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Derbyshire Churches and Chapels
Barlow (Or Great Barlow) St Lawrence SK345746
This is essentially a small church serving a rural community. It consists of Norman nave and chancel with an extended neo-Norman east end added in 1867.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 11.00
CHURCH OPEN: WEEKENDS (SUMMER)
OPEN FOR WELL DRESSING: 2ND WEEK AUGUST
CONTACT: Tel: (0114) 2890310 (Churchwarden)
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Brampton St Mark, St Mark's Road, off Springfield Avenue SK371712
A 1940 urban red brick church, uninvitingly plain from the outside, but surprisingly pleasant once you enter - the vista towards the sanctuary being particularly effective. A new wooden floor (happily not covered by carpeting) helps generate the kind of acoustics which, aided by a very effective, small modern organ, create an atmosphere that is very conducive to worship.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 8.00, 10.00
CONTACT: Tel: (01246) 234015 (Vicar)
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Brampton St Thomas, Chatsworth Road SK363706
The church started as a fairly conventional Commissioners' building of 1832. A very spacious chancel was added in 1888. The chief quality of the interior is that, although wide, it is open and free of pillars, with a large, strikingly painted ceiling. A major refurbishment has taken place during 1998/99. The organ is a large and impressive Romantic instrument by Lloyd (1906). In the churchyard a peaceful garden of remembrance has recently been created.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 9.00, 11.00, 6.30
CHURCH OPEN: MON-FRI 9.00-12.30 & 2.00-4.00 (ex WED pm) : access via office, at east end
CHURCH OFFICE: Tel: (01246) 558461
(rear of church) 
(office staff will assist/advise)
Chesterfield Annunciation (RC), Spencer Street SK380716
The architect was J A Hansom (of Hansom Cab fame) and the church was opened in 1854 by the Jesuit Fathers of Mount St Mary's, Spinkhill. The tower-like west end structure, Germanic in style, was added in 1874, shortly after which the fine and well-preserved "Father" Willis organ was installed in the new west gallery. The church contains a wealth of 19th and 20th century stained glass.
SUNDAY MASS: 8.00 9.30 11.00, 7.00
CONTACT: Tel: (01246) 232686 (Presbytery, next door)
(limited amount at rear, via Queen's Street)
(in Parish Centre)
Chesterfield Central Methodist, Saltergate SK384713
The large and impressive building dates from 1870 - a period of supreme non-conformist self-confidence. It is in Palladian style with a projecting portico, full height, with pediment and giant Ionic columns. The formerly galleried interior has recently been gutted and modernized - very tastefully, though one regrets the loss of the fine pipe organ. As part of the refurbishment the chapel floor level was raised allowing rooms (including a coffee shop) to be built underneath.
SUNDAY SERVICES:
ACCESS TO CHURCH: via coffee shop, on request
Chesterfield Elder Yard Unitarian, Elder Way
SK383712
This, the oldest surviving non-conformist chapel in Derbyshire - built in 1694 and originally Independent - is of the type (like the slightly later Chinley Chapel) that would have had the pulpit in the middle of the long side. Two refurbishments during the 19th century have resulted in it being re-orientated to the now more common longitudinal arrangement. The style of the exterior is pleasantly domestic in the late 17th century manner, with rusticated quoins and large mullion-and-transom windows. The setting is within a pleasantly leafy graveyard some of whose stones date from as early as the 1690's.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 3.00 (fortnightly)
CHAPEL OPEN: MORNINGS, MON-FRI & ALL DAY SAT
OTHER OPEN EVENTS: SAT COFFEE 9.30-12.00 & MONTHLY SAT CONCERT 12.15-1.00
CHAPEL OFFICE: Tel: (01246) 559407 (answerphone out of normal open hours)
Publication: D
Robson (revised A W Vallance), The Story of Elder Yard Unitarian
Chapel Chesterfield
(Holywell Cross public CP - 2 minutes' walk)
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Chesterfield Holy Trinity, Newbold Road SK384698
A "Commissioners'"-style church of 1838 with later C19 alterations. The Victorian interior was re-ordered and modernized in 1994. The stained glass in the east window is a memorial (1848) to George Stephenson, the railway engineer, who is buried in the church.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 10.30, 6.30
CONTACT: Tel: (01246) 273508 (Vicar)
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Chesterfield St Mary & All Saints, St Mary's Gate (Grade A)
SK385712
With its famous "crooked" spire this is the largest church building in Derbyshire, cruciform in plan and dating mostly from the 13th and 14th centuries. The spire ("twisted" is perhaps a better word for it) was added about 1400, is 228 feet high and, at its apex, leans as much as nine feet out of true. The importance of the church and town in the middle ages is reflected in the multiplicity of guild chapels at the east end of the choir and transepts. Some blackened interior stonework still reminds us of the 1961 fire in the north transept which destroyed the historic Snetzler organ.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 8.00, 10.30, 6.30
