These are a few photographs from a visit to Elvaston Parish Church on Wednesday evening 4th May 2011, with members of Aston on Trent Local History Group.
Dramitically lit organ loft
Musket ball holes in the north wall of the church. Fired by Cromwell's parliamentarians
Carved fronts in the choir stalls
Carved lid of an oak chest
Paneling at the front of the pulpit
Harrington crest on the entrance to a under floor vault
Jane Lady Crawford's vault in the nave
Linenfold carved cupboards in the vestry
On the south side of the chancel is a beautifully-executed recumbent figure, by Westmacott, of Algernon Russell Gayleard Stanhope, who died in 1847, aged nine years.
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