Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Chesterfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1992. Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- hollow-tower-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chesterfield
- Constituency
- North East Derbyshire MP: Louise Sandher-Jones (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1992
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Woodthorpe Road, Staveley
- OS grid reference
- SK 451 745
- Coordinates
- 53.26609, -1.32497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a church built in 1849, with the Duke of Devonshire as its patron. It is constructed from coursed, squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a steeply-pitched graduated slate roof. The church has a three-bay nave, a small semi-octagonal chancel, and a west bellcote, all designed in the Early English Gothic Revival style. Notable architectural features include cusped lancets with hoodmoulds, offset buttresses at each corner, and a single door beneath a double-chamfered arch with a hoodmould, along with a two-light window above. The gablet kneelers and overlapped gable copings add to its character. The bellcote is buttressed and gabled, topped with a rolled lead ridge and an east gable cross. The chancel mirrors the nave with three windows and has a hipped roof. Inside, the church retains original benches and fitments, an octagonal stone font at the east end, and two figurative memorial windows on the south side. The chancel features encaustic tilework below coloured-glass windows adorned with heraldic devices. The church was built as a Chapel of Ease at a cost of £1,700, and a chapel has been present on this site since 1632, with a bell dated 1636 hanging in the west bellcote.
Local climate
Church of St Peter receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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