ROSLISTON, Derbyshire
Church History
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin.
- The church was built in 1819.
- The church tower and spire are from a much older chapel that stood on this site from the 14th century.
- The church seats 50.
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Church Records
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1568.
- We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials in a text file for your review. Your additions are welcomed.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Repton.
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Description and Travel
"ROSLISTON is a parish (having no dependent town-ship), in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, 4 miles and a half S.W. from Burton-upon-Trent. The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, was rebuilt by subscription in 1827; the living is a curacy, subordinate to the rectory of Walton-upon-Trent. The parish contained, in 1831, 360 persons, being one more inhabitant than it contained, at the census taken in 1821."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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Directories
- Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Rosliston entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Rosliston from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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Politics and Government
- This parish was in the ancient Repton and Greasley Hundred (or Wapentake).