Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the North East Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Church.

Church of St Peter

WRENN ID
young-clay-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North East Derbyshire
Constituency
Bolsover MP: Natalie Fleet (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1984
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Peter, Chesterfield Road, Calow
OS grid reference
SK 407 709
Coordinates
53.23408, -1.39047
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building, constructed in 1869 by S. Rollinson, with a steeple added in 1887. It is built from coursed sandstone with gritstone dressings and features steeply pitched roofs that are tiled in plain and fishscale patterns. The stone coped gables are topped with cross finials. The church has a nave with a southwest steeple and a north vestry, along with a chancel that has a polygonal apse.

The tower is supported by angle buttresses that have two set-offs, with the lower ones gableted. A pointed arch doorway on the south side features a filleted roll and a chamfer on the colonnettes, which are topped with stiff-leaf capitals. The doorway is adorned with a trefoil arch and C19 plank doors that have scrolled hinges. The west and east sides of the tower each have a low pointed-arched window with a cinquefoil, and there are single narrow lancets above on the west, east, and south sides. The bell stage transitions to an octagonal shape with broaches, featuring four tall lancet bell openings and four smaller pointed-arched openings above the broaches. The octagonal spire is decorated with lucarnes and tiny trefoil lucarnes.

On the south side of the nave, there are three two-light windows with plate tracery, separated by buttresses. The chancel includes a three-light window with plate tracery, and the polygonal apse has five lancets. A vestry is attached to the north side of the chancel, while a 20th-century vestry on the north side of the nave has a four-light window with square section mullions, along with two two-light plate traceried windows to the right. The west window features five stepped lancets within a single arch supported by colonnettes.

Inside, the church is spacious, with a scissor brace nave roof and an apse that also has a scissor brace roof. The apse features a boarded roof painted in 1901. The chancel arch responds are embellished with marble shafts and shaft rings, and the floors are tiled. A blind arcade around the apse is enriched with dogtooth detailing. Most windows contain stained glass, with the east window dating from 1900 and the chancel south window from 1911, both signed by T.F Curtis, Ward & Hughes.

Local climate

Church of St Peter receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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