This map is church as it was in 1876 just before the demolition of the majority of the church. Please click on a number or scroll down to find a description of the labeled items.
1 : This window was recorded in the 1600 as containing stained glass with the arms of the house of Grey (Barry of six, arg. and az) When the church was rebuilt the high table used was donated to the Iron church which later became Marlpool All Saints.
2: This window had contained stained glass with the arms of Strelley (Paly of six, arg. and az.). The Strelley's held a manor in Shipley a nearby village from the 1400-1600's.
3: This window contained stained glass of two knights holding up two of the coats of arms of the Greys.
4: Above this point in the clerestory window contained stained glass of a knight kneeling with a coat of arms on his surcoate and with the coat of arms in front of him.
5: This window contained stained glass with three differing coat of arms of the Grey family.
6: This window by the pulpit contained stained glass with the coats of arms of Grey and of Zouch.
7: In the sixteenth century the belfry contained a stained glass window with three gold cups and below them "Orate pro anima Jacoci Coupland".
8: In this window had been a stained glass window with "a bishop with a miter on his head and a crosier in his right end, and before him kneeling a man in armour, bard headed, with a close sur cote of the armes of Grey. Betwixt which bishop and the knight is this helm and crest"
9: These stairs led to the gallery above the nave of the church. This location was late in the life of the gallery as the earlier staircase was in 9b. The gallery had an inscription reading "This Loft was built at the sole cost of John Clarke, of Codnor, gent., in the year 1633, who dyed Ano Dni AEtatis 88"
It is believed that somewhere in this location was the of the hatchment to the Ray family. Click here to find out more about it and how it came to be there.
Between this area of the Tower and the nave are two Medieval Corbals supporting the arch of the tower, both pulling faces at the other. Click here to see them.
10: This was the approximate location to the step to the vault of the Mudy family.
11: The original location of the Watson memorial would have been against this wall.
12: These arched were very old and grand and their loss by the rebuilding was much regretted.
14: It is unknown if the porch was an original part of the medieval church. By the time the first of the Corfield family to be vicar of Heanor it had certainly either been built or rebuilt in the Georgian era as his son later commented on it "The porch of Heanor old church was a hideous classical structure if the Georgian period, with a round arched outer doorway, adorned with a projecting wedge-shaped "Keystone", and corresponding "risers" " - From Archeological gleanings in the neighborhood of Codnor castle by F Channer Corfield J.P.
15: Part way up the tower is the window providing light to the bell ringing room. During the period between 1600-1870 the original church clock projected from this window with a single skeleton dial.
16: This would be the approximate location where the entrance to the Knights De Grey vault were found.
17: The original location of the Unknown memorial.
18: The original location of the Royston memorial.
19: The original location of the Clarke memorial.
20: The original location of the Dowager Baroness Mundy memorial.
21: The in this rough area were three memorials to the members of the Mundy family.
22: The original location of the Colclough memorial.
23: The original location of the Wooley memorial.
24: The original location of the Watson memorial.
25: The original location of the Sutton memorial.
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