Barlow - by Daniel and Samuel Lysons, 1817

Transcription by Barbarann AYARS © 2001
[Lyson's Magna Britannia Vol 5 Derbyshire, page 267 and 268]

BARLOW: The parochial chapel of Barlow, and appendage of Stavely, lies about six miles and a half from Stavely, (from which parish it is detached by the intervention of the parish of Whittington), and between three and four miles from Chesterfield. The manor of Barlow was held with Stavely by the Musards. It was afterwards in the ancient family of Abitot; a branch of which, on settling at Barlow, is supposed to have taken their name from that place. This family of Barlow, or Barley, possessed it for several generations. James Barlow, Esq. sold it in 1593 to George, Earl of Shrewsbury. The Earl of Newcastle purchased it of the Shrewsbury family in the reign of James or Charles I. Having passed by descent to his Grace the Duke of Portland, it was, in 1813, exchanged with the Duke of Rutland for the manor of Whitwell.

In the chapel is the tomb of Robert Barley, Esq., 1464.: there were other memorials of this ancient family, but the dates, and the greater part of the inscriptions, are either obliterated or concealed.

The chapel was augmented with Queen Anne's Bounty in 1725, when Edward Earl of Oxford gave a rent-charge of 10 £ per annum. The rector of Stavely appoints the minister.

In 1752, Susanna Stevenson gave the sum of 40 £ (since laid out in land) for teaching five boys of this chapelry. We are informed that the present endowment of the school consists of the moiety of a piece of land which lets for 6 £ per annum, a dwelling-house adjoining the school, with half an acre of land, and seven guineas per annum given by the Duke of Rutland.

[From Lysons Topographical and Historical Account of Derbyshire, 1817.
Transcription kindly donated by Barbarann Ayars, 10th Jan 2001]