SANDIACRE, a parish in the hundred of MORLESTON-and-LITCHURCH,
county of DERBY, 9 miles (E.)
from Derby, containing 587 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction and
patronage of the Prebendary of Sandiacre in the
Cathedral Church of Lichfield, endowed with £400
royal bounty, and £1000 parliamentary grant. The
church, dedicated to St. Giles, exhibits an admixture of
the various styles of English architecture, from the
Norman downwards, though the decorated predominates,
with some slight remains of stained glass in the windows,
and in the chancel three elegant stone stalls.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
The Erewash and Derby canals form a junction near the
village, at which a market and a fair were formerly held.