Shirley Kellys

[IMG]Shirley Kellys 1891 Directory
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SHIRLEY is a township, parish and picturesque village, 4 miles south-east from Ashborne station on the Churnet Valley section of the North Staffordshire railway and north-west from Derby, in the Western division of the county, Appletree hundred, in the petty sessional division, union and county court district of Ashborne, rural dean of Ashborne, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell.The church of St. Matthew, a building of stone, situated upon an acclivity, consists or chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled tower with four pinnacles, erected in 1861. and containing 3 bells, two of which are dated 1688 : in 1842 the north aisle was added and the church refitted, the chancel arch, the only remnant of the Early Norman church, being replaced by a Pointed arch ; all the ancient parts of the church now remaining, include the south aisle and its windows, and the arcade separating it from the nave, are Decorated : the chancel retains a piscina and in the opposite wall an almery ; there is also a piscina the south aisle : the font is an octagonal work of the 15th century : such ancient monuments as remained appear to have been destroyed in the repairs or 1842 : at the east end of the north aisle is a portion of the Norman tympanum, once placed over the principal entrance : in the north aisle is a handsome marble monument to the Right Rev. W.A.Shirley, Bishop of Sodor and Man, and previously archdeacon of Derby and vicar of Shirley, d. April 21, 1847 : and in 1873 a brass was erected to the late Canon WaIter Waddington Shirley of Christ Church, Oxford : some of the communion plate is dated 1620 ; but two pieces date from the reign of Henry VIl. : the chancel, which [with the great tithes] became the property of Sir Andrew B. Walker bart. on purchasing the Osmaston estate, was redecorated by him in 1886, and there is a brass plate to that effect within the chancel : there are 200 sittings, half of which are free.