St Michael and All Angels Church, Brimington is in Brimington, Chesterfield, Churches in Derbyshire.
St Michael and All Angels Church, Brimington [Map] was built in 1847 by Joseph Mitchell, architect of Sheffield. In 1891 the chancel was refurbished by the partnership of John Naylor and George Sale, architects of Derby. During the medieval period the site was a chapel of ease with the parish church being Chesterfield. In 1796, the old church of St Michael and All Angels was demolished and replaced at the expense of Joseph Jebb with a new building, of which only the tower survives. The churchyard and rectory are immediately adjacent to the church.
Memorial at St Michael and All Angels Church, Brimington [Map] to James William Chapman of the 73rd Field Company Royal Engineers who fell in action on 17th August 1916 aged twenty during the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial.
WWI Memorial representing Victory by Charles Sargeant Jagger [aged 34] at St Michael and All Angels Church, Brimington [Map]. The monument has been moved from its original position following the theft of its plinth.
Charles Sargeant Jagger: On 17th December 1885 he was born. All Saints' Church, Brocklesby [Map]. After 1914. Memorial to Henry Anderson 1465-1520 sculpted by Charles Sargeant Jagger. Inscription: "Vincit Amor Patrae. To the glory of God and in memory of Charles Sackville Pelham Lord Worsley Lieutenant Royal Horse Guards who fell at Zandvoorde 30th October 1914 aged 27. This monument erected by his sorrowing family and the tenantry of the estate. He died as few men get the chance to die fighting to save a world's morality he died the noblest death a man may die fighting for god and right and liberty and such a death is immortality. On 16th November 1934 he died.
Memorial at St Michael and All Angels Church, Brimington [Map] to Alfred and Rosanna Hukin, and Cissie their daughter, and in whose memory Electric Light was installed in the church.
December 1927. Memorial at St Michael and All Angels Church, Brimington [Map] to William Augustus Dutton, Rector 1909-1925.
1932. Window at St Michael and All Angels Church, Brimington [Map] in memory of Walter Burr who was churchwarden for seventeen years. Window by Abbot and Co. of Lancaster.
1935. Memorial at St Michael and All Angels Church, Brimington [Map] to Annie Fisher by whose gift the tower was restored.
Interior of St Michael and All Angels Church, Brimington [Map].
Chancel of St Michael and All Angels Church, Brimington [Map].
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2009 window at St Michael and All Angels Church, Brimington [Map] by Jospeh Nuttgens in memory of Abigail Noble who died in 2007.
