(street & Court Lane) 
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Derbyshire Churches and Chapels
Ashford-In-The-Water Holy Trinity SK194697
The mediaeval church was almost completely rebuilt in 1868-70. Surviving features include the C13 tower and a Norman tympanum over the south door depicting a Tree of Life flanked by a lion and a pig; there is also a Jacobean pulpit and stained glass by William Morris and Burne-Jones. Hanging from the ceiling are four Virgin Crowns (funeral garlands of young maidens), the oldest dating from 1747.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 9.45am Sung Eucharist
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY, 9.00 TILL DUSK
WELL DRESSING & PATRONAL FESTIVAL: WEEK FROM TRINITY SUNDAY
(street & Court Lane) Church Web Site
Bakewell All Saints (Grade A)
SK215685
The very large, cruciform church enjoys a commanding position above the small market town. The Norman west front still survives though much of the remainder, including the unusual octagonal central tower and spire, was rebuilt or very much restored during the C19. Other architectural features of interest include the twin east windows at the end of the long chancel and the enormous south transept - almost as long as the nave - containing tombs of the Vernon family from nearby Haddon Hall.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 8.00, 10.45, 6.30
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY, 8.30-5.30
Publications: various
(public CP 200 yds - but not always easy!)
Church Web Site
Bakewell English Martyrs (RC), Buxton Road SK217687
A chapel-of-ease in lancet Gothic style, built in 1890 and served from Hassop (see below).
SUNDAY MASS: 10.30 (1st), 9.00 (other Suns)
CHURCH OPEN: MORNINGS, 9.15-10.00
(public CP) 
Bakewell Friends' Meeting House, Chapel Row, Matlock Street SK218683
The Meeting House was built in stone in 1852 and is next to the burial ground. Here the gravestones are laid flat in the grass and are all of the same style - as witness to the Friends' beliefs regarding simplicity and equality. The interior has been modernized to suit present usage, but the original Elders' bench remains.
SUNDAY WORSHIP: 10.30
CONTACT: (01629) 812712 (Bookings Clerk)
(limited amount in courtyard)
Bakewell Methodist SK217684
The Victorian Gothic former Wesleyan chapel was completely refurbished in 1992 with all modern facilities. The church itself is accessible most days since most of the rooms are in use for some purpose or other.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 10.45, 6.30
CHURCH OPEN: MOST DAYS (see above)
OPEN FOR COFFEE: MON 10.00-12.00 (LUNCHES ON BH)
CHURCH OFFICE: Thurs & Fri 9.00-11.00 Tel: (01629) 812135
Bamford St. John the Baptist, Main Road SK208834
Built in 1860 it serves the parish of Bamford and Derwent (Derwent church was submerged by the flooding of the valley to form Ladybower reservoir).
SUNDAY SERVICES: 8.00 (1st,3rd), 11.00, 6.30(2nd,4th)
CONTACT: Tel: (01433) 650215 (Vicar)
(in drive by north of church)
Baslow St. Anne (Grade 2*), A623 SK252723
Built on the bank of the river Derwent. Over 800 year old though much extended. It has some good 20th century wood carving in the chancel. A 'Victoria 1897' clock face outside.
CHURCH OPEN: 9.00 till dusk
SUNDAY SERVICES: 8.00 (1st), 9.45, 6.30(3rd)
CONTACT: Tel: (01433) 630821 (Vicar)
(in village streets)
Beeley St Anne, Church Lane SK265677
The church is at the north end of one of Chatsworth's attractive estate villages. Its Norman south door and C14 tower survived a major rebuild and then a "restoration", both in the C19.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 9.30 (weekly), 6.00 (2nd & 4th, Easter to Harvest, then 2.30) - all services BCP
CONTACT: Tel: (01629) 732651 (Mrs Grafton)
(street)
Bradwell prospered from lead mining during the C18 and C19; it also became a centre for milliners and hatters. The building of the church and vicarage in the 1860's was partly funded by Samuel Fox, inventor of the folding umbrella. Pulpit and altar rails have C18 carved panels said to have come "from a college chapel". The historic 1869 Brindley organ (recently restored) was the gift of Sir W Jackson, MP for North Derbyshire. In the churchyard is the grave of a pedlar who paid for the bells. Clearly Bradwell Church would have been much the poorer without the generosity of its C19 parishioners!