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY, 9.00-5.30
CONTACT: Tel: (01246) 206506 (Verger)
Gift shop: 10.00-4.00 (NB foreign language guides in preparation)
Coffee shop The Saints (to south of churchyard, in St Mary's Gate): 10.00-4.00 (not Wed or Sun)
Publications: various
(public CP's nearby)
(in coffee shop)
Parish Web Site
Clay Cross St Bartholomew, High Street SK391633
By H I Stevens, 1851, with a tall broach-spire visible over a wide area. The site offers good views westwards over the Amber Valley and Ogston Reservoir. In the south aisle is some Victorian glass to a Burne-Jones design representing Saints John, Peter and James. Out in the churchyard there is the ancient base of a stone cross after which the town was named.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 10.00, 6.00
CONTACT: Tel: (01246) 851193 (Miss Hamblin) or (01246) 866021 (Verger)
OPEN FOR MINI-MARKET: 1ST SAT June, 9.00-11.00
Dronfield St John The Baptist, Church Street (Grade I) SK353783
This must be one of the least well known of the great churches in our County. What we have is a church of Norman origin transformed on a grand scale during the C14 and C15. The glory, of course, is the great chancel - slightly earlier than that of Tideswell: early C14 and still in Decorated Gothic style. What is sad is that, soon after the Reformation, the chancel became ruinous and the tracery of the enormous east window fell out and was replaced by straight-line vertical and horizontal bars. Even so, there is still some C14 glass in one of the south windows, a C14 sedilia and choir stalls (with misericords) dating from the C15. Of a later date is the altar reredos carved by Advent Hunstone a fine Jacobean pulpit and there are over 120 monumental brasses, the earliest being of a Rector and Chantry Priest (1399).
SUNDAY SERVICES: 8.00, 9.30, 11.15, 6.30
CHURCH OPEN: DAILY
Publication: Dronfield Parish Church
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Dronfield (Holmesdale) St Philip, Falcon Road SK364792
A 1960's church rebuilt and refurbished to modern standards in 1994. The premises are now in use much of the time during which access to the church should be possible.
SUNDAY SERVICE: 10.00
CHURCH OPEN: WHEN PREMISES IN USE
CONTACT: Tel: (01246) 413893 (Incumbent)
(in school CP out of hours)
The church is by H I Stevens, 1853, and was restored by Butterfield in the 1880's. It replaced an older church lower down the hill. The present building, in Decorated Gothic style with a landmark spire, is at the top NE corner of the village, giving good views over the surrounding countryside. It has a fine collection of Victorian glass. The village itself, with several thatched cottages, is picturesque and quiet, having been by-passed by main roads.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 8.00 (1st), 6.30
FLOWER FESTIVAL: DURING VILLAGE WELL DRESSING, 3RD WEEK JUNE
CONTACT: Tel: (01246) 850339 (Vicar)
Publication: J E Milner, The Two Churches of Heath
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North Wingfield St Lawrence, St Lawrence Road (Grade
I)
SK404645
The church enjoys a commanding hill site overlooking (northwards) the uppermost reaches of the River Rother; its magnificent C15 tower, 80 feet high, is a well known landmark. The north transept has an elaborately moulded Norman window; apart from this the general body of the church is C15 with a C14 chancel. In the ceiling are C14 tie-beams with carved trefoil tracery. Restoration during the C19 included the rebuilding of the south aisle in 1860. A superb piece of C20 woodwork may be seen in the screen, in the manner of a C15 rood loft with fan-vaulting on the under side; it is by Sir Thomas Jackson (1917).
SUNDAY SERVICES: 10.00, 6.00
CONTACT: Tel: (01246) 851181 (Rector) or (01246) 852281 (Parish Office)
Pilsley St Mary The Virgin, Church Street SK432662
Built in 1873 the church has a chancel, nave and large south aisle; there is a bellcote with spirelet. An interesting window design is The Creation in the south aisle.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 8.30 (1st & 3rd only), 10.00
CONTACT: Tel: (01773) 590529 (Incumbent)
Whittington (Or Old Whittington) St Bartholomew, Church St. North SK384752
This is a church that presents itself well and has produced helpful printed itineraries for visitors. Its fortunes have been mixed: the mediaeval church was replaced by a new one in 1863. This was fairly conventional, with lean-to aisles and small clerestory windows; its distinguishing feature was the tower at the SW corner surmounted by a high spire. A fire in 1895 left the nave but a shell. The following year, having been rebuilt, the church was re-opened - but this time with larger clerestory windows and, consequently, a higher roof line, reaching up now to the base of the spire (which had survived the fire). There is much stone and wood carving of quality together with interesting stained glass - all fully described in the guide book.
SUNDAY SERVICES: 8.00 (2nd & 4th), 10.30, 6.30 (4.00 in winter)
FLOWER FESTIVAL: JUNE
CONTACT: Tel: (01246) 450651 (Rector)
Publications: S W Stones, The Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew Whittington
also a helpful leaflet, A Walk around the Parish Church of St Bartholomew's Old Whittington
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