Church Of St Chad

The Church of St. Chad is a parish church dating from 1881, built for Joseph Paget. It is constructed of coursed squared rubble and brick with a slate roof, featuring ashlar dressings. The church displays chamfered plinth and sill bands, bargeboards, and gables topped with crosses. Windows are leaded and chamfered lancets. The building comprises a nave, chancel, north and south transepts, and a bell turret.

The buttressed nave, arranged over five bays, has four lancets to the north, and three gabled trefoiled dormers above. The west end features a triple lancet window in a 13th-century style, with timber tracery and a hood mould. The south side has five lancets and three plain dormers above. The octagonal bell turret, located to the west, has a patterned leaded base, pointed bell openings, a conical leaded and slated roof, and a weathercock.

The single-bay chancel has a triple lancet with a hood mould to the east, paired with a blind lancet above. Trefoiled gables are positioned on both sides. The buttressed north porch has a pointed doorway with a hood mould. The north transept has a lancet window on its north side, while the south transept mirrors this with a lancet and a blind lancet above. Exterior linking steps lead to the porch, supported by four ashlar piers with square domed caps, and a saddleback coped balustrade.

Inside the porch, wooden benches, a fitted wardrobe, and a common rafter roof are present. The nave exhibits matchboarded dado and a scissor-braced crown post roof, complemented by matchboard lining and a moulded wall plate. The west window contains stained glass inscribed 'To the Glory of God and in thankful remembrance of March 19 1861.' A timber screen with traceried panels separates the nave from the chancel, which also includes a rood. The chancel roof is similar to that of the nave. The east end features elaborate 14th-century style timber panelling, a moulded crest, large painted canvas panels, and crests and panels with painted text. Three icons are housed in 14th-century style surrounds. A vestry sits within the north transept, lacking architectural detail. The organ chamber in the south transept contains two framed painted canvas panels.

Notable fittings include an octagonal font on a chamfered base with an inscribed panel; a wooden cover with flying buttresses and a cross finial; a bracketed wrought iron lectern; a wrought iron skeleton pulpit with 20th-century infill panels; an altar rail with wrought iron stands; framed pitch pine seats with trefoiled ends; and matching stalls with bookstands on wrought iron legs. Memorials present include a Roll of Honour (1914), a brass referring to the bell (1955), and a brass inscription dedicated to Joseph Paget of Stuffynwood Hall and Helen Elizabeth, his wife, the builders of the church. Tradition holds that the building was initially erected at Stuffynwood, Derbyshire, in 1861, and relocated to its current site in 1881.