FOREMARK, a parish in the hundred of REPTON-and-GRESLEY,
county of DERBY, 6 miles (S. S. W.)
from Derby, containing, with the township of Ingleby,
203 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield
and Coventry, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and
£200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of
Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. The church, dedicated to
our Saviour, is a plain small edifice. The old parochial
church, which was an appendage to the priory at Repton,
stood in the hamlet of Ingleby, on the banks of the
Trent, about one mile to the east; but falling into
decay, the present edifice was erected by the then
possessor of Foremark, at his own expense; and consecrated
in 1662. There is a small sum for the education
of children. In the parish is a singular rocky hank,
the centre of which presenting the appearance of an
edifice in ruins, tradition asserts to have been the residence
of an anchorite, whence it has derived the name
of Anchor Church. Human bones have been dug up on
this spot; and the faint traces of a figure somewhat
sepulchral are yet left beneath the rock.