Anchor Church Investigation

An Investigation at a Derbyshire cave known as Anchor Church, which we hiked too and conducted a paranormal investigation, which was during our Paracamp weekender.
Is this place haunted? many paranormal investigators believe so.

This cave lies between Ingleby and Foremark. This grade II listed cave Anchor Church: The refuge of a 9th-century royal religious recluse?

The rock-cut remains of Anchor Church, near Foremark in Derbyshire, have long been identified as an 18th-century folly. Recent analysis of the cave’s architectural features, though, has revealed clues to a possible early medieval origin for the site.
Sir Robert Burdett (1716-1797), was a particularly keen visitor to the site, which lay close to (though outside the grounds of) his Palladian mansion, Foremark Hall. A painting by Thomas Smith of Derby, completed in 1745, shows one such gathering, with well-dressed ladies and gentlemen enjoying the cave while a man plays the flute. In his 1899 account Repton and Its Neighbourhood, F C Hipkins also describes the site as Sir Robert’s ‘favourite retreat’, noting that he ‘had it fitted up so that he and his friends could dine within its cool and romantic cells’. Traces of these modifications can still be seen today – but recently published research by Wessex Archaeology and the Royal Agricultural University’s newly formed Cultural Heritage Institute suggests that the space’s origins may be as much as 1,000 years earlier.

The ‘anchor’ in its name is not a maritime The ‘anchor’ in its name is not a maritime reference, but speaks of the cave being inhabited by an anchorite, or religious recluse, during the medieval period. speaks of the cave being inhabited by an anchorite, or religious recluse, during the medieval period, a hermitage.

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