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St Anne's Church was converted to a school following the completion of the new Buxton parish church of St John the Baptist in 1811. It was then used as a Sunday school and as a mortuary chapel. The church was later closed before being reinstated for church services in 1885. [3]
The school was founded in 1675 by an amalgamation of various legacies of an earlier date together with subscriptions taken then. Its motto was Sic Luceat Lux Vestra – "Let your light shine forth." The original school building was probably in Buxton next to St Anne's Anglican Church on Bath Road. The school was placed in chancery between 1791 ...
The Victorian diarist Anne Lister recounts her visit to Buxton during August 1816 in her journal. [136] Buxton's St Ann's Well and Poole's Cavern were listed as two of the Seven Wonders of the Peak, in Thomas Hobbes's 17th-century book De Mirabilibus Pecci: Being the Wonders of the Peak in Darby-shire, commonly called The Devil's Arse of Peak ...
St Anne's CE Primary School, Baslow; St Anne's RC Academy, Buxton; St Charles' RC Primary Academy, Hadfield; St Edward's RC Academy, Swadlincote; St Elizabeth's RC Academy, Belper; St George's CE Primary School, Church Gresley; St George's CE Primary School, New Mills; St Giles CE Primary School, Killamarsh; St Giles CE Primary School, Matlock ...
St Anne's Drinking Well in 1784. St Ann's Well was declared to be public property by the Buxton Inclosure Act 1772 (12 Geo. 3. c. 27 Pr.), with an obligation for it to be maintained in good condition. Each Easter week the parish Vestry appointed a poor woman as the 'Well Woman' to take care of the well and to help those taking the water. Martha ...
St John's Church became the town's new Anglican church (for the growing numbers of residents and visitors, close to the popular spa baths), succeeding St Anne's Church in Higher Buxton, which was later converted into a school. St John's initially served the parish of Fairfield until the parish of Buxton was created in 1898. [4] The church is ...
Brooks School (North Andover) Buxton School (Williamstown) Cambridge School of Weston; ... St. Anne's-Belfield School (Charlottesville) St. Margaret's School ...
Buxton is a spa town in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England.The town contains 93 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England.Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, seven are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.