TEMPLE NORMANTON, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Chesterfield sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint James the Apostle.
  
  
• The church was built in 1882 on the site of an older chapel.
  
  
• There had been a chapel here since the days of the Knights Templer in the 12th century. Their chapel was rebuilt, retaining a portion of the original builing, in 1623. That chapel stood until it was pulled down to build St. James' Church.
  
  
• The church suffered from subsidence due to coal mining and was replaced by a wooden church in 1922.
  
  
• Alas, Temple Normanton is a windy area, and wooden buildings are oft damaged by high winds. A new fibreglass replacement was erected in 1986, designed to hold up to the forces of nature.
  
  
• Nikki MAHADEVAN has a photograph of the new St. James Church at Geo-graph, taken in 2006.
• David BEVIS has a photograph of the Mortuary chapel at Geo-graph, taken in 2011.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1882. Prior entries will be gound in the registers of Chesterfield.
  
  
• 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 Chesterfield.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Chesterfield sub-district of the Chesterfield Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"TEMPLE NORMANTON, a township in the parish of Chesterfield, hundred of Scarsdale, county Derby, 2½ miles S.E. of Chesterfield, its post town, and 3 N.E. of the Clay Cross railway station. The village, which is inconsiderable, is situated on the road from Chesterfield to Mansfield, and is wholly agricultural.

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

The parish lies 155 miles north of London and covers only about 500 acres. Michael PATTERSON has a photograph of the Old 167 road at Geo-graph, taken in 2000.

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Temple Normanton 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 Temple Normanton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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History

• Most of the parish land was given over to pasturage.
  
  
• The section of Lysons' Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817, for Chesterfield, transcribed by Barbarann Ayars, includes a portion on Temple Normanton.

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient township and chapelry in Chesterfield parish in Derby county.
  
• This place became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
• This parish was partly in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the 1834 Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Chesterfield Poorlaw Union.
  

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Societies

• Chesterfield and District Family History Society - also covers Barlow, Brampton, Hasland, Newbold, Temple Normanton and Whittington.

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