Terriers and inventories

A Terrier is a list compiled by the church for the crown or Diocese listing all items of importance and property owned by the church.

We are still in the process of transcribing these records and will update as the records are completed. Terriers from 1612, 1682, 1685, 1693, 1698, 1705 and 1738 are still to be obtained and transcribed.

Edward VI's Church Goods Commissioners  report :

"Heynor.   Ser   Rychard   Arnold   Vycar.     j   chalyce   parcell Kylte j canape with a pyxe of latten—iiij bells in the steple— ij   hande   bells—j   sakering   bell—iiij   vestments—iiij   albes—ij copes, j oyrede saye, the other of rydd sylke—j corperas clothe & j  case—iij aulter cloys—ij towells—ij cruytts of pueter—j c.rysmatore—ij  crosses of latten—j holy  water slope  of brasse —j surplyce for the prest—j ratchet for the clerke."

Parliamentary  Commission of  1650  

"Heanor is a viccarage really worth twelve pounds per annum, no chappell apperteyning. Codnor Castle and Codnor 1'nrke, small things formerly distant and lying wthin the Constablerye are fit to be united. Mr. Samuell Wright is minister, an able man"

Diocesan Questionare of 1772.

To the Minister of the Parish of

SIR,

BEING desirous to obtain as particular a Knowledge as I can  of the State of my Diocese, in order to qualify myself for being more useful, I send you the following Questions under which, if you please, after making due Inquiry concerning them, to write the proper Answers, to sign them with your Name, and transmit or deliver them to me, as soon as you are able with Convenience, you will greatly assist and oblige.,

Your Loving Brother,

B. LICH and COV.

Eccleshall, April 10, 1772.

II. Are there any Papists in your Parish,. and how many, and of what Rank.? Have any Persons been lately perverted to Popery, and ,by whom, and by what Means; and how many, and who are they ? Is there any Place in your Parish, in which they assemble for Worship and where is it? Doth,any Popish Priest reside in your Parish-, or resort in it; and by what Name doth he go ? Is there any Popish School kept in your Parish? Hath any Confirmation or Visitation been lately held in your Parish by any Popish Bishop and by whom, and when and how often is that done?

III. Are there, in your Parish, any Quakers, Presbyterians, Independents, Anabaptists, Methodists, or Moravians? And how many of each Sect, and of what Rank? Have they One or more Meeting-houses in your Parish, and are they duly licensed? What are the Names of their Teachers, and are they qualified according to Law? Is their Number lessened or increased of late Years, and by what Means?

IV, Do you constantly reside upon your Cure, and in the House belonging to it? If not, where, and at what Distance  and how long in each Year are you absent  and what is the Reason of such Absence ? And have you a licensed^: Curate rending in the Parish or at what Distance from it -, and who is he? And doth he serve any other, and what Cure ? And what Salary do you allow him? And is he in Deacons or Priests' Orders?

V. Is publick Service duly performed twice every Lord's Day in your Church, and one Sermon preached? If not, what is the Reason? And on what Days besides are, Prayers read there? Is there any Chapel in your Parish -, and at what Distance from your Church? and how often are there Prayers and Sermons in it? How often, and at what Times do you catechise in your Church? Do your Parishioners duly fend their Children and Servants, who have not learned their Catechism, to be instructed by you ? And do you either expound it to .them yourself, or make use of some printed Exposition? and what is it ? Are there any Persons, who frequent publick Worship, and are not baptized ? And whence doth this proceed? How often is the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper administered ? And how many usually receive it each Time ?

VI. Is there any Free School, Hospital, or Alms-house in your Parish? And for how many, and what Sort of Persons? And who was the Founder -, and who are the Governors - and what are the Reve­nues of it? And are they carefully preserved, and employed as they ought? And are the Statutes and Ordinances made concerning it well observed?

VII. Is there any voluntary Charity School in your Parish? And for how many Boys and Girls? And how is it supported? And what are they taught? And are they also lodged, fed, or clothed? And how are they disposed of, when they leave the School?

VIII. Have any Lands or Tenements, or Tithes, or Pensions, or Sums of Money to be placed out at Interest, been given at any Times to your Church or Poor and what are they; and for what particular Uses were they given? And are they carefully preserved, and applied to those Uses and to no other?

IX.  Of what reputed yearly Value is your Cure?

X. By whom, and to what Uses is the Money given at the Offer­tory disposed of ?

XI. Is^:there any other Matter, relating to your Parish, of which it maybe proper to give me Information? And what is it ?

