New Hotel Will Stand Where Old ; Plans to Build a 205-Bedroomed Jury's Inn On a Site Once Part- Occupied by Derby's Ancient St Alkmund's Church Prompted Maxwell Craven to Delve Into the History of Derby's Oldest Church and Some of the Interesting Facts Uncovered During Excavation of the Site Prior to Its Demolition and the More Recent Hotel Development.

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Plans to build a 205-bedroomed Jury's Inn on a site once part- occupied by Derby's ancient St Alkmund's Church prompted Maxwell Craven to delve into the history of Derby's oldest church and some of the interesting facts uncovered during excavation of the site prior to its demolition and the more recent hotel development.

Reading about the plans to put a Jury's Inn hotel on the empty site between St Mary's Church and Queen Street prompted me to write about the former church of St Alkmund's Church which occupied part of the site before the Inner Ring Road necessitated its removal.

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New Hotel Will Stand Where Old ; Plans to Build a 205-Bedroomed Jury's Inn On a Site Once Part- Occupied by Derby's Ancient St Alkmund's Church Prompted Maxwell Craven to Delve Into the History of Derby's Oldest Church and Some of the Interesting Facts Uncovered During Excavation of the Site Prior to Its Demolition and the More Recent Hotel Development.

John Cadwallader of Cityscape claims the hotel will "bring an active and vibrant use to the Cathedral quarter" and that it will not block the "view of key city buildings" - which, in fact it will.

The Jury's Inn lady claimed that...

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