Bamford Church
St John the Baptist church | |
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St John the Baptist
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Basic information | |
Location | Bamford |
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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.
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. The churchyard contains war graves from World War I of two male soldiers, a female member of Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps and a Royal Air Force airman.[3]
Location
Main Road, Bamford, Hope Valley, Derbyshire, England, UK
Opposite St John's Close