Description: This parish is supposed to have been the Roman station Repandunum, and was anciently called Repington. It was once head of the Saxon kingdom of Mercia, and the burial-place of several of its rulers. The church, which is dedicated to St. Wyston, stands at the lower part of the village, elevated above the meadows; it is a large and handsome structure, principally of Norman architecture, with an elegant, perpendicular buttressed spire, forming a prominent object in the surrounding scenery. In the area seen here in front of the church is an old stone cross, terminating in a column. The cross is in the centre of Repton and reputedly where christianity was first preached in the midlands in AD653. Until the end of the 19th century regular markets and fairs took place in the area. Near the church are the remains of a priory, now converted into a school, endowed by Sir John Port, of Etwall.