Church of St Peter

Church of St Peter, Chesterfield Road

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1335457
Date first listed:
29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter
Statutory Address:
Church of St Peter, Chesterfield Road
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1335457
Date first listed:
29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter
Statutory Address 1:
Church of St Peter, Chesterfield Road

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Church of St Peter, Chesterfield Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Derbyshire
District:
North East Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Calow
National Grid Reference:
SK 40782 70954

Details

SK 47 SW
1/2

PARISH OF CALOW
CHESTERFIELD ROAD (north side)
Church of St Peter

II
Church. 1869 by S. Rollinson, steeple added in 1887. Coursed, sandstone with gritstone dressings. Plain and fishscale tiled and slated steeply pitched roofs. Stone coped gables with cross finials. Nave with south west steeple and north vestry, chancel with polygonal apse and north vestry. Early English Style.

Tower with angle buttresses with two set offs, the lower ones gableted. Pointed arch doorway to the south with filleted roll and a chamfer on colonnettes with stiff-leaf capitals. Trefoil arch set in C19 plank doors with scrolled hinges. West and east sides with a low pointed-arched window with cinquefoil set in. Single narrow lancets above to west, east and south. Bell stage with broaches becoming octagonal. Four tall lancet bell openings and four small pointed arched openings above the broaches. Octagonal spire with lucarnes and tiny trefoil lucarnes.

South side of the nave with three two-light windows with plate tracery and buttresses between. Chancel with a three-light window with plate tracery. Polygonal apse with five lancets. Vestry attached to north side of chancel. C20 vestry attached to north side of nave with a four-light window with square section mullions. Two two-light plate traceried windows to the right. West window of five stepped lancets within a single arch with colonnettes. Spacious interior with scissor brace nave roof. Apse with scissor brace nave roof. Apse with boarded roof painted in 1901 Chancel arch responds with marble shafts and shaft rings. Tiled floors. Blind arcade around the apse enriched with dogtooth. Stained glass in most windows. East window 1900 and chancel south 1911, signed by T.F Curtis, Ward & Hughes.

Listing NGR: SK4078270954

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Legacy System number:
79350
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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