6 March 2006
Picture published in a Consumer Magazine Alamy Ref. A10JN7 © Doug Blane
Eyam is the famous plague village which went into voluntary quarantine when the plague was imported from London in 1665 The church in the centre of the village has many relics of the Plague including Mompesson s chair gravestones of Plague victims and the Parish Register recording the deaths Within the church there is a small exhibition about the Plague The church has two Norman columns and may be built on Saxon foundations but dates mostly from the 13th and 14th centuries In the churchyard there is a magnificent Saxon cross dating from the 7th century and carved with a mixture of pagan and Christian symbols There is also a fine sundial on the wall of the church.
© Doug Blane