Bamford Church
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St John the Baptist church in Bamford in the Hope Valley is largely a William Butterfield restoration dating from 1861. It is a C of E church, with a bell tower.
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[edit] 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. The bells have sprung metal stays instead of the normal wooden ones. The bellringers practice on alternate Wednesdays with Hathersage church. [1]
[edit] 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.
[edit] Location
Main Road, Bamford, Hope Valley, Derbyshire, England, UK
Opposite St John's Close
[edit] See Also
[edit] References
- ^ Julie Bunting/Peak Advertiser. Church Bells.
- ^ Francis Frith. Bamford.
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