Parish Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1966. Church.
Parish Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- spare-stone-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire MP: Jonathan Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church of St Peter, Church Lane, Belper
- OS grid reference
- SK 350 476
- Coordinates
- 53.02523, -1.47842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Peter is a Church of England building constructed in 1824, designed by architect Mathew Habershon, with designs exhibited at the Royal Academy that same year. It underwent restoration in 1884 and is built from local grit stone sourced from Hunger Hill Quarry. The church features a west tower, nave, sanctuary, and galleries, with a modified layout that incorporates part of the nave as a chancel. It is designed in the Decorated style, characterized by a tall, slender west tower topped with a crenellated parapet and a quatrefoil band below. The tower has angle buttresses that rise to polygonal corner turrets, and the ground floor serves as a porch entrance. The facade includes five tall, two-stage windows separated by buttresses.
Inside, there are west, north, and south galleries supported on cast iron columns. A Gothick arch spans the sanctuary, which houses wall tablets commemorating members of the Strutt family. There is also a monument to George Brettle, created in 1835 by Sir Richard Westmacott. The church is situated on a hillside, making the tower a prominent landmark in the area.
Local climate
Parish Church of St Peter receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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