St John the Baptist, Staveley
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St John the Baptist, Staveley
Image: © Neil Theasby Taken: 21 Mar 2014
A remarkably large church which clearly underwent a series of extensions in past centuries. The church boasts a Norman font, mediaeval brasses, one of the largest mediaeval altar-stones still surviving, a rare seventeenth century window with painted heraldic glass, and significant twentieth-century sculpture. There are shrines to Our Lady and St John the Baptist, and a memorial to the miners killed in the Markham Colliery disasters in the 1930's, presided over by St Michael the Archangel, patron of those who work in dangerous places, and lit by a single miner's lamp which burns continuously.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.268967
Longitude
-1.351477