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Church of St Peter

A Grade II Listed Building in Calow, Derbyshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2341 / 53°14'2"N

Longitude: -1.3905 / 1°23'25"W

OS Eastings: 440782

OS Northings: 370954

OS Grid: SK407709

Mapcode National: GBR 7BM.980

Mapcode Global: WHDF9.MZ22

Plus Code: 9C5W6JM5+JR

Entry Name: Church of St Peter

Listing Date: 29 August 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1335457

English Heritage Legacy ID: 79350

ID on this website: 101335457

Location: St Peter's Church, Calow, North East Derbyshire, S44

County: Derbyshire

District: North East Derbyshire

Civil Parish: Calow

Built-Up Area: Chesterfield

Traditional County: Derbyshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Derbyshire

Church of England Parish: Calow St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Derby

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Description


SK 47 SW
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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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