Diocese of Southwell

Parish of Heanor in the county of Derby.

TERRIER 1887.

A True note and terrier of all the glebes, lands and meadows, gardens, orchards, houses, stocks, implements, tenements, tithes, and other rights belonging to the Rectory and Parish Church of Heanor in the county of Derby and Diocese of Southwell, now in the use and possession of the Rev Claud Claud Evelyn Corfield M.A. Rector of the said Church, taken, made and renewed according to the old evidences and knowledge of the ancient inhabitants,, this 25th day of September A.D. 188, by the appointment of the Right Reverend Father in God, George, Lord Bishop of Southwell, and exibited at his primary visitation on the <not completed> 1887.

1. The parsonage house comprising - 1 dining room, 1 drawing room, 1 study, 1 parish room - 2 kitchens and 2 pantries on ground floor - eight bedrooms - three attic bedrooms, box room, bath room. Built on the glebe land in 1869 "It is exceedingly damp and some of the rooms being thereby almost unfit for habitation (See Dilapidation Survey 1887)

2. The outbuildings thereto, comprising - A stable with 2 stalls <illegible> Cowhouse with two cows - calf house - pig sty - coal house, knife house, copper house.

3. Other Outbuildings thereto, comprising - An old School belonging to the Rectory with stable and cow shed underneath & pig sty attached.

There are outbuildings attached to the Slack farm at Ashleyhay near Wirksworth.

4. The land belonging to the Rectory comprises -

- 1- The Rectory close - Tenant J. Slater - Wood End, Heanor

The Rectory Garden Orchard near old school - Tenant B Hardy - Heanor.

- 2 - Cottages (Loscoe Road) - Various tenants managed by a committee

- 3 - Glebe Farm at Ashleyhay near Wirksworth. Tenant Issac Buxton Sandhall and Lewis Byard both of Ashleyhay.

5. Here describe any funds invested for the benefit of the Incumbent.

-1- The commissioners (with income tax)          per ann   203   14   8

-2- Queen Anne's bounty    do                           per ann       8     4   6

-3- Tithe paid by E. M. Mundy of Shipley Hall     per ann       3

-4- Tithe paid by Butterley Company                  per ann       1   10  0

6. Marriage fees.

At the Parish Church - Due to Rector. 2/6 for banns, 2/6 at Marriage.

At St John's Church   - 2/6 for banns, 3/6 at Marriage.

7. Burial Fees.

8. The Parish clerk is entitled to the following fees :

2/6 for Wedding.

For funerals at Cemetery 1/0, 2/0, 4/0 according to class.

BELONGING TO THE PARISH ARE :

10. The Parish Church - Describe :

Tower, nave, 2 aisles, 2 side chapels, Chancel.

All except Tower rebuilt 1868.

East Window in mem Rev. F. Corfield (Rector 1866-79) erected in 1883.

Two other stained windows.

5 bells.

Also :

-1- St John's Church, Aldercar, erected [left blank]

-2- Iron Church (Marlpool /Erected 1890 Contains The old Holy Table formally used at the Parish Church.)

-3- Iron Church (Langley Mill)

Church Schools

-1- National School High St. (Girls and Infants / 1848 enlarged 1880 and 1889. Deed in safe.)

-2- Langley Mill (Boys)

-3- Aldercar (Girls and Infants)

-4- Langley Infants (1870 - Girls 1893. Conveyed to the Rector and Wardens.)

-5- Mundy St. Boys 1891 Enlarged 1892 Trust deeds in safe.

-6- Marlpool Infants 1892 (Personal property of [ILLEGIBLE]

11. Within the Church are :

1 Communion Table with coverings and various embroidered linin cloths.

1 Flagon (1886)

2 Chalices (Silver)

3 Silver Patens - another Silver paten with stand 1900.

1 Organ

1 Brass Lectern

Choir & Clergy cassocks & Curplices.

1 Illuminated list of Rectors and Vicars (from Cox's book)

1 Font Vessel made & painted at Langley Art Pottery

1 Alms dish. 6 Alms bags

Registers from 1559 comprising 15 Vols in safe at Rectory with Trust Deeds of Schools & other documents.

Parish Magazines bound [ILLEGIBLE] from 1886 comprising a regular history of parochial events also at Rectory.

St Johns Church.

1 Flagon

1 Chalice

1 Paten

1 Wood Lectern

1 Communion table with suitable cloths

Marlpool Mission Church.

Flagon, Chalice & Paten

Communion Table with suitable cloths.

Choir Surplices.

Langley Mill Church

Flagon, 2 chalices and patens.