SUNDAY SERVICES: 9.15 (8.00 + 10.00 on 2nd)
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY, 9.00 TILL DUSK
OPEN FOR GALA WEEK EXHIBITION: 1st WEEK AUGUST
(street, or school yard during holidays)
The setting of the village is magnificent, with Lose Hill to the north and lying in the shadow of Peveril Castle on its high rock to the south. The exterior impression of the nave is that of the early C19 rebuilding. Once inside, however, there is still much that is venerable - the fine Norman chancel arch, the early C17 ceiling and the late C17 box pews. Most fascinating of all is the late Georgian library (visible through a locked glass door), left by a former Incumbent "to be lent out to the parishioners at the discretion of the minister". The church also possesses copies of "Vinegar" and "Breeches" Bibles.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 8.00, 11.00
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY, 9.00 TILL DUSK
GARLAND CEREMONY: LAST SAT MAY
CHURCH FESTIVAL: LAST WEEK AUGUST
(street or public CP)
Chatsworth House Private Chapel SK260703
Completed in 1694, this is an exuberant Baroque interior in the real Continental sense of the word. It is dominated by the two-storey, pedimented alabaster reredos with its painting of Doubting Thomas by Verrio. Above is the magnificent painted ceiling by Thornhill.
CHAPEL OPEN: AT HOUSE OPENING TIMES, AS ADVERTISED
Curbar All Saints Calver bridge opp. Bridge Inn SK247744
Bult in 1868, it has a simple Victorian Gothic interior.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 10.45
CONTACT: 01433 630387 (Vicar)
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY, 9.30 TILL DUSK
(street)
Edensor St Peter (Grade I) SK251699
The village - gated and walled - is utterly fascinating, being the result of an arbitrary re-siting of the community by the 6th Duke of Devonshire, who no longer wished to see the old houses from the windows of Chatsworth! The main work was carried out under Sir Joseph Paxton (of Crystal Palace fame) between 1838 and 1842, with houses, shops, stables, etc. designed in every conceivable architectural style. Eventually the parish church also was rebuilt in 1867 (but on its old site) to a magnificent design by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Retained from the earlier building was the vast C17 Baroque monument to William (1st Earl) and Henry Cavendish (both sons of Bess of Hardwick), now occupying the entire west wall of the family chapel to the south of the chancel. Also in the church is a plaque commemorating a visit by President Kennedy, whose sister, married to one of the family, died in an air crash and is buried in the churchyard. Another tomb is that of Joseph Paxton, architectural designer, and one-time Head Gardener at Chatsworth.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 10.30
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY, 9.00 TILL DUSK
COFFEE MORNING: TUES 10.00-12.00 (SUMMER)
EDENSOR DAY: NEAREST SAT TO ST PETER'S DAY (29 JUNE)
CONTACT: Tel: (01246) 582130 (Vicar)
Eyam St Lawrence, Church Street
SK218764
The C13 church, with later additions and Victorian restorations, is probably best known for its connections with the 1665-66 plague - a terrible event recalled in both church and village by numerous memorials and other reminders. The story of how Parson Mompesson quarantined the village to prevent the spread of the disease is fully documented in the church exhibition. From a much earlier era is the finely carved Saxon cross - claimed to be one of the best in England - in the churchyard, just south of the chancel.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 8.00, 10.30, 6.15
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY, 9.00-6.00 (EASTER TO OCTOBER) 9.00-4.00 (WINTER)
WELL DRESSING & PLAGUE COMMEMORATION SERVICE: LAST W/E OCTOBER
CONTACT: Tel: (01433) 630930 (Administrator) - NB Visiting school parties must make a booking
Publications: guide books in 6 other European languages
(public CP)
A tiny Victorian Gothic building of 1888. It faces a large pond and green in the middle of a small, picturesque limestone village whose houses date mostly from the C18 and C19.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 9.30 (2nd only), 3.15
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY, 10.30 TILL DUSK (SUMMER)
WELL DRESSING: LAST SUN AUGUST
Great Longstone St Giles, Church Lane (Grade I) SK200719
Most of what we see is of C14 and C15 - all very sensitively restored by Norman Shaw in 1873. It is perhaps the woodwork that is most worthy of notice: the C15 ceilings and bosses of nave, aisles and chancel, together with Shaw's sympathetic furnishings in the form of stalls, organ case and pulpit. At the east end of the south aisle is the Lady Chapel, formerly known as the Hassop Pew on account of its connection with the Eyre family of that place.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 8.00am (1st & 3rd), 11.15am (Family Service on 1st), 6.30pm
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY, 9.00-6.00
FLOWER FESTIVAL: END MAY FOR WEEK
Publication: J N Tarn, St Giles Great Longstone
(street)
Church Web Site
Grindleford St Helen, Sheffield Road SK242778
The church presents a curious aspect when viewed from the road. The imposing chancel and side chapel, both of 1910, must have been intended as the beginning of a quite ambitious structure. Clearly the project was cut short in its prime - probably on account of the Great War - and the nave was later completed in a more utilitarian manner. Worth looking at, though, for the sake of the chancel and its well designed ensemble of furnishings.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 9.30
(street)
Haddon Hall Private Chapel SK235664
In former times this was also the parish church of Nether Haddon. The original chapel was part of the C12 house; it was enlarged with the addition of aisles in the C14 and the present chancel was completed in 1427. C15 wall paintings are still visible and there are no furnishings later than C17.
