Geoffrey de Musters (the brother-in-law of Matilda de Salicosa Mara) and Almaric de Gasci (her nephew) gave a moiety of Egginton church under Bishop Norbury’s aegis; the abbot of St Mary’s Abbey continued to supply rectors there until 1344 or 45, when the abbey acquired half of the great tithes but lost the patronage. The abbey was also given the advowson of Kirk Hallam church, and it rapidly appropriated the great tithes and founded a vicarage there. It also acquired, and probably built, the church at Stanton by Dale: there is no actual record of the gift of Stanton church to the abbey, but it has 12th and 15th century coffin lids, so it presumably functioned as a parish church. No vicarage was ever ordained there, and the church is not mentioned in the Papal Taxation of 1291 or in the Lichfield registers. It seems that it was completely within the jurisdiction of the abbot and convent of St Mary’s Abbey: the canon serving it in the 15th century was called significantly presbiter or capellanus, but not vicarious. After the suppression the church became part of Lichfield diocese: from 1553 to 1702 it had a vicar; his stipend was paid by the revenues from Derby, Elvaston, Thulston and Alvaston. In 1702 the great tithes were restored, and the incumbent then became a rector. This is recorded in the registers, where the tithes were dependent on there being each Sunday one service at Stanton and one at All Saints’, Dale Abbey; at this period the patronage was held by Lord Stanhope and the benefice was a perpetual curacy vested in two trustees appointed by Lord Stanhope. From 1969 till 1984 St Michael and All Angels, Stanton by Dale, was led by a priest-in-charge; in 1984 the current benefice which includes Risley church was created, and the incumbent became a rector.
The 18th century writer Pilkington gave the following list of early endowments of St Mary’s Abbey: four oxgangs of land in Sandiacre; three oxgangs with their appurtenances in the same liberty, and two more in Alvaston and Baletone [sic]; all the possessions excepting three acres of Jordan de Tuke in Hilton, also one oxgang with its appurtenances there; the homage and service of the men of Robert of Lexintone in Ashover; eight acres and the moor below Paystanhirst; six oxgangs with appurtenances and a messuage in Kniveton; 40 acres in Brassington; land in Hallam; two oxgangs with appurtenances and 24/8d rent in Selston and Wandesleye; ten oxgangs with appurtenances in Windley; land in Broydestone, Mushampe, Holme and Baley (two selions in Baley); the moiety of the mill at Backer with three nearby selions and the moiety of a fishery in Trent with an island; land in Michelbergh, 38 acres in Croxton, a messuage and three oxgangs in Stanton, five messuages and nine and a half acres in Derby, with all the land of Geoffrey and Maud [sic] de Salicosa Mara in Nottingham. I have not attempted to identify some of these places nor update their names. Other authorities note that St Mary’s Abbey held pasture land at Bradbourne in the Peak and land at Hilton.
The abbey was eventually to control a number of granges, the precise date of the founding of which has usually been lost. So this seems to be as good a place as any in which to give their details.