Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the Bolsover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1965. A Georgian Church.
Church of St Peter
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolsover
- Constituency
- Bolsover MP: Natalie Fleet (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1965
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Elmton with Creswell
- OS grid reference
- SK 502 734
- Coordinates
- 53.25572, -1.24802
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a parish church built in 1773, constructed from sandstone ashlar with hipped and gabled Welsh slate roofs. The building features stone-coped gables with moulded kneelers and a moulded dentil eaves cornice that continues around the tower. The west tower is partly engaged by the nave and rises only slightly above the nave roof, featuring a pitched roof with plain gable ends and a moulded eaves cornice.
The south doorway is adorned with a moulded architrave, a bolection moulded frieze, and a cornice, and it has a pair of 19th-century plank doors. Above the doorway is a blind lunette with radiating voussoirs. The tower includes a louvred circular bell-opening, while the west side has a tall round-arched window with a moulded arch set within a blind round-arched recess, and a circular louvred bell-opening above it. To the north, there is a 20th-century brick boiler house and chimney, which is not of special interest, along with a blind rectangular window.
The north side of the nave features three tall blind round arches and a cornice without dentils. A square projecting vestry has a doorway to the west and a stepped round-arched window to the east, complete with a moulded keystone. The chancel has a hipped roof and a canted apse at the east end, which includes a central round-arched window with a moulded arch and impost blocks, set within a blind round arch. There is a similar window on the south side of the chancel and three similar windows on the south side of the nave, all with radiating voussoirs.
Inside, the church has a plain plastered interior with a flat ceiling. A circular font rests on an octagonal base, and there is an 18th-century pulpit featuring raised and fielded panels, fluted pilasters, and a tester. The chancel arch is plain and round-arched, and the chancel ceiling is painted. The communion rails are designed with turned balusters.
Local climate
Church of St Peter receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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