These days, Boulton is almost swallowed up by Derby, but its church, though made new in the 19th century, and restored in the 20th century, has something left of Norman days. It stands in a pleasant churchyard, its porch sheltering a Norman doorway, with shafts and capitals and zigzag moulding.
A holy-water stoup of curious shape, with four outer ribs, has had its adventure after a life of 800 years for this Norman treasure was found in a farmyard.
Near the pulpit (made from an alabaster gravestone in the sanctuary and inlaid with marble) are old tiles set in the floor, one with the unusual pattern of two keys on a cross, while on two others are the heads of a king and queen, perhaps Edward I and Queen Eleanor.
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