CHAPEL OPEN: AT HALL OPENING TIMES, AS ADVERTISED
Hassop All Saints Chapel (RC)
SK223724
Built 1816/1818 as a private chapel for the Eyre family of Hassop Hall, this is an exquisite Classical Revival temple with an impressive pillared portico in the Etruscan style and a barrel vaulted interior. The ornate altar and reredos is said to be of French origin. In the back gallery is a gem of a chamber organ by H C Lincoln dating from the 1820's and recently restored.
SUNDAY MASS: 9.00 (1st), 10.30 (other Suns)
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY
CONTACT: Tel: (01629) 640241 (Presbytery)
(in road)
Catholic Chapels Trail
Hathersage St. Michael and All Angels (Grade 1) off School Lane, top Church Bank SK231815
A beautiful church with many historic features including 15 Eyre brasses (rubbing material for copies of these brasses available in the vestry). Most visitors will want to see the 'Little John' grave near to the main door. Charlotte Bronte wrote 'Jane Eyre' while staying in the old vicarage in 1844. Many local names and features are in the novel.
CHURCH OPEN: 8.00 till dusk
SUNDAY SERVICES: 8.00 (2nd & 4th), 9.30, 6.30 (2nd & 4th)
(north side of church)
(guide books in French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian)
(Sunday afternoons)
Hope St Peter (Grade I) SK172834
Embattled aisles, clerestory and porch indicate a systematic rebuild during the Perpendicular period. There are C13c memorials with the symbols of forest officers (or "woodroffes"). Other interesting furnishings include a 1652 pulpit and stall backs made from C17 pews. A C18 painting is of Moses and Aaron. As at nearby Castleton there is a copy of the "Breeches" Bible.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 9.30 (1st, 2nd, 3rd), 10.45 (4th), joint with other churches (5th)
CHURCH OPEN: SAT MORNING (SUMMER)
OPEN FOR WAKES WEEK: LAST WEEK JUNE / 1st WEEK JULY
(street or public CP)
Over Haddon St Anne SK204664
The limestone village, with a population of about 250, clings to the side of a steep slope, giving glorious views over Lathkill Dale - views which may perhaps be best enjoyed from the churchyard. The church itself is a small Gothic structure of 1880; a pretty, gilded sundial was erected on the south wall of the chancel in 1977.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 9.30am
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY, 8.30-5.30
(public CP 50yds) Church Web Site
Padley Padley Chapel (RC), Upper Padley (Grade I)
SK247789
This historic Chapel is reached on foot via a rough track, over the bridge from Grindleford Station (about half a mile). It is above the C15 gatehouse, all that survives intact of Padley Hall, home of a branch of the Fitzherbert family who supported the Catholic cause during the persecution years of the C16. The Chapel was restored in 1933 to commemorate the arrest in 1588 of two priests hidden in the house. Amidst the ruins to the north of the Chapel is now an open air altar around which a large pilgrimage mass takes place each year to celebrate the martyrs.
ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE: SUN NEAREST TO 12 JULY
CHAPEL OPEN: SUN & WED FROM 2.00
CONTACT: Tel: (01433) 630572
Publications: C Fitzherbert, Padley, A Short History . . . .
also pictorial guide booklet, Look at Padley, published by joint Anglican & RC churches in Hathersage
(Grindleford Station)
Catholic
Chapels Trail
Rowsley St Katherine Church Lane, Rowsley, DE4 2EA SK255661
The Church dates from 1856, Norman style.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 10.00am
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY, 9.00-5.00
CONTACTS: 01629732202 (Mr T Mellor churchwarden), 01629812999 (Mrs M Pope)
(on road) (removeable ramp)
Sheldon St Michael & All Angels
SK175689
Small Gothic church of c1865 with bellcote and apsidal chancel. The Great War made a deep impression on Sheldon: five names are recorded on the War Memorial, including that of Tony Gyte whose mother, Maria, kept a detailed and moving diary of both local and international happenings during that troubled period.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 9.00 (2nd & 4th only)
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY, 9.00-6.00
Publication: G Phizackerley, The Diaries of Maria Gyte of Sheldon, Derbyshire 1913-1920 (published by Scarthin Books, Cromford)
(street)
Church Web Site
Stoney Middleton St. Martin (Grade 2*) The Nook, north-east of A623 SK232755
15th century tower; octagonal 18th century nave.
CHURCH OPEN: 9.00 till dusk
SERVICE TIMES: 9.00
CONTACT: 01433 630387 (Vicar)
Well Dressings last week in July
(in the Nook)
Wardlow Good Shepherd SK182747
Small church of 1873 in Perpendicular Gothic style. Joined to it, making an overall T-plan, is the schoolroom with a double bellcote at the junction.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 9.00 (1st HC & 3rd Family Service)
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY, 9.00-6.00
(street)
Church Web Site