Stydd nr. Yeaveley

INFORMATION

FontID: 01563STI
Church/Chapel: [chapel of the former preceptory of St. Mary and St. John the Baptist]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Stydd Ln, Ribchester, Preston PR3 3XS, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1254 878352
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near Ashbourne
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
Bagshaw (1846) reports a former preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers "dedicated to St. Mary and St. John the Baptist […] The chapel has long been a ruin. A small portion of the wall and font still remain." A letter to The Gentleman's Magazine (1865) reports "a visit to Stydd, near Ashbourne, where are the remains of a chapel [...] in the style of the thirteenth century [...] Near these ruins and of the same date is a curious font, now used as a flower stand". The author further notes that this building is supposed to have belonged to the hospital of Yeaveley, where there was formerly a hermitage -later preceptory?- given in the reign of Richard II [1377+] to the Knights Hospitallers.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.8189, -2.5273
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 49′ 8.04″ N, 2° 31′ 38.28″ W
UTM: 30U 531119 5963476

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

REFERENCES

Bagshaw, Samuel, History, gazetteer and directory of Derbyshire, with the town of Burton-upon-Trent […], Sheffield: printed for the author by William Saxton […], 1846
Peak, T. Lindsey, "Stydd", (1865), pt. II, The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer, 1865, pp. 266; r["References"]