sittings, of which so are free; the Methodist New lows inn, Nottingham road. -Joseph Hodges, receiver. Connection chapel, Stamford street, seats 700; the Primitive Box cleared at 3.20 & 6 p. m. ; no collection on sun day ~Iethodist chapel, Bath street, 8oo; the Unitarian chapel, WALL LETTER BOXES.-Station road, cleared at 10 a.m. 3• Anchor row, Market place, 100; Wesley Free Methodist S·40 & 8 p. m. ; Church street, Cotmanhay, cleared at 2 & chapel, South street, 550, of which 150 are free; Ebenezer 7·IS p.m.; Cotmanhayroad, cleared at 2.15&7.30 p.m.; :Free Methodist chapel, Awsworth road, soo, of which 250 no collection at either on sundays are free; and the Wesleyan chapel, Bath street, 350, of PILLAR LETTER Box, Nottingham road, cleared at 10 a. m. which I 50 are free. The Free Methodist Mission room, Station :a.:rs & 6 p.m.; sunday, 5· IS p.m