Lt. Colonel Robert Duckenfield
(1619-1689)

The Church of St Lawrence. Built early Sixteenth Century and originally dedicated to St James until the discovery in the mid-nineteenth century of a stained glass window to St Lawrence. Affectionately known as 'Th' Owd Peg' because its framework was fastened together with wooden pegs. Resting place of John Angier, the famous Puritan divine and of Colonel Robert Duckenfield, Tameside's Civil War hero.

St Lawrence's Church, Denton, United Kingdom where they was

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Duckenfield 1619-1689 Robert Duckenfield of Dukinfield Hall, a man of great Puritan faith, distinguished himself in battle for the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War. In 1651 he commanded the forces which secured the Isle of Man and in 1653 was appointed to Cromwell's "Little Parliament"

Town Hall, Dukinfield, United Kingdom where they was