Illustration of Repton Church, Derbyshire

Illustration taken from 'Repton Church Magna Britannia : Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain', Vol 5 : Containing Derbyshire : by Rev Daniel Lysons & Samuel Lysons. 1817. This volume was grangerised by Thomas Bateman Volume VI Parochial G to Y. To grangerise a book means to illustrate it by later insertion of material, especially prints cut from other works.

The crypt of the church dates from the 8th century and is the burial place of two Mercian Kings. The village of Repton, in the south of the county of Derbyshire, was once the capital of the Kingdom of Mercia in the 7th century and the church (the first Christian church built in the Midlands), was named after St Wystan, a Mercian prince who was murdered by his brother.