Bamford Church

Bamford Church
St John the Baptist church

St John the Baptist

Bamford Church is located in Derbyshire
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Basic information
Location Bamford
Geographic coordinates 53°20′53″N 1°41′37″W / 53.34800°N 1.69352°W / 53.34800; -1.69352Coordinates: 53°20′53″N 1°41′37″W / 53.34800°N 1.69352°W / 53.34800; -1.69352
Affiliation Anglican
District Diocese of Derby
Ecclesiastical or organizational status Parish church
Architectural description
Architectural type Church
Completed 1861
Specifications

St John the Baptist church is a C of E church in Bamford in the Hope Valley, Derbyshire, England. The building that is seen today is largely a William Butterfield restoration dating from 1861, with a bell tower.

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The Bells and Tower

The tower has six ringable bells, cast in 1998 to mark the Millennium. They replaced a peal from 1886. The modern bells have sprung metal stays instead of wooden ones. The Treble weighs 1 hundredweight (50 kg). The bellringers practice on Wednesdays. [1]

The Churchyard

Exhumations from the cemetery of the village of Derwent were re-interred in St John's churchyard after the construction of the Ladybower Dam submerged that village during the Second World War.[2] Also in the graveyard is a grave marking the dead from Tin Town (Birchinlee), a temporary village made to house the workers who built the Derwent and the Howden dams in 1902. There is also a memorial for the dead of the Holocaust.

Location

Main Road, Bamford, Hope Valley, Derbyshire, England, UK

Opposite St John's Close

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