DESCRIPTION

There are unfortunately no remains of the Norman building which once stood on this site, except perhaps for a few stones incorporated within the walls of the present church which dates from 1370. In the churchyard is a cross which has stood on the site for well over 1000 years and probably marks the area in which the Norman church stood. It is from this earlier church that the font is thought to have come, being dated at 1225. It much resembles the font in St. Oswald's, Ashbourne, of which All Saints, Bradley formed a Chapelry until sometime between 1240 and 1291.

Two well known Derbyshire families have had close connections with Bradley for several hundred years. The Kniveton family held the estate well before the reign of Henry VIII but were forced to sell it after incurring debts as a result of supporting the Royalist cause during the Civil War. The estate was then held by the Meynell family with whom it remained until the late nineteenth century. Some ancient memorials to these families may be seen in the sanctuary of All Saints, although they are now barely legible.

The oldest parish register dates from 1579. Microfilms of the registers are now held at the County Record Office, Matlock, Baptisms to 1981, Burials to 1891, Marriages to 1981 (with a gap from 1783 to 1812) and Banns from 1824 to 1899.

LIST of SURNAMES from the Inscriptions

ALLCOCK	ARCHER	ASKEY	BADDER	BAGSHAW
BAILEY	BALL	BARKER	BATTLEY	BEESTON
BLORE	BOTHAM	BOWES	BROWNSWARD	BURDIS
BURTON	BYROM	CLARK(E)	CLOWES	COPESTAKE
CROOKS	DAVALL	DEAN	DERBYSHIRE	DICKINSON
DIXON	FEARN	FERNYHOUGH	FILLITER	FLINT
FORD	GAMBLE	GERARD	GOODALL	GREAVES
GREEN	GREGORY	GRIME	HALL	HALLAM
HAMMERSLEY	HARRIS	HARRISON	HARTSHORNE	HASELDINE
HAWFORD	HELLABY	HIND(S)	HOLLOWAY	HOOSON
HOUGH	IRLAM	JACKSON	JOHNSON	JONES
KENNEDY	KNIFETON	KNIGHT	LAMB	LAWTON
LECHE	LEE	LITCHFIELD	LOMAS	MASKERY
MEYNELL	MOORE	MOSS	MOTTRAM	MURFIN
MYERS	NAYLOR	OAKDEN	OLDFIELD	PARKER
PEGG(E)	PONTIN	POTTER	PRINCE	RAGSDALE
RAINS	RAVEN	REDFERN	REEVES	RICHARDS
RIDDING	SALT	SGAMBELLA (sic)	SHAW	SHERWIN
SIMMS	SIMPSON	SIMS	SINGLETON	SMALES
SMITH	SPENCER	STAFFORD	TAYLOR	THORNELY
TILL	TODD	TOMLINS	TOMLINSIN	TOWNSEND
TREVITT	TWIGG	TYSON	WALKER	WALLIS
WALTERS	WARNER	WEBSTER	WESTON	WHARTON
WIGLEY	WOLFENDEN	WOODFINE	WOODHOUSE	WOOLLEY
WRIGHT	YATES

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